… go through your ‘top posts’, copy & paste the text into a doc, post it here, then delete it. Let reddit’s loss be lemmy’s gain!

  • @falconfetus8
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    161 year ago

    I’d rather people not delete their content at all, tbh. Imagine all of the Google searches that would be borked by it.

    • 1chemistdown
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      81 year ago

      Let’s be honest, google search has been turning to crap for a long time. I would appreciate google search being destroyed to the point a new player comes along or they get their search back to 2000-2005 quality.

      • Bleeping LobsterOP
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        31 year ago

        Thought I was going slowly mad, good to have confirmation that it’s not just me who thinks google search has gone to complete shit. I can’t remember the last time a “-” modifier actually worked.

        • 1chemistdown
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          41 year ago

          Once search switched to boxing people in based off what they and other people search for, it really went downhill, and then they started directing search more and more towards add revenue. Then they removed Boolean followed by continuing to make it suck. Then they removed their company pledge to not be evil.

      • @[email protected]
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        Losing reddit search results would actually reduce the quality of all the competitors too.

        Except for AI models that have already been trained on the data before it was deleted. So if all the useful information on reddit is deleted, we’ll essentially make ChatGPT the only search engine that actually does anything.

        Just hopping from one near-monopoly to another at that point.

        • 1chemistdown
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          11 year ago

          Just hopping from one near-monopoly to another at that point.

          Same as it ever was

    • @[email protected]
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      81 year ago

      It would be neat if there would be a script that would:

      1. Crawl through your top Reddit posts
      2. Copy the content and make an identical post on Lemmy
      3. Overwrite the post on Reddit with a link to the Lemmy post
      • TheSaneWriter
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        21 year ago

        That’s definitely possible, the API of both Reddit and Lemmy are developed enough for it. It would just be a case of someone taking the time to sit down and make it.

        • @[email protected]
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          21 year ago

          I think the biggest hurdle might be the fact that not every subreddit as an equivalent Lemmy community.

      • @falconfetus8
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        51 year ago

        That would just make them go downhill further.

    • Bleeping LobsterOP
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      31 year ago

      Definitely a valid concern, that. Ultimately we all need to do what we feel is right for us, the thought of reddit profitting from the content produced by their users even after they’ve left really rankles me though. It’s unfair (though that’s life, I guess).