Recap? Like Facebook?
JFC there was a time reddit would burn the fuck to the ground if devs even proposed such an idea.
I know, right? That place is definitely not what it used to be. These days it’s a gentrified Disneyland with far shittier mods and admins.
I remember people commenting on other people’s avatars and I was like, wtf are you people talking about?
I miss RIF.
That was a good 10+ years ago. Ever since the redesign, the default Reddit experience kept getting more mainstream. Many of us were able to avoid it by using old.reddit and 3rd party mobile apps, but the apiocalypse ended that for most users. Hence, why a good many users joined Lemmy about 6 months ago.
TL:DR- The enshitification of Reddit was a gradual thing that finally reached a tipping point for many here last June.
I find it cute you’re explaining reddit to me like I wasn’t on it for more than a decade and came to Lemmy in the June exodus lol.
Yeah, I was like who’s that explanation for? Are there people here that weren’t on reddit a year ago?
I like to see the longterm perspective, something that wasn’t always apparent with my daily use and staying on old.reddit
I’ve deleted my account but only after I deleted or edited all my posts and comments. I actually used a script to edit all comments into a protest comment about reddit. If the script count edit, I had it delete
It actually made searching for solutions considerably worse. It was kind of a shitty bandwagon to sit on, would have made far more sense to back all of those posts up in an easy to index place. It would have actually made sense, as it would have made a new repository of knowledge.
That is a price that i am willing to pay. I don’t want Reddit to be making ad-revenue on all this info when they more or less highjacked it like that
That script does nothing. They can reverse it. A guy here was talking about that. He had been a very heavy user in some tech support sub there. He used one of those accounts scrubbers and then went back to look a few weeks later and everything had been restored.
If I remember right he said he was one of the more well-known users on that subreddit? So he was probably somebody they looked at as being ‘valuble’
The script works fine. What actually happened was that some subreddits were in blackout mode and therefore the comments were invisible but not yet deleted. When they returned the comments became visible again. Anything the script missed was because of the comments temporarily not being visible from the API. Simply running the script again was all that was needed once subreddits returned. My comments have stayed deleted after that.
I wrote with reddit support asking them to not restore my content and asking them to confirm this on writing. If I ever find any of my content I’ll definetelly report them to my local data authorities and I told them I’d do so when writing with them
