Please remember that this was exactly the behaviour promoted on Lemmy when the API drama ensued that drove many users with third party apps away from Reddit.
Not really for the comment in the picture, that one is too old, but many users here tried nuking all their comments with various methods. Some got reversed back by Reddit, others remain deleted.
Most of that knowledge was only deleted but not saved in any other way, which is why I have always been negative about this approach.
Could've archived it somewhere else first
Yes, exactly. Hardly anyone, if even a single person, tried to make any kind of process for that. But scripts to mass-delete all their account comments or mass-edit them to gibberish popped up like mushrooms.
I don't mind people deleting but you should only do it if you can preserve the content somewhere else.
Most of that knowledge was only deleted but not saved in any other way […]
That was perhaps the saddest part about leaving Reddit. I also opted for the edit-and-delete approach, because I didn't want Reddit to use my posts to train LLMs. But man. Years of trying to be helpful, sometimes really going out of my way to address something properly; gone.
But honestly, I don't know of any alternative. Even if I archived everything, it wouldn't be as accessible to anyone as it used to be on Reddit.
Reddit had (and imo still has) a monopoly on searchable advice from strangers. There's a reason they wanted Reddits data to train LLMs.
There aren't other noses for most things though, unfortunately. The narrow-interest forum of the late 90s is mostly extinct. Virtually all discussion boards condensed into reddit or Discord, and only one of those is actually searchable.
Why would you want to help a parasite
I don't want to help the parasite, but an alternative has to exist before you can push the public toward it. Burning everything down and telling everyone to build their own houses doesn't actually help anything.
This is a bit like the chicken and the egg though. "You have to keep your content on reddit because there's no strong alternative" just ensures there will never be an alternative. If you really want an alternative you can't keep supporting the beast.
Lemmy is not an actual alternative to reddit. There's fuck-all here unless you like Star Trek, center-left political memes, doomscrolling American politics, or Linux. Sports, gardening, Magic the Gathering, they're all ghost towns. Even the generic gaming community gets like one post per day with ~6 comments (god forbid you want discussion about a specific game). The fediverse does not have the critical mass to support people that are not specifically interested in the fediverse.
(opinion) Burning books is never the right answer.
This is why I deleted all my helpful replies
This kind of thing has been a problem on forums for years.
"How do I fix this specific problem?"
"NVM worked it out" no explanation
Reddit is now an advertising tool only. A slip land, ruins by orcs, the once lush forests have been usurped for sometime now.
@lemmy.world
Memorial to "rif is fun for Reddit" Android app, aka "reddit is fun", shut down after June 30, 2023
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@lemmy.world
Memorial to "rif is fun for Reddit" Android app, aka "reddit is fun", shut down after June 30, 2023
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And asking the same question in a new post results in:
"What worked for me was Product™ — it's not really magic: it's an amazing product! 💯💥
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