By all means, you do you. But here is how I see it.

1. Reddit is now all out to get money. I don’t want them to use my content to get it. I was fine going so when they provided a service, but now that I don’t like their terms, my content will be gone.
2. There is next to no information I provided that is unique. If I found a solution, it’s only because I founded it elsewhere. I am not destroying information.
3. For that which is unique, it is merely my opinion, and see point 1.

Guess it depends what you've been doing. I only make memes, shitposts and stupid comments, so I don't think that makes a difference either way.

However, by mass-editing their own comments, one can fill up a good chunk of Reddit with some specific message. So that's a good argument for.

I'm thinking of saving all of my comments on my own webserver and then deleting them That way they are at least not gone forever.

Fwiw I've definitely not contributed anything of note on reddit (low effort 2-sentence hot takes) so I don't think it matters to me

What I have done is mass edit all my comments to Lemmy equivalents of subs I used to frequent, hopefully that's of more use than the dross I used to leave on there (and will leave on here for that matter lmao)

The point is to put your uniquely provided information somewhere else, like Lemmy. Google will figure out how to prioritize this information eventually. Delete it from reddit so that it's no longer the internet's repository of information.

I respect your two cents and politely disagree.

I'm looking at a CEO who somehow thinks my content is his to profit off of, and I decide that I won't be a part of it. It most definitely will hurt users, yes. A lot of my posts were top results in Google for my work field, and that knowledge is lost because I edited and then removed all my posts and comments.

But it is the only course of action available to me, if I want to keep in charge of my content, and who gets to monetize it.

Agree with OP.

I've posted original content on subreddits meant for people with mental disorders. I also helped people find solutions for software-related problems. I don't feel that screwing them over to make a statement to Reddit's CEO is the right way to go.

I plan to delete my Reddit account and avoid visiting the site as much as I can. If enough people do the same thing and use alternatives instead, that's enough of a statement to me.

You're not the first person I've seen make this argument, and it's definitely a difficult situation.

End of the day though, this line of argument essentially allows Reddit to hold us hostage. While it is unfortunate that this will be in some ways harmful to the internet as a whole, it's ultimately our content, and we have the right to remove it if we wish.

That said, I do think that, if anyone has a history of being particularly helpful on Reddit, they should consider backing up their comments, and possibly reposting the relevant information to a blog or something similar, or maybe even here on Lemmy.

It's fine to delete and rebuild.

As long as old comments are there people will land there. After Google indexes the deletion, people will land on Lemmy, and we can engage in providing up-to-date solutions.

Deleting and nuking posts and comments are only distroy what we and the entire reddit community built over the years and it will be a huge loss for all of us.

Reddit has already been destroyed by the actions taking place currently by spez and the site admins. There is no saving it anymore, not in any way that matters.

You're right, it is a huge loss but don't put that blame on the users deleting comments, that blame lies squarely on Reddit. The way I see it they don't deserve the content we have provided them and the right thing to do is rebuild that information elsewhere. Here on the fediverse for example.

To keep your content on Reddit is to encourage web traffic to Reddit, which makes them money.

I wrote it, it's my content and I will delete it if I want to. The value and knowledge there deposited comes not from the text itself, but from who I am as a person, my years of study and experience. Reddit doesn't own either, nor has any right to profit from my labor. If anyone wants anything from me they can ask me directly elsewhere. Whatever is worth preserving for posterity's sake I will systematize and publish in books. Whatever of value is worth sharing and distributing I will do so out of my own volition, on the platforms of my choosing and under the conditions I agree upon. Fuck Spez.