Mildly Infuriating

This is why I'm not deleting my reddit posts and comments. It's not worth making the whole world a tiny bit worse just to punish one company.

As much as reddit sucks right now, getting rid of decades of tech solutions that are not found anywhere else (not on the fediverse either) is not a solution. back up your reddit stuff somewhere and link to it from reddit, but don't delete it, and don't delete it and tell people 'because lemmy', people will hate lemmy.

This is why maintaining your account there and keep deleting your comments/posts will destroy Reddit. Do it, you have the power.

Obligatory relevant xkcd.

This has "searching desperately for a programming question only to find a stackexchange that's like "edit: nevermind I solved it" energy.

This has been a meme for such a long ass time (even before Reddit) that any deleted post in a support type thread (or on a meme of the subject) was subject to someone replying "Thanks that solved it!"

I saw a few people editing all their Reddit comments/posts with an explanation as to why the info is gone and they also gave a link to where they could find their content reposted on Lemmy. Thought that was pretty clever.

That's the intention of users deleting their staffs: making reddit less useful, and therefore, shrink its traffic.

That's the downside of having a website completely runned by the community and volunteer moderators. You mess with them, you lose half of their contents. 🤣

There's every chance that's Reddit's fault and the comment with the answer was deleted within the last month as part of a "burn it down on the way out" protest. If you're coming from a Google search, it may be annoying, but if you're posting here about it, you can probably imagine why it was deleted.

I mass edited all of my Reddit comments to say "Deleted" along with a message that I do not want Reddit profiting from my content when they treat their community so poorly. I felt that was more constructive than simply deleting the comments (and risk the admins restoring it if I were to delete my account entirely).

Prior to the shitstorm, I was active in many communities and provided lots of answers to technical topics; those answers are now lost outside of any post archives out there.

Of course it's not just deleted, it's removed by moderators.

Typical Reddit.

DenverCoder9

Actually worse, since you now know there is a solution. Even better when you find other links marking it as solved, that point back to the same place.

I didn't delete my comments. Mainly because Reddit had been renewing comments after deletion, so why waste my time over a thing out of my control now. But also just in case, for this. I doubt I posted anything very enlightening, but it's not for me to judge their value. Maybe someone did, and others would.

I just moved on, let things happen however they will.

I work IT, the solution I found yesterday on reddit had been processed deleted - it had not been captured by archive.org

That says removed. That means someone else removed it, but not the user.

I'm really torn by this. Should all this data be preserved for the betterment of society, or is that what Reddit should get for killing their goose that laid golden eggs..

I replaced every comment I ever made with a protest message.

Shredding my account may have left some holes like this

Idk what you're talking about. But I like "Rexxit". That's classy AF.