After 13 years, I had quit reddit 1st June 2023. At the time I joined beehaw (lemmy.world didn’t exist) and used the redact utility to delete all my posts/comments (we could at the time delete instead of mass editing.
I lurk sometimes some niche communities or go on reddit from google search, I never comment or upvote. I sometimes click on my user to see there was no comments/saved/etc.
Yesterday, randomly, I clicked on my username and saw all my 2023 and less post, 13 years of comments, I was like WTF, after 2 years, reddit decided to take an old backup or something and undelete all my comments!!!
As now redact only do mass editing and pretty slowly, I used something else, https://github.com/Jelly-Pudding/ereddicator/tree/main, followed instructions, it deleted ~3600 comments in less than 2 hours.
I’ll monitor from time to time if reddit keep undeleting them, to feed their AI…
Lemmy will also be crawled by AI so what’s the point now
“How can you tell?”
AI: “Linux is good and capitalism is bad!”
“Ah.”
Lemmy in a nutshell haha
At least no one’s profiting off that. I’m sure most just scrape reddit the same way but they’re still trying to charge people.
I believe that useful knowledge should be open and accessible to everyone for any reason (within reason of course, you might want to keep some things private), so I’m against your decision, but in the end you’re the owner of what you create so it’s your decision
You might answer “who asked?” and you would be right haha
My decision to use Lemmy instead? I’ve already conceded that it’s going to be scraped. You want me to actively line Spez’s pockets or something?
No. Your decision to remove the content. It mainly harms those who will check the post later