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Please don't zero out your account from over there if you've contributed answers or resources. (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm fearful of people going redditZero and deleting their years-old accounts, as reddit has become a vast trove of information for a vast number of systems. If I go dark and delete, it won't be everything. Memes and regular conversations may go, but I'll be sure to leave every technical response I've ever given (or even edit it if I have since learned more precise information). It feels like so many are ready to cut off their nose to spite their face. The community we had was built by us collectively and enriched by the content we shared. I feel like despite reddit literally doing everything wrong, by deleting our collective wisdom, we aren't hurting reddit as much as we're hurting our own community of sysadmins.

Please consider that we are facing a Wisdom of the Ancients situation here, and I sure as shit know that I don't want to be the one on the other end of seeing "deleted", then "Thanks that worked!" in my future.

Just food for thought.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I initially agreed with you. I'd hate to see all of that communal knowledge lost.

Reading the other replies, I am not so sure. Do they deserve to continue capitalizing on other peoples knowledge? Yes and No. They did supply a service without which that collection would have had to be assembled somewhere else. But I don't think they should be able to capitalize on it forever.

With the archive team and their efforts, I am less worried about "Wisdom of the Ancients" situation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I just hope the archives will be easily accessible and searchable, preferably without having to specifically leave the search engine to search them, otherwise the knowledge will still, in practice for most people, be inaccessible.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

The data should be scraped and on Archive.org. I copied my posts and references, to share here.

Reddit will get my CCPA delete notice. Reddit is a failed experiment just like GeoCities, Yahoo, MySpace, Windows, Facebook, and Google. I don't want or need them. The data I shared on these platforms is irrelevant because I am here. Ask away. I am the value, not them.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Fuck Reddit, nuke it all!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

https://lemmy.world/comment/161739

All those in EU can ask reddit for the entirety of your data as a GDPR request, much easier than downloading it yourself, especially since some apps have limits to how many posts they can fetch.

How to request your reddit data https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/360043048352-How-do-I-request-a-copy-of-my-Reddit-data-and-information-

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

My account will remain, as I reminisce on my posts from time to time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I'm torn on this and haven't decided what to do. At the very least they will not be getting my knowledge posted over there any longer.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I don’t care about Reddit; they are just going to profit from our data. Delete your posts if you want to. The collective knowledge/wisdom is within the community and if we all move to Lemmy, that knowledge comes with us.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Don't worry, Reddit are restoring comments and posts anyway.