I installed the official Reddit app and went on it to see what the old place was looking like now. My inbox was filled with spam. The “home feed” shows subs I never subscribed to. There are so many ads. Between the ads and the the extra subs in the feed, it’s hard to just scroll. I also noted a lot of spam in some of the subs. Maybe they are subs with no mods? I’m not sure what’s up with that.

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      I ran shreddit to delete rest of my comments off the GDPR files that power delete suite missed. And it’s really fun seeing everything be deleted as the script is run.

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        They’re your comments and I understand the sentiment, but I do wish people didn’t delete their Reddit comments. Preserving what’s there will help people who look in the future - we just don’t have to add to it, and can (and should) devote our energies elsewhere.

        Preserving but just adding a line after every comment directing people to Lemmy or wherever the user went would be much better.

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          That kind of built up history is exactly what keeps Reddit relevant though. It’s been the go-to place for so long that it stays just because it is where all the content is. And now with LLM’s any content you leave is going to get turned into a chatGPT bot to generate fake engagement for their ad numbers.

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            To be fair, LLMs are still going to be able to scrape your content, and I’d say even more so since individual instance owners do not have big lawyer teams and dedicated server maintaining teams like in Reddit to protect their content from being scraped. My personal take is to just keep commenting and posting on the Fediverse and make this a better place over time, and just use adblockers whenever you need Reddit to find information.

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              No, but there is no monetary gain to scrape and repost on Lemmy. Reddit makes money when they do that, which means they’ll encourage it more.

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            The built up history gives Reddit momentum, but it’s not like when you Google a solution to some tech issue and find a Reddit post from 2017 that solves it, that’s materially contributing to Spez’s IPO-chasing metrics. No, that’s all about engagement, and active current users.

            When you delete your history, you’re just reducing the total information available to random people who are looking for it. It may feel good lighting it on fire but that’s about it.

            If we stop using it, it’s just a historical record. Stopping using it is enough.

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      r/redditseppuku

      it is time. a month away from my reddit account has proven I don’t have any desire to return. Damn Spez, way to shoot yourself in the face you fucking bellend.

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        Don’t know what you mean. I don’t have hard statistics but it seems pretty apparent that Reddit weathered the storm well, just as he said they would.

        Sure, some users got very angry with Spez and Reddit but ultimately didn’t go anywhere. They continue to complain about Reddit on Reddit.

        Sure, some users left entirely but I’m certain many many more chose to subject themselves to the data-mining, ads, and pop-up notifications in the official app, thereby continuing to contribute to increasing Reddit’s value.

        If Twitter has taught us anything, it’s that once you’ve built a sufficient userbase, there’s almost nothing they won’t tolerate.

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          I don’t have hard statistics but it seems pretty apparent that Reddit weathered the storm well, just as he said they would.

          did I say I had hard statistics saying Reddit was going down?

          No, no I didn’t, but you imagined that and just ran with a few paragraphs retorting it lol.

          Damn Spez, way to shoot yourself in the face you fucking bellend.

          he’s lost thousands of mods. you know, the idiots (like me) who did exceptional amounts of free labor, keeping the place clean and fun. you can already see the effect in multiple subs, the spammers are back in force.

          that’s how he’s shot himself in the face. They’re never going to go back after this shit, and now that lemmy exists, people are moving on to the better alternative.

          LOL, oh yeah, Twitter’s doing great. How’s that advertising working for 'em?

          https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/05/technology/twitter-ad-sales-musk.html

          Please, don’t reply to something you’re making up in your head in response.

          bwahahahaha all the new rising posts on reddit are crypto scams. https://lemm.ee/post/6038434

          that’s working out great for spezzo

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            did I say I had hard statistics saying Reddit was going down?

            …did I say you did?

            No, no I didn’t, but you imagined that

            Please, don’t reply to something you’re making up in your head in response.

            Pot meet kettle.

            oh yeah, Twitter’s doing great. How’s that advertising working for 'em?

            What does advertising have to do with the number of people on the platform?

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              silly me, I didn’t know how accurate your username was. gonna block this idiotic discourse because you either can’t or won’t read, or are just shitposting.

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                More like blocking me because of what a giant buffoon you’ve made of yourself

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      I keep my account up because I’m in subs that have technical help for certain hardware and software and haven’t migrated anywhere. I have lots of answers to issues that can be very helpful when searching. It sucks that Spez has forced so many people to delete important help like that.