• Omega (she/her) @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    11 months ago

    When Reddit’s API debacle happened lots of people moved away. Some deleted their comments, some edited them with a message in protest. But sadly the consequences is that a lot of history and useful information got lost in the process.

    I don’t know how I feel about this. I understand why it’s done and even why it needs to be done, but it still makes me sad considering the amount of times where Reddit saved me from massive headaches with IT stuff and so on…

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      11 months ago

      As someone who deleted their posts… yes. The goal was to make Reddit worse, by removing my contributions to it because they forgot where their value came from.

      My content had some small value to them. They didn’t deserve it.

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        11 months ago

        I hope they delete all your stuff when your account gets banned because I’ve left at least three of those in my wake

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    11 months ago

    I wish I’d deleted all my comments and posts before deleting my account.

    Don’t forget they’re also selling all your freely provided content to AI scrapers as well. Fuck Reddit.

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        11 months ago

        From what I can tell, it continues to exist, but you can no longer post. They’re not gonna just give up all that free data.

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          11 months ago

          Cool they can have all my toxic hatred against Republicans for their AI to learn from