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.

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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

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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.

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The search volume and ads do not justify the help for the greater good IMO.
It fucks Reddit more over to use an adblocker and DDOS their servers to reduce the traffic.

Please do not ddos them

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The value is the continued creation of content. Without new stuff it gets horning and useless

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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.

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15 points

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

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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.

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Finally some sane voice. People don’t seem to think 2cm in front of their nose.

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And if the user deletes it, at least archive it beforehand on archive.org.

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Yeah and then they get unhappy with reddit and find Lemmy. :)

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20 points

I was active in sysadmin subs. My people need those comments

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Yeah I was in the Home Assistant sub. The number of times I Googled something I was struggling with, only to find a Reddit thread with MY comment telling people how to solve the exact issue I’m struggling with lol, I’ll leave it up.

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Haha… As if my content on Reddit has any value to anyone.

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3 points

You’d be surprised sometimes.

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5 points

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

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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.

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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.

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I would experience negative emotions about Lemmy/k in if I found a reddit thread describing my problem and the lauded solution was changed to say the user moved there. It would not make me want to switch.

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This also has the benefit of (eventually) changing your comments in the number of archives of Reddit that exist

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1JSYY0HbudmYYjnZaAMgf2y_GDFgHzZTolK6Yqaz6_kQ and this is the form to remove your data from pushshifts archive

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38 points

God, I wish I knew about Redacto. I manually deleted my 11 year old account over the course of like 3 days.

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22 points

the hero we deserve

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6 points

What? How?

I wouldn’t do it this way.

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Doesn’t fully delete. I was still able to find old comments. It gets rid of most. Also reddit is known to restore deleted posts and comments now. Week after I deleted everything was restored automatically.

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20 points

Post racist conspiracy theories until your scrubbed from the site, it’s your only hope.

Legal advice.

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6 points

All I had to do was report a pedophile with direct proof to get me banned and it got them a temp 7 day ban -_-.

Reddit is disgusting

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6 points

wtf - we’re gonna need the full story there…

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5 points

Using the the N word for good /jk

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Actual unethical but nuclear LPT:
Just post a video of something cruel or with shock value you found online^(or do it yourself…I won’t judge). IMO not so different than racist stuff
create outrage
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profit (and get banned)

Edit: I do not condone animal cruelty.
Edit2: In essence: Post something bad on Reddit to get the attention from Admins to get banned site wide. That should hide your comments from anywhere your username is related to.
Just don’t post something to bad, so that it will be reported to the authorities.

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23 points

Reddit is a fucking cesspool. Deleted that shit after they killed 3rd party apps. Wish I had fucked off outta there sooner.

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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

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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.

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Tell me why sooner

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