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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Lumidaub@feddit.de to c/mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world

A screenshot, taken way before rexxit, of two comments on reddit, dated "1 year ago".

The first comment is by a deleted user and the comment has been removed. The second comment is a reply to the deleted comment and it says: "That solved it. Thanks!"

Edit: added temporal context.

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[-] Woozy@lemmy.fmhy.ml 157 points 1 year ago

This is why I'm not deleting my reddit posts and comments. It's not worth making the whole world a tiny bit worse just to punish one company.

[-] ptz@dubvee.org 155 points 1 year ago

I respect that, and if Reddit had handled the situation differently, I'd be inclined to agree. But I just do not want them profiting off of my contributions when they've shown such utter contempt for their user base and moderators.

[-] Kill_joy@kbin.social 89 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Why does one single corporation get sole ownership of your knowledge?

It's not difficult to download what you have contributed to Reddit and to post elsewhere.

Your knowledge belongs to you, you have the right to take it with you when you leave.

Of course you have the right to be lazy and not do that. Or to say, "I am fine with leaving it for Reddit to sell".

But please don't attempt to belittle or minimize the efforts of those who are trying to make a stand.

You are acting like they are doing something wrong ("making the world smaller") when they are simply deciding that their knowledge will not be monetized by a corporation.

[-] SketchySeaBeast@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 year ago

It’s not difficult to download what you have contributed to Reddit and to post elsewhere.

If you believe that what you've learned is of value you have to both consider what you're saying and who can see it. If it's valuable Reddit is far more discoverable than a corner of the internet. It's not a matter necessarily of being "lazy", it's weighing the medium with the message.

[-] spiderman@lemmy.fmhy.ml 13 points 1 year ago

It's not difficult to download what you have contributed to Reddit and to post somewhere.

It's not easy either. Reddit sometimes has a particular set of posts that solve queries that are not even answered in stack overflow.

Reddit may have did a massive asshole move, but deleting those things might make things difficult only for people who seek the knowledge, not reddit.

[-] reverie@lemmy.world 57 points 1 year ago

Is ensuring an information monopoly for an unethical, profit-above-else driven corporation making the world better?

[-] OreganoChampion@sh.itjust.works 41 points 1 year ago

Saving the important posts, posting the question and answer to lemmy and then deleting those posts imo would be the most optimal solution. At least the information is available somewhere and not punishing people looking for answers to their queries.

[-] smort@feddit.nl 14 points 1 year ago

Are Lemmy posts discoverable from normal search engines? If not, then it’s about as useful as the information posted in some obscure Discord chat

[-] formatc@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 year ago

If Lemmy becomes the go-to place where the knowledge resides, “regular” search engines will adapt to index communities across the instances.

[-] newIdentity@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

But it's the obscure questions that need to be saved

[-] Lumidaub@feddit.de 36 points 1 year ago

I never posted anything worth preserving over there so my choice was clear lel

[-] ThatWeirdGuy1001@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

lel

Fuck have we really gone that far back? We'll be back to saying kek before too long at this rate

[-] Stillhart@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago
[-] baked_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago
[-] Stillhart@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I've never seen that before and I thank you for correcting that. <3

...least I got chicken!

[-] Lumidaub@feddit.de 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm just old and set in my ways.

[-] cloudgazing@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I'm more of a kekw guy. RIP El Risitas

[-] Obi@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

Bring back the kek!

[-] Surreal@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

4chan is still saying kek

[-] Rhaedas@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

Maybe you didn't. But maybe there was that one thing that was stupid and meaningless to you that someone found great, and others might have also. I respect whatever decision you made though, I understand both sides. It should never have come to the point of people having to make such choices in anger and protest. For money.

[-] Bradamir@kbin.social 18 points 1 year ago

Na, they need to be punished and by extension the world can hate Reddit over it.

Also there is that website that lets you see deleted content.

Still many people don’t know about the caching google does or archive.org unfortunately.

[-] Matharl@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

Export your Reddit posts and comments, repost them on another platform like Lemmy then delete everything.

Keeping your data on Reddit makes it still worth using and help them.

[-] jerrimu@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Same I do a lot of tech support and noob assistance.

[-] Patariki@feddit.nl 7 points 1 year ago

Exactly, it's like people burning the library of Alexandria again. And in some cases it doesnt stop traffic. The post with question will often stay. Just removing something because you don't like someone's actions... Sounds just like u/spez. And so they've become the thing they vowed to destroy.

[-] moon_matter@kbin.social 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Devil's advocate. There's no such thing as an effective protest that doesn't inconvenience the public. I've heard people say the exact same thing about the blackouts. This protest would not have worked if people could use Reddit normally and totally ignore what was going on. Unlike most protests, none of this does any harm to people IRL so I think people should be OK with being heavy-handed. It's "oh no, I can't access reddit to help figure out how to fix my wifi" vs "protests are blocking me on my way to work, causing me to be late and possibly be fired". The situations just don't compare.

Beyond that, Reddit has replaced all forums and discussion boards and it's actually a huge problem in terms of being a single point of failure. It's a net positive that this issue was highlighted for the non-tech crowd.

[-] princessnorah 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Except, it’s not like burning the Library of Alexandria again, because you can find most of those old posts on The Internet Archive. Hell, if you’re too lazy to go search the URL, there are browser extensions that will do it for you.

[-] shotgun_crab@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Same. I used to frequent help subs, both asking and answering questions, and I know the pain of finding a deleted answer to a niche but important question.

[-] rtxn@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

You could post them here and delete them on reddit.

[-] Kibo@aussie.zone 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I came to the same conclusion too. Nuking my shitposting account before leaving was enough to made me feel guilty so I decided to keep the other account that I used for actual problem solving and proper discussions intact for the same reason you mentioned.

[-] InternetPirate@lemmy.fmhy.ml 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

All those posts are archived anyway, and anyone can create their own Lemmy instance once Reddit dies, preserving all the content from Reddit.

Reddit comments/submissions 2005-06 to 2022-12

[-] misk@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

It looks like it was removed by a mod. If a user deleted it it would have in place of comment text rather than . This user also deleted his account but that wouldn't delete his posts/comments.

[-] Kalkaline@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

I never said anything that ground breaking there.

[-] gonzo0815@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

It's funny to me that people seem to think your posts actually get deleted. I'm 99% sure they are still stored in the DB and deleting them just generates a new line in the DB with [deleted] as the content.

[-] shitescalates@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago

The irony is Reddit is still getting its ad views but users get screwed.

[-] neardeaf@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Same. I was definitely free tech support on niche topics I still get random DMs about months apart by a lost redditor that’s found the light. I don’t care about Reddit “benefiting from my data”… bitch I gave that up as soon as I registered an account and interacted with other users via the reddit medium.

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