Today, not in a moment of necessity, but a moment of protest, I logged in to Reddit because I found tons of comments and posts listed on old Reddit when you sort by top or controversial.

I logged in to Reddit to destroy even more of my comments that were missed by Power Delete Suite.

It seems a lot of people are doing this. I’ve seen some interesting stuff here and Reddit with screenshots of deleted comments with “this solved my problem” below the deletion.

The way I look at it, ALL of my content was posted via Apollo, just like all of my comments and posts are through WefWef here. If Reddit admins felt the API shouldn’t be free, then my submissions are also not free for them to monetize and get traffic from.

I know for a fact I’ve had 100+ #1 ranked longtail SEO posts in Reddit before I deleted everything. Many of them were getting tons of traffic based on the amount of follow-up private messages received years later.

I do expect Reddit’s traffic to go down as a whole because of everyone leaving but also because of how many removed their content.

That IPO of theirs is going so well.

  • KSP Atlas
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    61 year ago

    I sent a GDPS request for my information in order to have an archive of my posts to look through and enjoy, perhaps remix and repost on here if possible. Apparently I submitted it while people were attempting to overwhelm reddit by mass requesting them, so idk if it will be approved

    • @[email protected]
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      61 year ago

      There’s no will in there. They must give you your data or else. The only thing they can do is to notify you of a required extension because they are overwhelmed. Sans that, they are obliged by law to give you what’s yours.

    • Nerd02
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      21 year ago

      When did you submit your request? I sent mine on the 22nd and they still haven’t replied. I’m thinking of reporting them to my country’s privacy authority if they don’t comply before 22/07.