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    Sounds like something you would do if you were about to remove a very popular feature like old reddit in the coming months.

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        I miss it. It has subs for everything: niche hobbies, small video games, IRL games, etc.

        Still not worth going back.

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          Same. This is why I hope Reddit continues to get worse. I want another exodus, and I want my niche communities back…

          Still not going back tho.

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          I mean, sure, sometimes it’s unavoidable as a resource because it contains years of info but I don’t really miss the social aspects of it at all. As reddit slowly has become worse and worse I’ve just realised social media isn’t really that useful to me. I do hang out on Lemmy and can’t say that I don’t enjoy it but I don’t keep up actively on any social platform anymore.

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        They’ve done a lot to neuter that.

        Not sure on the technicals but lots of rate limiting to prevent PDS from being able to get everything and outright shenanigans to make posts not appear in the old view which also prevents PDS from deleting them. Not to mention un-deleting comments after a while (even if you use the option to edit before deleting).

        So run it early and run it often. And then just delete the account for the rest.

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        A dev here. Not a reddit dev, but a dev. Deleting thing online doesn’t necessarily mean real deletion of the content. For instance, every post and comment is a row of a “big notebook” (a table on a database) and every row is split by columns for specific data: who’s the author, where it was posted (which community), what’s the content and, sometimes, a yes/no column called “is it deleted?”. When you delete such post, you are writing a “yes” inside that column, without actually replacing the content. It’s an oversimplified explanation of how platforms register posts, sometimes there’s a “version” table (think of it as multiple notebooks keeping track of different things simultaneously) that will keep the different versions of an edited post/comment, so they will remain intact inside such table.

        Tl;dr: once on the internet, always on the internet (unfortunately). Especially if we’re dealing with a corporation that profits over user’s data. Rare cases where a thing on the internet finds real oblivion.

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        They already have your comments. Deleting your comments only harms future users who are looking for whatever information you shared.

        So hopefully if you deleted any informative comments you moved them elsewhere, right?

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          This doesn’t make sense. What value do your comments have to reddit if they aren’t presented to users? Harming these future users is how you harm reddit.

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        Some users have seen their deleted content return later. So yes you should try but don’t assume it will be permanent

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          Can confirm! I’ve run that exact utility multiple times. Each time it finds a few posts that were restored.

          But it’s like 99.5% effective in deleting posts. So it’s better than nothing.

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          I’ve checked a few times, and I’ve had a few posts show up after I thought I got them all. I think what is going on is that the delete script can’t get posts that are on hidden subreddits that you aren’t subscribed to. So when people are done protesting or whatever and they set the subreddit to public the posts come back.

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        Might be better to replace old posts with links to the fediverse. Or since those are probably filtered “Google search ‘Reddit alternatives’ and look for the mouse…” or some shit like that.

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        Would do so but they bring back allot of posts, and besides I deleted my account. I couldn’t take them making it more and more difficult for me to do what I enjoyed on the site.

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    Enshitificication of Reddit continues!

    The beatings will continue until community morale increases… and of course: profits.

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    Fuck /u/Spez

    Sorry; the above is mandatory these days when talking about enshittified reddit.

    I’d say it very strongly looks like Spez is doing exactly what it looks like. I can attest from my days as a meta-subreddit-mod and reddit mod that this behavior tracks exactly with any time Spez thinks he’s planning an unpopular change; they pucker up hard and start bracing things they think will be affected.

    Probably, it is Old.Reddit; because it likely does not add to their revenue. Old.reddit interface was not designed with advertising in mind and it is purely functional first only.

    Of course; by editing or removing old.reddit interfaces; they will be lobotomizing their moderation teams. The new reddit interface provides far less control and granular information; making it difficult at times to moderate without falling back to the old.reddit interface.

    Undoubtedly they will likely also try to freeze, disable, or cripple AutoModerator /config/ pages, if they haven’t already, or revert them as well when this new enshittification masquerading as a “small positive change” drops. It’s hard to say.

    Instead of recognizing their moderators as major stakeholders who have chosen to build their communities on reddit; they have chosen violence, and are treating them like enslaved serfs. Hmm…I wonder if that means they could possibly be breaking modern slavery laws… Until Next Time!

    https://media1.tenor.com/images/ce7115153e3ae261c59341f516a8ac81/tenor.gif

    Fuck /u/Spez

    Leave reddit now.

    <3 Melody.

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    The funny thing is this will do absolutely nothing to prevent a sitewide protest. There are so many ways for mods to effectively destroy a subreddit or redirect it while remaining public.

    In fact, and this is the important blindness that Reddit continues to have, the mods usually need to work hard daily just to keep a sub usable. Reddit is so dismissive of that effort and so brazenly presumes upon their volunteer labor that they seem to think subs just continue on sheer momentum, if only they could stop mods from sabotaging them.

    Mod posts every day pointing to a new community at Lemmy or elsewhere, stopping using bot removal tools, stopping troll culling, marking NSFW, etc will do the job.

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      There are so many ways for mods to effectively destroy a subreddit or redirect it while remaining public.

      custom subreddit CSS: black text on black background

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    Well they don’t want to hurt the feelings of the nazis they protect. Keep reminding them that 400 thousand Americans died in WW2 to give us the right to punch nazis in the face.

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      dunno, for 16 months now, the only time I went there was after a google search and the answer was in a reddit thread… There is 15+ years of answers to various obscur topics and all, “unfortunately”

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        They’re starting to get stale though. Sometimes yes, there will be a 15+ years old thread that’s still relevant, but there will also be so many cases that the latest post is 2+ years old and no longer applicable or outdated.

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          And the newer threads (from the last 1-2 years) often just aren’t that helpful. Lots of people who don’t know what they’re talking about, or comment just to say they have the same problem.

          I can usually get a helpful answer by trying a couple search engines or just fighting with Google, but it takes longer than it should sometimes.