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.

  • useful_idiotA
    101·
    1 year ago

    Thanks for the heads up, this is like the 10th time ive had to run power delete.

    • PagingDoctorLove@lemmy.world
      3·
      1 year ago

      I’m still waiting for them to send me my data before I erase. There’s just no way I can manually go through 10+ years to see if there’s any info I want to keep copies of. But now I’m wondering what happens if they never respond to my data request. Before rif went dark I saw a lot of others saying they never got a response.

      • DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world
        5·
        1 year ago

        I did not get a response yet. They still have 3 weeks before it is a GDPR breach. I am on a vacation but when I get home, I will resend my requests via email to have proof and forward to EU regulators if they miss the deadline.

    • megane-kun@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I don’t know if it’s still possible to do now that Steve Huffingman has shat on its API, but I’ve got an automated process (via Shreddit).

      I actually intended stop it at July 1. I never did. I’m now looking forward to the day Reddit sends me a love letter forcing me to stop, or else, send assassins my way (or sue me, whatever).