This isn't likely to stop Reddit themselves from monetizing the data for AI training purposes. Deletion is typically "logical" in these types of systems, meaning that it's "marked as deleted" but not actually deleted.
What it does affect is the ability for others to see the posts, which might be companies accessing the API for AI training purposes. At this point, we don't know whether this is a meaningful path that Reddit wants to go down. If it is, they could allow the API to return deleted posts and comments (theoretically).
It’s too much fluffing around. The absolute simplest and most effective thing you can do is to simply stop using Reddit. I guarantee that their selling point to advertisers is impressions. If they’re not impressing you, they’re selling less ad space - simple as that.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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