I for one believe that scorched earth is the best approach. Your content is yours, you have moral and legal ownership over it; if you want to replace it in that site with gibberish, it's your right and choice.
Its people not used to thinking about backups on databases etc or that they can't be used. They can probably stand up a database instance preannoncement with an api infront of it for ai training. Hell probably even offer it as extra monetary option. We will sell you what preannouncement looks like, then you can use the access you pay us for currently to compare how people react against a negative action by a company.
*edit - it does impact people that would use like web scrapers vs api and also possibly google search results, so it probably does do something, just not necessarily the impact everyone might have when doing the mass deletes.
@Kill_joy I'm just waiting for my data export to come through (it's been over a week since I requested it), then I'll submit a GDPR deletion request – any other way of deleting only hides the data from the web, but it remains in their databases.
Same, anyone reading here can do a GDPR data request using this link, but you should probably wait for the export to come through to delete your account:
This is supposedly expensive to compile, and they'll get hefty fines if they don't follow through.
I feel like this would have the opposite effect, and search engines will still see this as active user traffic and prioritize Reddit in search results, which will still drive more ad views.
This might be useful if Reddit was looking to sell, as bot traffic could potentially devalue the platform (like in the case of Twitter's buyout), but unless they're trying to change ownership, I don't think this will actually hurt them at all.
Then people who still prefer Reddit to Lemmy could do the same to us and would be totally justified. Do not make internet even worse than it is now. You don't like a service – don't use it. Do not make it worse for everybody else.
Then people who still prefer Reddit to Lemmy could do the same to us and would be totally justified.
There's a big difference: unlike Reddit, Lemmy and Kbin aren't actively pissing off the people who manage the place.
Do not make internet even worse than it is now.
That means not leaving your content in Reddit, where it'll attract more people to drop their content there, only to be erased in the future. Because no matter what we do, Reddit is going down and all info there is going with it.
Also worth noting that most content in Reddit is archived anyway, up to March/23 (when Reddit killed Pushshift access), so the actual loss of info would be next to zero.
No, but I am spiteful enough to spend a decent amount of time trying to tank their IPO, because fuck them, I'm pretty anti-corporate and willing to spend a reasonable amount time to fuck any and all of them.
I'd presume companies have scraped all the data on Reddit and packed it into a neat little package so editing old comments for that reason would be kind of moot. There was even a torrent of Reddit data afaik?
I don’t care enough about Reddit anymore to take petty revenge against Spez. Life is hard enough these days without some silly internet drama. Delete your Reddit account, take a deep breath and move on.
If shitposting on a site you don't like any more out of spite is honestly how you want to spend your time, go for it I guess. I'm sure you could find something more fulfilling to do.
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