Today, not in a moment of necessity, but a moment of protest, I logged in to Reddit because I found tons of comments and posts listed on old Reddit when you sort by top or controversial.

I logged in to Reddit to destroy even more of my comments that were missed by Power Delete Suite.

It seems a lot of people are doing this. I’ve seen some interesting stuff here and Reddit with screenshots of deleted comments with “this solved my problem” below the deletion.

The way I look at it, ALL of my content was posted via Apollo, just like all of my comments and posts are through WefWef here. If Reddit admins felt the API shouldn’t be free, then my submissions are also not free for them to monetize and get traffic from.

I know for a fact I’ve had 100+ #1 ranked longtail SEO posts in Reddit before I deleted everything. Many of them were getting tons of traffic based on the amount of follow-up private messages received years later.

I do expect Reddit’s traffic to go down as a whole because of everyone leaving but also because of how many removed their content.

That IPO of theirs is going so well.

    • Mr_Buscemi@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      That’s why I saved a backup of my comments before I edited/wiped them all on Reddit.

      When I get time I’ll go through all 10 years worth of the backup to find information I can share again here.

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      Exactly. Waiting for some communities to get formed (I don’t want to run them or be a moderator). Some have started but low activity, especially in the health genre.

      I’m really excited for the fediverse. I also knew that patience would prevail on lemmy world as they deal with growth. Today has been amazing to see all the updates they did to improve performance.

      Finding all sorts of cool stuff on many instances to subscribe to. I’m actually starting to like this more than Reddit w/Apollo which is crazy to even say.

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    I find it problematic that Reddit thinks it can just sell all the content it’s users created. I like that people are deleting everything, making the site less useful, but it is sad losing all of that knowledge. I hope it reappears in the fediverse.

    Imagine if Wikipedia changed its financial model. That would be a major, major problem.

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      I stripped years of posts off of r/vans when I realized my submissions were almost always the top results on Google images when searching basic keywords (not gaming the search). I’ve built !vans@lemmy.world here and I’ve been posting my content from reddit here.

      The thought of leaving my content on reddit and driving further traffic to that site just left a bad taste in my mouth.

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      Wikipedia entre database is open for download. It’s under a license which means that anyone may host another Wikipedia clone at any time.

      Don’t worry about data from Wikipedia - it should be safe. Totally different beast than Reddit.

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        Yup, I usually download a snapshot every year or so. It’s more because I feel ways about digital archival, but it’s super convenient to be able to access that information offline as well.

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          damn isnt your hard drive full by now? Only downloading the text content or also all the other media like images/video/sound files?

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    10 years of angularjs, angulat, react, and c# answers to problems just disapeared from reddit last week as i wiped all my accounts

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      As a developer, this hits deep. RIP quality answers & search results for c# (in my case) related quedtions

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    Many are waiting for their data takeout requests to complete before doing the same. And to follow up with GDPR requests/GDPR deletion requests.

    All to improve their quarter numbers pre-IPO.

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    I wanted to look up how to delete all the content I posted on reddit over the years. I do not find it. When I google “how do I delete all my reddit posts” I mostly get AI generated no name sites, ad-infested “Wiki-How” … and reddit posts, which are most likely the most helpfull … does not look like there is a “delete” button I can click, have to install scripts or something … Fuck.

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    This makes me sad. Information is being erased that will keep people who could’ve been helped by it from ever finding it.

    The people who it will hurt the most have nothing to do with Reddit.

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    Yep! Sync and (for the first few years) BaconReader brought me to Reddit. Not Reddit. I have several high karma accounts that are a decade plus. Nuked all of my comments and posts today, and now they’re up for sale!

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    Just overwrote everything in the old account; will set the system to delete everything tonight and then a 10-year-old account is done. I will keep the account for a while longer, should they decide to restore anything I’ve deleted.

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      I’m still waiting for them to send me my data before I erase. There’s just no way I can manually go through 10+ years to see if there’s any info I want to keep copies of. But now I’m wondering what happens if they never respond to my data request. Before rif went dark I saw a lot of others saying they never got a response.

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        I did not get a response yet. They still have 3 weeks before it is a GDPR breach. I am on a vacation but when I get home, I will resend my requests via email to have proof and forward to EU regulators if they miss the deadline.