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The blackout is starting to have a financial impact on Reddit, but we must stay dark!
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this post was submitted on 14 Jun 2023
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I never gave them money, but I gave them free content. That is now done and gone. As soon as Apollo's API is deleted, I'm editing all of my old comments and posts to remove any content and let readers know what. Some of it was very helpful stuff to help others troubleshoot PC and server issues.
@Nogami @Jessica You realize that id you delete your account that has all that content the comments and post will be there but the author will say ,[deleted] nobody will know it came from you only reddit will know
That's why you use shreddit. It can go through and remove all of your old posts. I used to have it running on a chron to remove all comments that had no or negative votes after a few weeks. You can actually set it to edit the comment into gibberish as well to muck with the SEO.
That's why I'm not deleting my account, only editing my posts to something like "I have revoked Reddit's license for this post due to the actions of Reddit's management towards 3rd party app authors. You may contact me on Lemmy instead".
@Nogami Sweet yes I updated my Bio on reddit to point to lemmy and Mastodon. I'm happy here
Does internet archive preserve these? I agree it's attracting clicks for reddit and should be removed, but a lot of really good information is about to be lost if people do this en masse.
I think that's the point though. I'd rather have all of my posts be edited to vanish instead of contributing them for free to an evil corporation.
Yeah but reddit shouldn't be getting clicks or revenue from the internet archive since it's just a snapshot. I hate to see knowledge destroyed, whatever the reason. I just hope there was an effort to preserve it.
I can't help but feel reddit is in a "heads I win, tails you lose" position right now with its users. They don't really need us. The formula for user engagement has been perfected by all the other social medias that came before it and in a short time I think reddit will be the same. Without an archive it seems like this is inflicting disproportionate harm on the community.
Wiping your account would reduce their clicks from searches, but as someone who uses a lot of open source software, this is a huge loss for all the tech help posts. If I could just search the archive for it though, that'd be great.
Are you going to manually edit all posts and comments or is there a tool one can use to bulk edit?
Power Delete Suite is the one people seem to be recommending, though I'm sure there are others.