I’m considering rewriting all of my comments, but I want to do this carefully and correctly because I’d eventually want to delete the account, so I wouldn’t be able to make changes
I want to keep it short and sweet, but be informative, make very good points, and hopefully persuade any user to try out the fediverse
What did you guys change yours to? I’m thinking something along the lines of this:
This comment has been rewritten so that its’ content is removed. On May 31, 2023, Reddit announced they were raising the price to make calls to their API from being free to a level that will kill every third party app on Reddit. This hurts many types of users, and the way that the CEO has handled the situation is not right at all. Reddit is another victim of pure corporate greed.
Some may not consider this important to them, but for anyone who sees this, I strongly encourage you to join the fediverse. It will be confusing at first, but it is very welcoming :) Alternative platforms:
I feel like it’s too wordy (I tend to ramble). I’m trying to find compact “elegantly worded” reasons about what’s going on and why it’s wrong, with links of good posts, but a lot of that is on reddit. Can you guys help a bro out?
Unpopular opinion here:
But don’t. Maybe rewrite your last 6 months of comments, but as an archive Reddit still has value in over a decade of helpful answers to Googles. From a historical perspective, I think tearing that apart could be a mistake.
I completely understand and respect your opinion, but I just disagree on a personal level - and I think there is a very valid compromise to still achieve this, by redirection. It would obviously suck a lot for people who just want to find information, so they can still get it. Just take them away from reddit
Like most of us probably, I exclusively used reddit for finding information about literally anything. Google search algorithm is straight hot garbage it’s embarrassing lol
If we want other non-corporate owned thread-like platforms to be successful and for reddit to “not get away with this” I personally think this has to be done. Otherwise it’s just still a free database of information that we as the users provided for free, and reddit will continue to profit off of. It’s my personal stance on it, but I think it’s not right, and I believe the extreme majority of people either won’t or won’t know how to use reddit as a search engine without giving them profits
My solution is to rewrite all of my comments, but for anything that I provided a solution for (or guide), I will redirect them to the same information, but not on reddit. For example, I wrote a full blown returning player guide (like 18 pages) for the game Vindictus, so I’m moving it to google docs. I will inform the discord, in addition to linking the google doc on the reddit OP, and possibly also reference a Lemmy post, give insightful information, etc
Most of my comments though are just discussions though, not many fixes or solutions. So that’s what I’m planning on doing
Exactly, it is not even a “free” database you are paying in ad impressions to line the pockets of the likes of spez…at least when I work for my boss and.tramsfer my IP I get some money back for putting the CEO into his next yacht…when I give that ip to Reddit I expect some respect not a kick in the face and told to lick the shit off
This is exactly what I did. I saved a copy of all my content (well PDS nuked some of it and didn’t save it properly, but I got what’s left).
I used automated tools but I left a message on how to reach out to me at my new hangout on each one. I think it shouldn’t be too hard to find the answer from there - and if it is, well hey, I’m open to answering a question or a few.
My content will be made available again, just not on reddit. reddit won’t get to profit from ads using my content. Folks on reddit will have to come here (or find me elsewhere) to get that info - so i’ll slowly redirect em from reddit to places like the fediverse.
This is exactly what I did. I saved a copy of all my content
How did you do this?
I don’t. I think this incident showed the dangers relying so much on a single failure point, and sometimes to move forward you have to do the equivalent of burning all your ships.
people found information for hundreds of years before reddit and will for hundreds of years after.
Remember though that in this process, you are helping reddit make money. Folks using google to find those answers on reddit will view it on reddit and feed their ads traffic.
If you can accept that, then i’m cool with it too. After all, it is your content.
But a lot of us, we still want to have this archive up. Just not on reddit itself. Some folks archive the reddit posts on the internet archive or ghost archive. So google searches will still find the answer, but will direct folks to some other side and reddit won’t get the views.
Reddit redesign is all made to try and trap people who enter it without an account. It doesn’t expand all the way down so leads you searching for the answer, and then has bunch of recommended posts and threads trying to get people to do one more click to not leave the site. Also pop up to install the app on mobile which has bunch of permissions to extract more data to resell. Reddit is becoming Facebook, so continuing to fuel the value of it doesn’t seem like a good idea for the long term if Reddit does become a juggernaut.
After all, people laughed when Facebook’s phone flopped. Now they got stuff like WhatsApp that some countries can’t go without.
This makes me just want to erase the comments from reddit entirely. To avoid getting users trapped into reddit like this. Better to make them search harder and find the answers outside of reddit.
Ugh yes, and when they did that, it ruined one of the best things about reddit; the fact that it didn’t have shit like that.
It’s amazing what people will destroy for a few bucks.
OP didn’t tear that apart; Steve Huffman did.
I would suggest any answers that you solved be deleted and reposted on Lemmy/kbin. We could build up our own useful database while removing our old stuff from Diggit.
I wrote up two handy guides for my favorite subreddit. I ended up making a magazine for that community on Kbin, so I posted my guides there and replaced the originals with direct links to those. Members are low on the magazine since migration isn’t easy, but I’ve decided to populate the magazine with guides and information I personally ended up needing during my time on that subreddit and other tips stuff I’ve picked up from YouTube videos. That way, if anyone ends up in that magazine for some reason, they might keep coming back.
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[This comment was deleted in response to Reddit’s June 2023 API changes. Consider migrating to Kbin or Lemmy.]
That would communicate the same message with way, way fewer words.
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Nice. I think I’ll change mine to [Fallen comment during the Great API Wars ]
I automatically replaced my many years of comments with long strings of randomly-selected words, then deleted them.
This way, if they do bulk-restore deleted comments, they’ll have swallowed a poison-pill since my comments will actually be harmful rather than helpful to the LLM learning Spez wants to profit from.
I was just permanently banned from /r/damnthatsinteresting (which currently does not have any mods) for a 4-month old comment I edited with PDS.
It sounds like they very much don’t like that we are doing this :)
My edit read a lot like the first post here, but I didn’t mention the fediverse at all. I did say that I used Power Delete Suite, though.
No swearing, nothing like that.
It had around 150 upvotes at the time of edit.What the heck?!!! If there are no mods then who’s doing the banning???
Spaz
