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I am really conflicted on this. I agree in principal that Reddit shouldn't benefit from my years of comments and posts, but I can't count on how many times I have searched for something and found an old Reddit post or comment that was just what I needed.
Most of my Reddit comments or posts are probably not very useful, but some of it might be and I am not against other random people can find and read what I have written through the years. Reddit as a whole is a vast collection of good advice and insight that is valuable to preserve. Sure it might be archived on archive.org but that is hardly searchable for most people.
really the only thing I found on reddit that wasn't readily available elsewhere was "how to get X game to run in a particular way" or something equally inane.
While it's a vast collection of advice and such, I think it's debatable whether it's good. It's also a bastion of fascism and the admins seem to be encouraging it. I would argue reddit themselves played as big a role in promoting the Trump campaign and presidency as Twitter did. Maybe bigger, because it gave them a marshalling platform.
All in all I don't think it's even a close decision, the plusses outweigh the minuses by a lot.