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“Reddit cannot survive without its moderators. It cannot.” - The Verge (www.theverge.com)
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That’s a recent quote from Reddit’s VP of community, Laura Nestler. Here’s more of it: This week, Reddit has been telling protesting moderators that if they keep their communities private, the company will take action against them. Any actions could happen as soon as this afternoon.

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[–] maple 30 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Reddit can't run without its moderators and it can't monetize without data. I encourage everyone who's defected to Lemmy from Reddit to wipe their old Reddit account using Redact. I just wiped my old account of 15 years worth of comments and post history.

[–] Pixelotes 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm waiting for a couple of days until I'm sure my deleted comments stay deleted. After that, I'll wipe my 6 years old account.

[–] Purgid 1 points 1 year ago

That's how I'm doing it too - overwrite everything, then once I can confirm it hasn't been reverted, purge the account. Fuck the way Reddit treated the mods that made their business possible.

[–] capt_wolf 6 points 1 year ago

I wiped my 10 year old account last night. Everything except my last post telling spez to fuck off and that he and his board have no soul or humanity.

It was hard seeing it all go, but if life has taught me anything, it's that all things are impermanent and we should always be prepared to let go.

[–] xT1TANx 5 points 1 year ago

There was a YouTube vid posted a few days ago showing that posts are being reinstated after deletion.

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

As much as I would like to do this I have too many posts there have legitimately helped people who were struggling with things.

I've had people respond to months old posts thanking me on several occasions for helping them. I can't in good conscience remove thay just to spite reddit, and I do a lot of stuff out of spite.