Gotta be honest, watching the titles of the posts getting deleted made me a bit nostalgic, because it was an almost 5yo account.
However, now that’s old news, and my account is totally gone.
I won’t miss it really, I like Lemmy a lot more.
Controversial maybe but I’m leaving my 12 years of content up in case there is an answer someone needs
I just won’t use it anymore
Consider removing it so users won’t find it… Because the less value they get from reddit, the more likely it is they will come here instead.
They won’t come here… They’ll go wherever they can to solve the problem, which won’t be here because Lemmy doesn’t really show up in search results yet
Depends on the search engine I think? I was getting lots of nice results on “Lemmy neovim” on Kagi.
But yeah, fully aware that almost all people use Google and that the current results may not be as good as reddit.
Finally some sane voice. People don’t seem to think 2cm in front of their nose.
I agree, reddit gets most of their traffic from the engagement surrounding the latest shitposts and low-effort memes. (Or just genuine community content if you prefer)
Months old posts are hardly relevant to large scale user engagement and it’s unlikely that the one user trying to solve a problem by visiting a years old thread is going to have much of an impact.
If people are going to move away from the site in a healthy manner, they need to realise for themselves that it’s time to move on. Better to have a bunch of hopeful and curious people looking for new opportunities rather than bitter and resentful users which are going to vent their frustration elsewhere.
There needs to be a script, that moves each of your reddit comment over to Lemmy and edits the reddit comment with a link to the lemmy post
And if the user deletes it, at least archive it beforehand on archive.org.
That’s super nice of you but in the end it just adds value to a company that doesn’t give a shit about its creators.
Same. I’m not gonna make the internet worse to use because I’ve now left the product. As a user, it’s frustrating when I need help with some niche issue and find the perfect result on google, only for it to be deleted or otherwise useless. Deleting such history isn’t gonna make people want to use Lemmy or the likes. Such historical information doesn’t and will not exist on Lemmy. Deleting it doesn’t push people to an alternative. It just means it’s gone.
I’m not gonna cut off the collective internet’s nose to spite Reddit’s face.
Did anyone else try to click the white x in the upper right corner to close the image? I can’t be the only one.
cool
I feel ya. I’m never logged in to Reddit anymore and if a search result pointe to Reddit I always go in incognito.
I will eventually batch edit my posts to crap and delete my account but it’s an old account with 10 years of experiences, Aha-moments and other feelings… So I’m not ready yet…
If you just posted nonsense and useless stuff like memes without a real value sure go ahead.
IMO it’s like burning a library of useful knowledge regardless of it’s content. The amount of advice in casual conversations is IMO more important than “giving the finger” to Reddit.
My request if you really do it: Please archive useful advice threads on archive.org so some can at least take advantage while not having to visit reddit itself.
Reddit is a fucking cesspool. Deleted that shit after they killed 3rd party apps. Wish I had fucked off outta there sooner.
People were saying see you in a week like this was only an API issue and not that the site became incredibly toxic and infested by bots and low quality content
Ill pop in maybe monthly to make sure my stuff stays deleted/edited and Ill check in on /r/all…its a shit show, who is entertaining this? Its karma farming or garbage across the board. Lemmy is super young but it feels like reddit a decade ago. Ill gladly deal with its shortcomings to not deal with whatever reddit turned into.
