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This is my issue with redditors deleting all their content from reddit. I agree with leaving because of the policy changes, but I think that adopting a scorched earth policy, mostly harms other users.
On some level, protest is about harming other people, at least mildly. Protests are frustrating. Protests are interrupting. Protested make it more difficult for people to do what they want.
This is by design. This is part of the point.
Protests that aren't inconveniencing people are protests that can be safely ignored.
It's all the better, though, when those inconveniences can be paired with a clear alternative for people to turn to to have their needs met.
The distinguishment needs to be made that inconveniencing people who cannot make the needed change makes the entire protest immediately irrelevant.
For example, protesting in the middle of a highway does not inconvenience anyone that has the power to make a change. Those politicians are far away from the protest and don't care because it doesn't effect them or their pocketbook.
For Reddit, making it inconvenient for other users directly effects Reddit. Less and less user traffic is a major inconvenience for a tech company attempting to IPO. And they have the power to change. However, at this point the damage is beyond rolling back, I think.
Indeed. I at least think they should repost the helpful information here to Lemmy so that users still have access to it, I understand driving traffic away from Reddit but we should keep that useful information open to the community.
Very often that info is the result of a full conversation:
- I have problem A.
- Try B
- Not, working, I get error C
- Ah, change D in your config
- Now it's working, thanks.
That means automatation is more complicated, and there's also the legal aspect.
It's still very possible, but it probably stops quite a few people that considered this.
You're absolutely correct. It would need to be done manually and I understand people not wanting to put that effort in, I just feel bad about the information being lost.
I think many were just that disgusted still - but I do agree. Why I left mine if posted under technical subs - otherwise I removed mine by overwriting.
Yeah, personally I would have preferred keeping the content with some pretext like [This user has opted to leave reddit because of changes listed (here) and (here). Their content will remain in case someone needs this answer in the future, but will be providing new content over at Lemmy).
The AI is already trained, deleting it didn't do much, or if the AI will continue to train hopefully text like that will start popping up in it.