What the title says.
A certain Mr. Huffman is making Reddit, which was once the frontpage of the internet (it still is, albeit for different reasons) a living hell for us.
Being in the coding/development trade as my profession, I am a huge advocate of anything FOSS, so when I found Lemmy, I did not look back.
Thanks to PowerDeleteSuite, I got rid of all my contents from Reddit. I did hear reasonings like “leave them there, for the benefits of lurkers” - but nope. I do not trust the sorting algorithm of Reddit anymore, I do not believe people will get to see my content if needed. So yep, blow 'em up.
I kept a close eye for a while on whether my posts and comments get resurrected (yes I did read about people experiencing this) - but I guess PDS did a good job for me.
So there you go, Snoo - you are cute - but creepy Stevie is fucking with your cuteness, and fucking with all of us.
You're making great progress.
I made sure to edit all my post history to gibberish before I deleted my account the other day. cheers.
Yay! More Lemmies! Now post and comment. You're already doing well on that, though lol.
Ooooh… so, not "your seven year old's" account.
Anyway… as a person who searches the internet for answers, Reddit holds many of them. Some of them are wrong answers but some of them are actually helpful. It sucks that everything is consolidated into a handful of resources and people no longer publish their own content on their own sites. It makes for very few organizations holding the keys to "the world's information". So when organizations such as DPReview close down and threaten to remove decades of user created content, the community is disadvantaged. Still, I'm not sold on a decentralized system being a solution. The content is still housed on a sever with keys held by individuals. I don't see how it's possible for Lemmy to become a crawlable resource when ease of migration is built into the system.
Mine is from January 2006 and I am very tempted to delete everything and nuke the thing.
I agree, don't leave it there. When people don't find content on reddit, they will look for alternatives like Lemmy.
