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What a terrible take on this. Did Reddit make this post? This is essentially erasure of knowledge searchable by anyone. Does anyone looking for the answer also not deserve it any different?
If that user in the least somehow exported their comments so they are available somewhere else, fine. But thats quite unlikely.
Now if Reddit starts to restrict access to comments like Twitter/X did for their content, agreed, fuck 'em.
Dude you want the Reddit protests to work but also that they don't affect anyone? That's literally the opposite of a protest. The important thing for a protest is to show how much someone depends on something to level the playing field for negotiations.
These are the exact things that make the protest effective. You admitted it yourself: because of this action, you had to find your information somewhere else. Isn't that the point of the protest? Driving people away from Reddit to show the admins how critical their userbase is to their success?
I mean I get why you're mad, but if you are pissed at spez and where Reddit is heading too, this is the wrong thing to be mad about.
Rather be mad the Reddit holds such a monopoly on this kind of knowledge that you can't find it almost anywhere else.
Not affect anyone, it will affect search engines... but, not much nore than that.
And the protests proved inaffective, as I initially thought and said to many, just move, no need to protest, just leave for Lemmy and leave your accounts. That was all that was needed and no protest in the world is gonna beat reddit or the admins that will just overried your NSFW settings. Leaving the platform says way more than protesting this or that.
And no, if the point of the protest was to just delete all info from reddit, then I would've never been behind that protest. The delete everything idea was promoted by some extreme protesters and unfortunatelly, some users went allong with that.
One of the points of the protest was to drive down engagement to the reddit website entirely. You searched for a problem, found that reddit no longer has the answers, and posted about your frustrations on lemmy, a direct competitor to reddit, driving up engagement on lemmy instead.
I'm pretty sure the protest is working just as intended, even after it "ended".
I'm really sorry about your problem though. I wish I had the expertise to help, but I don't.
Well hereβs the thing. Mr. Huffman, Reddit CEO, thinks that he and his board of executives owns the content in the screenshot and all other posts on Reddit. Heβs even gone out of his way to let it be known that this belongs to him, and itβs his to profit from any way he damn well pleases.
Why the hell should the guy who deleted his comment give away his hard earned knowledge to benefit Steve, who clearly has shown he thinks the rest of us are just ants in his anthill of capitalistic endeavors.
https://archive.org/details/pushshift-reddit-2023-03
If op wanted the information it can likely still be found.
That's not the point... it was eight there... right there, no need to dig deeper... and it wasn't like a 30GB bluray rip went missing, it was just a few lines of text, a few very valuable lines of text... but no, some people thought it's more imoortant to protest than the freedom of information π... info that they once shared BTW, no one forced them to do it, but no, some of the protesters thought it was a good idea yo delete all of the content and their accounts... please explain how this is a good idea.
I deleted 14 years of reddit comments and submissions. Years. That's a huge investment of time and energy. When reddit made it crystal clear that they see users as a replaceable commodity that they can use and abuse with impunity many of us decided to call them on it. Note how I did not say "call their bluff", neither they nor us were bluffing. Now because reddit made poor choices we've got people such as yourself blaming us for not putting up with abuse from a narcissistic asshole named Steve Huffman. Well I'm here to tell you that if you can't understand what happened or don't care then you can go to hell too. When I got that data I linked to set up I was going to come back and give you what you're looking for but now you can have this instead: π Do it your goddamn self.