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.
As much as reddit sucks right now, getting rid of decades of tech solutions that are not found anywhere else (not on the fediverse either) is not a solution. back up your reddit stuff somewhere and link to it from reddit, but don't delete it, and don't delete it and tell people 'because lemmy', people will hate lemmy.
Instead of "because lemmy", I'd say reddit now charges money for the content, but they did not pay the creator.
That's a problem with many companies... for example, Google Maps relies almost completely on its local guides that spend many hours of their free time adding content to google maps. Google makes money with ads, but in my >5 years of being a local guide, I only got a 15% discount for Google store as reward (after being a local guide for 4 years) which I don't even need...
I don't mean to brag, but I was a very active Guide for a couple years and I am still in the top 10% even though I haven't posted a review in two years. My profile info shows that I have had hundreds of thousands of views.
They gave me a pair of Google Guide themed socks. They were cheap, poorly sized, and wore thin quickly.
My wife wrote a lot of reviews on Google Maps and all she ever got were some socks.
It's infuriating, and even more when you start looking for that profit pattern in companies that range from "philanthropic" foundations leeching from volunteers while buying their own companies stock, to academic journals with CEO's earning ridiculous amounts of money over research that someone else paid.
Use "Because API changes" instead of "Because lemmy". But I agree; changing it to a link to Lemmy instead is better. Theres a shit-ton of valuable information buried on Reddit.
yeah, but Reddit was shit long before the API changes...like abandoning open source 7-8 years ago.
Well without a public API it may be quite impossible to mass delete stuff (for non EU-citizen at least, EU citizens can always do a GPDR delete request -otoh you basically have to connect your reddit account with your real name to do that so big nope as well) in the future, so i fully understand why so many people did it
Will it cause collateral damage? Yes. Am i happy I did it when it was still possible? Fuck yes.
This has been a meme for such a long ass time (even before Reddit) that any deleted post in a support type thread (or on a meme of the subject) was subject to someone replying "Thanks that solved it!"
The most common version of this is when someone posts to Stack Overflow asking about the exact problem in having.
The only reply is from OP: NVM. Fixed it. (4 years ago.)
And you can never post the same topic again since it'll be marked as duplicate and links back to that useless-ass post
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I never posted anything worth preserving over there so my choice was clear lel
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.
This is why maintaining your account there and keep deleting your comments/posts will destroy Reddit. Do it, you have the power.
That says removed. That means someone else removed it, but not the user.
Does that make a difference?
I was under the assumption that it was removed bc of the migration/protests. Would that be the case, I wouldn't mind the info being lost. I've been trying to avoid clicking on (live) reddit links even if there's the answer I'm looking for. Also, maybe using the wayback machine does the trick?
As I said in the description, this was taken last year, when the comments were a year old already. And even then it didn't make a difference why the information wasn't there anymore.
I saw a few people editing all their Reddit comments/posts with an explanation as to why the info is gone and they also gave a link to where they could find their content reposted on Lemmy. Thought that was pretty clever.
Now I wish there's a script to automate this
My brother you are kinda living under a rock. There have been widespread of websites/scripts to do this while the deadend(because we don't know of what changes reddit would make of their api which may hamper the work of these services)of July 1st was approaching.
That's the intention of users deleting their staffs: making reddit less useful, and therefore, shrink its traffic.
That's the downside of having a website completely runned by the community and volunteer moderators. You mess with them, you lose half of their contents. 🤣
This has "searching desperately for a programming question only to find a stackexchange that's like "edit: nevermind I solved it" energy.
Nothing grinds my gears more than looking for a tech solution / coding solution to a problem, only to find one other person had the same issue, and then finding that the original post was either deleted like in OPs, or just "nevermind I fixed it".
Who were you DenverCoder9? What did you see?!
The absolute best is if the OP was you and you found the solution and now can't remember and are looking again but never documented it.
Crazy how you described me of the past and I hate it as well.
That solved it. Thanks!
This thread is great. I love how people are arguing against deleting your Reddit history by comparing their own history to the content in the Library of Alexandria. The Reddit hive mind and subreddit echo chamber had a lasting effect, it seems.
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