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this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2023
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This is what stopped me from doing it. I always feel like if I've helped make one person's day a little bit better, then I've done my bit as a human.
I know how good it is when you have a really complex, niche, problem and someone gives the answer you exactly needed, and I don't want to take that away from the public, even though a company I don't support is profiting off my comments and submissions.
Yeah I feel the same as a big preservationist. I feel that I got value from Reddit before, now I don't anymore but that doesn't take away what I benefitted from previously.
So instead I edited my top 30 comments and added something to the effect of "As of Jul 2023 I'm on lemmy kthxbye".
This is a better solution in my view 👍
I don't know why your approach didn't occur to me but that's a great idea. Deleting all my content would pain me both as someone who has been able to help people with my posts and as a digital anthropologist, but making it known why I'm no longer engaging with the platform while preserving that content is a good balance between disengaging and purging.
When you can’t trust the company not to paywall your contribution or hold it hostage, it’s time to sever ties and do what you can to kill the platform. Every new contribution to Reddit is a further waste of our collective efforts. The sooner the platform dies the sooner contributors move somewhere else where their posts will be in safer hands.