How it going here? I'm looking forward to helping fuck up Reddit's IPO.

DrTautology@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world – 675 points –

Done with Reddit's bullshit, and happy to check this out as it seems to be popular. Any apps that people would recommend for this platform?

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It's going fine. There's enough content to keep me entertained and not rely on Reddit at all.

How to help fuck up Reddit's IPO:

  • Using Lemmy itself is already a way to do so. Post, comment, vote, mod, this kind of stuff. In special, create and/or nurture communities about things that you care about, sometimes a post goes a long way.
  • If you got the money, time, and technical expertise to do so, consider building your own instance. Specially if you want to focus on a niche subject.
  • If you still have your Reddit account, and if Power Delete Suite still works, consider replacing your content there with literal gibberish ("4593fnjkfgehjkre" style). Reddit is trying to profit from corps training bots, and gibberish makes it less valuable.
  • If some content creator mentions resources in Reddit, make sure to mention available sources for the same resources elsewhere, or ask for them.
  • Teach people how to google stuff. Seriously. ~50% of the Reddit traffic is due to people using "site:reddit.com" in Google to make the results less crappy, but you can get similar results with negative query searches, exact terms, and stuff like this.

teach people to google stuff

Man, the reason we searched for xyz reddit, instead of xyz, is because Google is junk now.

Honestly I Google very infrequently with chatgpt available now. Even then I always use duck duck go over Google.

Yes but it's possible to work around that "junkness" without Reddit. At least partially. (I know from blacklisting Reddit from Google results for years.)

These are awesome suggestions. I have a 9 year old Reddit account and I'd love to nuke all the content I've ever contributed. Unfortunately without push shift I don't think it's even possible to get at anything more than a couple years back, but I research that tool.

If you happen to still have a Reddit account, could you check if the tool that I've linked still works, after the API closed? You don't need to trash all the content to test this, just post something to profile and then remove specifically that post.

Sorry for asking this, but I'm wondering if I should still suggest the tool, and I can't test this out because I don't have a Reddit acc any more.

Unfortunately without push shift I don’t think it’s even possible to get at anything more than a couple years back

It is - up to March/2023.

I'll try to put in some time to test this soon. I really want my account completely wiped out. I did a California data request through the official reddit channels, but they only gave me my data back to 2021. Ideally I'd like to archive all my comments, and then wipe everything, but I'll settle for whatever I can get at this point.