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I already gave up from Reddit long time ago. Deleted all
That place is becoming more and more of a shithole. Bots, Ads, trolls, garbage mods… deleted the app last month.
I quit reddit, cold turkey, the day they shut off free API access for 3rd parties. Except for a couple of fairly niche subs I haven’t missed it at all.
Same here. I’ve been better off ever since.
Fuck Reddit
Damn you Spez.
Nice of them to protect their (users’) content from AI scrapping. So that they can charge AI companies for it instead.
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
So reddit will become even less valuable
reddit can go fuck itself.
That’s the kind of talk that can get you banned from Reddit. 😜
I imagine almost my entire Post history can get me banned on Reddit.
Oh no, someone might not be paying them for their user generated content (!)
To be fair, it’s probably best that history forgets this period of the web…
that history forgets this period
and thus it repeats
They can keep their shit for themselves, stopped caring a long time ago.
Fuck Spez
OK, I stopped posting on Reddit but left my account and comments in place because I considered them part of the public record. If Reddit is taking that record private, it’s time for me to start removing my content from the platform.
Does anyone know if historical Reddit content will remain in IA? If not, I’m going to have to back up years of content somewhere else.
Reddit is archived and available as torrent up until the API change.
There are some browser extensions that will edit your comments and make them each a random a bunch of random words. I do not know how effective they are so I cannot vouch for them.
I know that if you tried to just delete the comment, the information would still be there but the username is deleted. Which is frustrating, I didn’t know that until I had already deleted every post and comment, went back to make sure the job was done. It wasn’t. I just came to terms that at least I wasn’t contributing to their hub of knowledge anymore.
You can’t remove it. It’s there forever.
Time to just ignore them and scrape it anyways
When reddit has mutated a few more times. They start erasing stuff themselves. It will be lost to time and that fills me with hope.
Not that reddit isn’t hot garbage right now, and has been for a while actually, but there’s a lot of people here who have glazed over the reason why reddit instituted this policy.
AI companies are scraping the Wayback Machine. This is something that should concern all of us.
Why?
