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I logged in to Reddit today (self.reddit)

submitted 2 years ago by Tygr to c/reddit

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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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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sad, yes. And I'm willing to admit that it would hurt the people who have nothing to do with Reddit.

But if it keeps those people away from Reddit, see Reddit as not the place to find information, see Reddit as a place that was, full of [deleted] comments, see Reddit as an awful dumpster fire, it is worth it.

It's too easy to see Reddit as the Library of Alexandria, but it isn't. It was a place where people willingly shared information to other people, sure, but it now isn't, and it's more important for people to be made aware of that: It is no longer a place for sharing information.

EDIT: Typos and shit.