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Today, not in a moment of necessity, but a moment of protest, I logged in to Reddit because I found tons of comments and posts listed on old Reddit when you sort by top or controversial.

I logged in to Reddit to destroy even more of my comments that were missed by Power Delete Suite.

It seems a lot of people are doing this. I’ve seen some interesting stuff here and Reddit with screenshots of deleted comments with “this solved my problem” below the deletion.

The way I look at it, ALL of my content was posted via Apollo, just like all of my comments and posts are through WefWef here. If Reddit admins felt the API shouldn’t be free, then my submissions are also not free for them to monetize and get traffic from.

I know for a fact I’ve had 100+ #1 ranked longtail SEO posts in Reddit before I deleted everything. Many of them were getting tons of traffic based on the amount of follow-up private messages received years later.

I do expect Reddit’s traffic to go down as a whole because of everyone leaving but also because of how many removed their content.

That IPO of theirs is going so well.

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[–] Aizenn 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nothing insane, but I had a 8 year account with 150k karma that I earned through informative posts, endearing pictures of my pug, and a few shitposts here and there. Banned for zero reason (yes i know, but seriously) by a mod that had an "in" with a Reddit admin, i'm sure of it.

Anyways, just went and deleted it, after it being a very, very constant in my life. Its been quite the cathartic experience, and somewhat freeing even. Mobile and reddit are a dangerous combination for the thinkers out there.

[–] BendyLemmy 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

150k karma that I earned

Actually, this is one of the biggest issues with Reddit - assuming Karma has value and getting narcissistic feedback.

I got more than that replying to DadJokes with a quickly googled PUN once per day.

[–] Aizenn 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, Reddit loves upvoting their Puns. Don’t get me wrong, I didn’t get an inflated sense of self from the karma, but it was important to me as someone who mostly posted content and not comments.

Enjoying lemmy a lot right now though, including the new client I found for mobile.