Hi, it might be against what most people feel and think right now but I feel that it needs to be said.
I come from rational place even though I currently hate reddit and removed it completely from my devices, but I’m not going to delete my posts or nuke my comments.
Like it or not Reddit is still a huge database for a lot of solutions and great posts and discussions about opinions, reviews, how-to and many many more. Lemmy will take time to keep the pace and be filled with these types of content. And it might might take years to get to it (I really hope it will).
Deleting and nuking posts and comments are only distroy what we and the entire reddit community built over the years and it will be a huge loss for all of us.
If you ask me, the best way to say ‘fuck you’ to reddit, is keep all the old Content there, try to migrate as much as we can here and from now on build this content here. When/if Lemmy be mature enough we can go back and fuck everything up on reddit.
This is my 2 cents.
By all means, you do you. But here is how I see it.
- Reddit is now all out to get money. I don’t want them to use my content to get it. I was fine going so when they provided a service, but now that I don’t like their terms, my content will be gone.
- There is next to no information I provided that is unique. If I found a solution, it’s only because I founded it elsewhere. I am not destroying information.
- For that which is unique, it is merely my opinion, and see point 1.
The point is to put your uniquely provided information somewhere else, like Lemmy. Google will figure out how to prioritize this information eventually. Delete it from reddit so that it’s no longer the internet’s repository of information.
I wrote it, it’s my content and I will delete it if I want to. The value and knowledge there deposited comes not from the text itself, but from who I am as a person, my years of study and experience. Reddit doesn’t own either, nor has any right to profit from my labor. If anyone wants anything from me they can ask me directly elsewhere. Whatever is worth preserving for posterity’s sake I will systematize and publish in books. Whatever of value is worth sharing and distributing I will do so out of my own volition, on the platforms of my choosing and under the conditions I agree upon. Fuck Spez.
I’ve been thinking about what to do with my Reddit account. I’m leaning towards leaving up my comments (for reasons you stated), but adding a disclaimer with a link to Lemmy.
That way, if anyone does still find my posts useful or entertaining, they know where to go for more.That’s actually a great idea!
Deleting and nuking posts and comments are only distroy what we and the entire reddit community built over the years and it will be a huge loss for all of us.
Reddit has already been destroyed by the actions taking place currently by spez and the site admins. There is no saving it anymore, not in any way that matters.
You’re right, it is a huge loss but don’t put that blame on the users deleting comments, that blame lies squarely on Reddit. The way I see it they don’t deserve the content we have provided them and the right thing to do is rebuild that information elsewhere. Here on the fediverse for example.
To keep your content on Reddit is to encourage web traffic to Reddit, which makes them money.
Maybe a happy medium is to take you best/most popular posts and repost it in here under a similar community, then edit your Reddit post to point to Lemmy for additional info…
Sorry, but I nuked my main account and my author account because there were comments and posts that reddit could slap ads on and profit from.
Anyone that wanted that content can damn well wait for me to repost it eventually. Fuck reddit, fuck spez lol.
