The choice is between “John Oliver, Chiijohn, and their lookalikes bein adorable” and returning to normal.

  • @Little8Lost
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    2 years ago

    please dont let it be your last time.

    1. you could talk about lemmy and maybe bring people here
    2. You could bring your old posts here
    3. you could exchange your messages with nonsense:
      https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/146lloj /protip_if_you_replace_the_content_of_your/

    “: if you replace the content of your posts/comments with nonsense, you’ll make Reddit Inc. (including its CEO) lose money.”

    "There’s a good chance that those API price changes were motivated by large businesses using Reddit to train their large language models (LLMs) with. Stuff like GPT-3, Google’s BERT, Facebook’s Galactica, stuff like this. In other words, your content will be used to train bots. (It is, already.)

    Those models can be “poisoned” with random, machine generated nonsense. Poisoned data is worse than useless: it makes the model worse. So for each person replacing their Reddit content with nonsense, those businesses will be willing to pay Reddit Inc. less and less for API access."

    "Here is a mini-tutorial on how to do this. It’s for desktop users but you’ll likely be able to do the same from a phone browser.

    • [Choose 1/3] Open Zompist’s gen. Take off the line saying “ki|či”, and click “Generate”. You’ll get some random babble like “Bepe topioi kabi brete i kropra”, copy it somewhere.
    • [Choose 2/3] Open https://sebpearce.com/bullshit/ to get an entire bullshit article
    • [Choose 3/3] Open https://nonsense.x2d.org/ to get a bullshit sentence, i suggest getting a few ones.
    • Open your Reddit profile and drag the button of Power Delete Suite to it.
    • [Optional] Check the box saying “prepare local backup of items”, if you want to save your content elsewhere.
    • Uncheck “remove comments”. You want to replace them with babble, not remove them.
    • [Optional] uncheck “remove posts”. It depends if you post mostly self posts or if you post links/pics. Use your reasoning.
    • Check “Edit comments / self posts”. It should open an input box for text; place the babble from Zompist’s gen there. Then click “process”.
    • Just wait!
    • [Optional] Click to download the backup of the items.

    If you don’t like Zompist’s gen and/or Power Delete Suite, you can use any generator and/or Reddit mass edition tool of your choice."

    and yes, i am somewhat still on reddit but i think i do more against them when my app does not work anymore (to spread lemmy or information) i will follow this process

    • @Tangent
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      82 years ago

      Do you know of any generators that create things that are in English, seem normal at first glance, but are actually nonsensical? Things like “has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?”

      I’d like something plausible enough to be accepted by an AI model but that ends up making it sound like it’s having a stroke.

        • @Tangent
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          102 years ago

          Love it!

          Consciousness consists of bio-electricity of quantum energy. “Quantum” means an ennobling of the sensual. Nothing is impossible. To navigate the path is to become one with it.

          • @OtakuAltair
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            2 years ago

            I hate that these almost make sense

            Edit: I got “Spam rains heavily.” Very fitting lol

    • @TheDarkBanana87
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      72 years ago

      Already deleted my 10+ years account, before i know this. And before i know that Reddit could easily revert back the changes that i’ve made. But what’s done is done. Now i just want to focus on this Fediverse community. Never felt so great to be part of a growing community

      • super_user_do
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        42 years ago

        I dont think reddit restoring stuff you wanted to delete from your account would be considered legal lmao

        • @TheDarkBanana87
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          32 years ago

          True, but if you search around, you’ll find post that says reddit reverting changes the user made, such as restoring a deleted comment, restoring a comment that have been edited, even going back to a 5 year post.

          Now, cant verify is this true or not, because i already deleted my account. And i dont know if this is an after effect because reddit crashed after most of it subreddits went dark, and reddit tries to restore its dataase.

          But I dont think we “own” our data when we gave it to Reddit or any other service providers. All we can hope is that, that Service Provider respect our request :)

      • @Little8Lost
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        32 years ago

        you could give this advice to others. even if you cant do more damage anymore you could bring others to do damage

    • zzap
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      22 years ago

      thanks, that is what I needed

    • @OtakuAltair
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      22 years ago

      This is incredible lmao thanks