I’m fearful of people going redditZero and deleting their years-old accounts, as reddit has become a vast trove of information for a vast number of systems. If I go dark and delete, it won’t be everything. Memes and regular conversations may go, but I’ll be sure to leave every technical response I’ve ever given (or even edit it if I have since learned more precise information). It feels like so many are ready to cut off their nose to spite their face. The community we had was built by us collectively and enriched by the content we shared. I feel like despite reddit literally doing everything wrong, by deleting our collective wisdom, we aren’t hurting reddit as much as we’re hurting our own community of sysadmins.

Please consider that we are facing a Wisdom of the Ancients situation here, and I sure as shit know that I don’t want to be the one on the other end of seeing “deleted”, then “Thanks that worked!” in my future.

Just food for thought.

  • @[email protected]
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    291 year ago

    kinda disagree, reddit is going to monetize the hell out of anything that’s left over after everyone leaves

    better to delete everything asap

    • @theoneandonlymdOP
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      -31 year ago

      It’s still a forum-style website. Adblock still works, which is where they’re getting their trickle of revenue. They aren’t moving to a premium, pay-to-access model. Even they aren’t that dumb.

      • @haulyard
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        101 year ago

        Did you just triple-dog dare spez?

        • @theoneandonlymdOP
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          41 year ago

          At least that would give the rest of the users reason to leave so other platforms can grow faster.

  • @j4k3
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    261 year ago

    The data should be scraped and on Archive.org. I copied my posts and references, to share here.

    Reddit will get my CCPA delete notice. Reddit is a failed experiment just like GeoCities, Yahoo, MySpace, Windows, Facebook, and Google. I don’t want or need them. The data I shared on these platforms is irrelevant because I am here. Ask away. I am the value, not them.

  • Shertson
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    161 year ago

    I initially agreed with you. I’d hate to see all of that communal knowledge lost.

    Reading the other replies, I am not so sure. Do they deserve to continue capitalizing on other peoples knowledge? Yes and No. They did supply a service without which that collection would have had to be assembled somewhere else. But I don’t think they should be able to capitalize on it forever.

    With the archive team and their efforts, I am less worried about “Wisdom of the Ancients” situation.

    • @PixxlMan
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      21 year ago

      I just hope the archives will be easily accessible and searchable, preferably without having to specifically leave the search engine to search them, otherwise the knowledge will still, in practice for most people, be inaccessible.

  • @[email protected]
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    21 year ago

    I’m torn on this and haven’t decided what to do. At the very least they will not be getting my knowledge posted over there any longer.

  • @[email protected]
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    11 year ago

    I don’t care about Reddit; they are just going to profit from our data. Delete your posts if you want to. The collective knowledge/wisdom is within the community and if we all move to Lemmy, that knowledge comes with us.

  • lazynooblet
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    11 year ago

    Don’t worry, Reddit are restoring comments and posts anyway.