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I just edited every comment in my 7 reddit accounts and made every comment say to move to Lemmy (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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You don't need to DELETE all your comments, you can edit them all. I used the PowerDeleteSuite. Set the options to delete my posts, but not delete my comments. I then had it edit my comments with a paragraph about Lemmy and moving to it.

This is a great way to advertise Lemmy, over the long term.

So far it's at a staggering 7500 comments edited. All advertising Lemmy.

So that's an option. Then it's done and reddit is behind me. Lemmy all the way.

I hope this helps

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

That's an amazing approach, thanks for sharing!

[–] oryx 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Good approach, but I'm personally not deleting anything. I've made some helpful posts and comments that I want to show up in searches in the future. If I didn't have those, I'd totally take the same approach, but I'm all for archiving everything on the internet, and I'm not gonna let some doofus of a man change that.

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

There is a feature to not edit comments that have more than X upvotes. So in theory, most useful information should be upvoted more than the rest.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Megachad here. I might do the same. F reddit!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Rip I wish I saw this earlier

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Thought about doing this. I'm glad Power Delete Suite has this option.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for the suggested tool! Reading up on it now. For others interested.

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

Plan to do this within the next several days.

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

For now it does

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

umm... yes, this is brilliant!

It would also be nice to be able to post some alternative comms if you know what sub you are in. then you can say "join this Comm!"

[–] psychothumbs 1 points 1 year ago

Nice, just did the same

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

Excellent idea! Would ne vert hard to censor singe they are comments sprinkled all overt the site by multiple users. Also gives larger visibility.

[–] fluffyrex 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I found this solution, too, and implemented it!

And then a handful of subs perma-banned me for spamming my pro-fediverse replacement message that I edited into my comments. Still worth it, I'm leaving anyway, right? BUT a whole, whole bunch of comments were left unaffected by PowerDeleteSuite's script, so here I am, editing scores (hundreds? thousands?) of messages by hand so I don't piss off/make more work for more mods by using a script again. 🤣 Also, I didn't really think about how it would look in some of the supportive communities when my compassionate replies turned into a fediverse advertisement. Oops.