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Power Delete Suite for Reddit

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Re: Power Delete Suite for Reddit

#11

Post by Remmy »

deanCommie wrote: post #5

I guess this is on the frontpage because some people, in reaction to Reddit monetizing their content and ruining their experience, would prefer to burn it all down and delete all their history as a protest. I get the wrath. I don't get the action. I have 15 years of history on reddit. Half of my life. It's a journal, a testament to my growth as a person. I've said brilliant things, I've said heinous ones. I see some…

Considering that as of 50 minutes ago, the only way to read comments is on their new interface, i'd be slightly worried about your content.

Re: Power Delete Suite for Reddit

#12

Post by tapland »

deanCommie wrote: post #5

I guess this is on the frontpage because some people, in reaction to Reddit monetizing their content and ruining their experience, would prefer to burn it all down and delete all their history as a protest. I get the wrath. I don't get the action. I have 15 years of history on reddit. Half of my life. It's a journal, a testament to my growth as a person. I've said brilliant things, I've said heinous ones. I see some…

There is a huge relief in being able to let go of everything on social media accounts. Starting fresh, deleting (at the time) my 11 year old reddit acc felt great. It was stupid of me to stick to old comments on various subreddits. Did the same to twitter recently and my online habits have felt better than ever since ditching those two sites.

Re: Power Delete Suite for Reddit

#13

Post by droffel »

afavour wrote: post #4

Call me cynical but I’m surprised how widespread the opinion is that Reddit is on a death spiral. It might end up being another Digg but I can’t help but feel like this is going to be a blip and that Reddit will by and large continue just fine. If anything I think this is the moment that Reddit finally separates from the “geeky” crowd that originally birthed it (I remember the days when Reddit was the nerdier alterna…

To put it in terms HN might understand:

For moderators, the switch from being able to use third party clients to being forced to use the official reddit client would be like a programmer being told their favorite IDE/text editor can no longer be used for code, and you'll have to get used to notepad or something.

Existing code? Fine! No problems, you can run it like normal. Writing new code? I'm not so sure you will have nearly as many developers willing to work in that ecosystem. Third party applications are part of the core moderation loop of pretty much every subreddit that operates at scale, and depriving those moderators of the tools they use will be to the detriment of the quality of the site.

People saying this won't change much probably haven't tried to moderate at scale using only first party tools. It sucks.

Re: Power Delete Suite for Reddit

#14

Post by omoikane »

afavour wrote: post #4

Call me cynical but I’m surprised how widespread the opinion is that Reddit is on a death spiral. It might end up being another Digg but I can’t help but feel like this is going to be a blip and that Reddit will by and large continue just fine. If anything I think this is the moment that Reddit finally separates from the “geeky” crowd that originally birthed it (I remember the days when Reddit was the nerdier alterna…

Perhaps people who mostly browse small subreddits through the default client are spared from the current drama. The front page of reddit feels very different from the rest of reddit.

I suspect those small subreddits will continue for a while.

Re: Power Delete Suite for Reddit

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Post by throwaway202351 »

Remmy wrote: post #11
deanCommie wrote: post #5

I guess this is on the frontpage because some people, in reaction to Reddit monetizing their content and ruining their experience, would prefer to burn it all down and delete all their history as a protest. I get the wrath. I don't get the action. I have 15 years of history on reddit. Half of my life. It's a journal, a testament to my growth as a person. I've said brilliant things, I've said heinous ones. I see some…

Considering that as of 50 minutes ago, the only way to read comments is on their new interface, i'd be slightly worried about your content.

source? old.reddit still works for me

edit: but yes, if gp has 15 years of his life documented on there, and he wants to keep it, I'd suggest making an offsite backup asap.

Re: Power Delete Suite for Reddit

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Post by waboremo »

deanCommie wrote: post #5

I guess this is on the frontpage because some people, in reaction to Reddit monetizing their content and ruining their experience, would prefer to burn it all down and delete all their history as a protest. I get the wrath. I don't get the action. I have 15 years of history on reddit. Half of my life. It's a journal, a testament to my growth as a person. I've said brilliant things, I've said heinous ones. I see some…

It's ok to delete your content, it's your content. If you cared, you would have archived it. Same with others who might care about that content. Archiving it can mean using systems like IPFS to keep it alive as long as someone wants it. It's not some grand erasure of history, you are just throwing away old CVS receipts, err in this case Reddit receipts. It's also ok to keep those receipts if you want, filling up a cabinet in the closet maybe to look back at the time you bought a toothbrush I suppose.

Deleting accounts and histories offers a major benefit for people, which is that if they are somewhat addicted it's easier to stay away from when you no longer have an old account to feel connected to that encourages you to keep returning. This is likely the primary reason for most people, and not that they particularly care about content written.

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