How social media’s biggest user protest rocked Reddit
A mass user protest six months ago over technical tweaks had big downstream effects, and now the ‘front page of the internet’ is changed for ever
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Whatever. Don't care. I left my account open but scrubbed twelve years of content, including hundreds (probably thousands) of answers to technical questions and dozens of posts (including guides) to which my reddit post was the only or one of the only search results.
If corporations want to profit from my knowledge, they can do so by exploiting the open source community, just like always.
Same. In the brief window when we still had the API, I deleted every thing I’ve ever posted. Every helpful comment, all the well crafted answers to technical questions. I know they are in the wayback machine somewhere but at least Reddit can’t sell them.
it's cute you think they didn't already sell them.
I used the API to scrub my comments and also did a GDPR request ... they still have plenty of shit the API didn't touch.
It's worth googling "reddit /u/username" and rechecking your post history (including changing between hot/top/controversial and different time ranges) every few months.
Googling will show up a lot of the posts/comments you have missed using 3rd party deletion tools.
Reddit caches sometimes pull older content from the database or whatever, and you get "access" to it again.
