Does anybody else feel dirty when they visit reddit?
Does anybody else feel dirty when they visit reddit?
I don't know man, but I feel like I'm supporting a maniac CEO with every second I spend on reddit.
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I am enjoying the last 2 weeks of Apollo, Lemmy has exceeded my expectations and I am going to be deleting my Reddit account on the 30th. Quality of Reddit has nosedived in the last two weeks so I don’t feel like I am missing anything.
I made the decision to wipe my account a few days early and monitor it. I'm glad I did, because Reddit has been un-deleting and un-deleting my posts and comments. I've had to re-edit/delete about ~300 comments and ~30 posts since yesterday.
They're un-deleting content that users are choosing to delete, that's disgusting
Yeah that goes too far for me. What if they change it to Nazi prop and ransomware you to your boss or family?
Part of it is there are still subreddits moving back to public from private, and you cannot delete comments/posts on closed subreddits.
Did that yesterday too.
I wonder if because I used a fork of PowerDeleteSuite with a 5 seconds delay added (to not trip Redddits' API rate limits) I'm not seeing my posts / comments dug up again by Reddit.
I used edit / overwrite + delete.
please dont delete your account.
- you could talk about lemmy and maybe bring people here
- You could bring your old posts here
- you could exchange your messages with nonsense:
https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/146lloj/protip_if_you_replace_the_content_of_your/ - you can sell it to a bot network
": if you replace the content of your posts/comments with nonsense, you'll make Reddit Inc. (including its CEO) lose money."
"There's a good chance that those API price changes were motivated by large businesses using Reddit to train their large language models (LLMs) with. Stuff like GPT-3, Google's BERT, Facebook's Galactica, stuff like this. In other words, your content will be used to train bots. (It is, already.)
Those models can be "poisoned" with random, machine generated nonsense. Poisoned data is worse than useless: it makes the model worse. So for each person replacing their Reddit content with nonsense, those businesses will be willing to pay Reddit Inc. less and less for API access."
"Here is a mini-tutorial on how to do this. It's for desktop users but you'll likely be able to do the same from a phone browser.
- [Choose 1/3] Open Zompist's gen. Take off the line saying "ki|či", and click "Generate". You'll get some random babble like "Bepe topioi kabi brete i kropra", copy it somewhere.
- [Choose 2/3] Open https://sebpearce.com/bullshit/ to get an entire bullshit article
- [Choose 3/3] Open https://nonsense.x2d.org/ to get a bullshit sentence, i suggest getting a few ones.
- Open your Reddit profile and drag the button of Power Delete Suite to it.
- [Optional] Check the box saying "prepare local backup of items", if you want to save your content elsewhere.
- Uncheck "remove comments". You want to replace them with babble, not remove them.
- [Optional] uncheck "remove posts". It depends if you post mostly self posts or if you post links/pics. Use your reasoning.
- Check "Edit comments / self posts". It should open an input box for text; place the babble from Zompist's gen there. Then click "process".
- Just wait!
- [Optional] Click to download the backup of the items.
If you don't like Zompist's gen and/or Power Delete Suite, you can use any generator and/or Reddit mass edition tool of your choice."
and yes, i am somewhat still on reddit but i think i do more against them when my app does not work anymore (to spread lemmy or information) i will follow this process
I agree and If your interested, a plug-in called shreddit will do all that work for you easily. Just make use of it before the api changes.