As a PSA, remember that the API changes don’t only impact third party apps & accessibility tools, but also your ability to bulk delete or modify your Reddit history. If you intend to delete or modify your previous Reddit posts, be sure to run a tool like Power Delete Suite today before the shut down.
Also remember that as Subreddits went from private to public, there may have been posts and comments you attempted to delete but couldn’t until they went public again. So if you ran these tools, you might want to run it again to make sure you got everything.
Why would you delete your reddit posts? I understand that there’s a protest and chang in API pricing is unfair and all that stuff, but think of all this people looking for a solution for ther problem
How are they responsible for the API pricing that you have to punish them? At least migrated all of the posts to Lemmy before deleting them, please
Irritating people looking for answers is part of the point of the deletion. They can and will find answers somewhere else, and if they keep finding blanks on Reddit, they will start ignoring Reddit search results. That is what will hurt Reddit, not just having less data to sell through the API. … and don’t worry, everything on Reddit is backed up somewhere else anyway, if you are desperate for a specific post or comment.
Not particularly practical. You can repost all the content but you can’t migrate the comments that have the solutions.
Weighing the cons of losing the history vs the cons of Reddit continuing to exploit others content exclusively for their financial benefit… I support anyone who chooses the nuclear option.
I just look for one of the archival sites that has snapshots of entire pages. I used the Wayback Machine last time I needed something.
I don’t want reddit to get any traffic from my troubleshooting or solution posts anymore. Sucks for people looking for solutions, but eventually people may learn to ignore reddit posts on google and the like.
Those people can thank reddit… for trying to monetize the content people gave it for free.
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I said it on Reddit and I’ll say it here. No one is under any obligation to practice this perceived “selflessness” of leaving their comments for any reason. Nor to act as a replacement for google’s failures.
Who is to say that they even have an answer someone needs? They don’t want their shit fed into AI. It’s their shit to do with as they please.
It’s sad but it’s their prerogative. Reddit don’t care about them and they shouldn’t care about Reddit. Gotta find a dedicated message board with the answers. Like in the days of yore.
After reading the comments in that file power delete backed up for me. I did the world a favor.
I hate that this comment got downvoted. It’s a valid thing to worry about and has generated some interesting replies
There is no reason to leave your old comments. Every question that has been asked may be asked again - on Reddit it on another platform. Most questions have been asked and answered elsewhere.
Google provided answers before Reddit and will provide answers after. Reddit was getting paid, though eyeballs, for it answers which were indexed on google. People sure as shit didn’t find answers by searching on Reddit - that site couldn’t find a relevant post if you quoted a thread title verbatim.
Reddit has made a statement that our time and effort is worth nothing, and we should return the favor. If Spez wants his billions by displaying answers, he should grab his keyboard and start answering them himself. If he wants memes he should fire up photoshop. If he wants AITA content he needs only post pictures of himself in the sub day after day. I don’t work work for free, and you shouldn’t either.