https://shreddit.com/ - I hurt the bastards and you can too.
I’m curious if anyone else can replicate this, but I used redact.dev to delete my post/comment history. Then I requested for the data download using GDPR as my reasoning.
At this point, my comment history et al was gone. I was about to delete my account too, but I figured I’d wait for the download link in my messages.
That was three days ago, I’ve checked for the link every day and instead of it appearing. All my posts & comments have been restored in a piecemeal fashion.
1 comment after the first day, 5 comments the next day, and so on.
These were comments that redact.dev had edited, then deleted.
Still no data download link tho
I used Power Delete Suite to do the same.
Thanks. Just deleted all my comments, posts, and votes on my 12 year Reddit account.
I have no intention of going back. Besides the smaller subreddits the place has been absolutely trashed for years now. I’d rather stick and help grow smaller communities.
On the one hand I lean into a hard disagree with this idea. I get wanting to protect ones privacy but on the other hand that’s so much information being purged that could help others. I use Google to search reddit for my problems everyday and id be so heartbroken to not be able to do that anymore.
Why not move your content here? Keeping it on reddit only really helps reddit in the long run, not its users.
There was an internet before reddit, and there will still be an internet after reddit. If everyone is avoiding to making a move, absolutely nothing will change.
Many new people are looking for new content here, so this is also the perfect time to start adding that valuable information to more than one place. This “blackout” is FAR from the only possible downfall of using reddit as a main source of information. Hypothetically, one day reddit could get shut down for legal issues, they could sell everything to someone who destroys it, they could decide to openly sell ALL user data on a whim, and more. Neither you nor I could stop those things if they happened. I don’t know about you, but I don’t like the idea of all of that information disappearing altogether suddenly. At least with this, we have a chance of saving that information beyond what reddit specifically allows.
My man, that’s exactly why you should do it. To inflict as much pain as possible on Reddit, especially if it disrupts them and others from problem solving. I too have used Reddit a great deal to solve issues. I recognise what you’re saying, but somethings gotta give my friend. Reddit is a evil coporation that’s feeding it’s users to the wolves. Completely sabotaging their website and transfering here is in my opinion, the way forward. It’s 10 steps backwards, in orders to make 100 steps forward.
The idea of Shreddit takes me back to when I first joined Reddit in 2011. At the time, I was in my mid 20s going to rock/metal concerts pretty often. A friend of mine encouraged me to sign up for Reddit and to check out the Shreddit community. It took me ages to figure out she was talking about /r/metal.
I bring that up to make the point that community discovery in my early days of Reddit was pretty difficult, but I eventually figured it out. In time, I’m sure the same thing will happen with Lemmy.
