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The end of Reddit? Why the blackout is still going – and what happens next
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this post was submitted on 14 Jun 2023
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This is not the end of reddit. It is just a hiccup for them as they go public. But the protests was a good opportunity for folks to learn about alternatives. I certainly didn't know alternatives existed. I'm glad to have found fediverse. I fully support the idea and want to see it grow.
It may not “end” Reddit but I do think this will end Reddit as we know it. It will just be a shell of itself just like Facebook is no longer a place for college friends to connect and share photos.
I used scripts like PowerDeleteSuite to overwrite my account data there, not everyone will do this but if people really want to see reddit's grip on the internet dissolved that's what they'll need to commit to doing, as painful as it is. And probably sooner than later, as I would not be surprised if Reddit eventually blocks the use of scripts like PDS (there's already a rate limit).
Reddit's seeming invincibility is tied to the content that users created for them and the fact that they have served as a repository for all manner of knowledge over the last few decades. To my mind they've abused that privilege and, not to sound too grandiose, I see it as a responsibility to revoke access to the content I provided them.
Hopefully people generally learn the lesson about centralizing everything in this way. Perhaps its best to not have a front page to the Internet at all.
Yes I did the same. I used redact on my 14 year old account and edited all my comments and posts saying “removed due to Reddit’s new api policy”
Yeah, I like that you can overwrite with a message, rather than just delete. I left a link to PowerDeleteSuite in each comment.
Though I did notice that I needed to go community by community using the filter option to get the edit to apply consistently.
So just a word to anyone going to use this tool; it might require a few passes spaced out by a couple minutes depending on how many comments and such you have on your account.
If I want to nuke my reddit account. I'll just do a GDPR request for my data to be deleted.