I'm on the fence.
On one hand, I didn't contribute anything other than stupid jokes in the comments.
On the other hand, I hold a lot of top and best comment spots.
Do I delete or just ignore it and camp the username so nobody else can take it? 🤔
My thinking is that Spez & Co were angry about not getting paid for "their" content being used to train AI. Well, I've now removed my contributions (or more accurately, I replaced my thousands of posts and comments with the same 2-300 words talking about how Reddit sucks now). After all, I sure as shit wasn't getting paid.
I'm curious for those of you who have done this: Have you archived anything?
It's hard to part with a 14 year old account and so much history. I know there are sites that archive reddit and of course archive.org. But nothing is a sure thing unless you are the custodian. It's such a huge snapshot of my life.... Proud of some of it. Not proud of other parts. But that's the beauty of it.
Also I've heard Reddit is reversing anyone who does this anyways.... so... yea. Might not go well in the EU, but they probably can get away with it in the US.
Yes, that's what I did. I've made reddit bots before so I just modified one of my old ones to go through every one of my comments and save them in an excel file. I then edited the comments to say that if anyone needs a particular comment, they should message me on Lemmy. IMO it's the best of both worlds - people can still get their data in case my comments were helpful, and Reddit won't get my comments
