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This sums up much of Reddit now
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Can't blame people for deleting their reddit comments to prevent them from scraping it all and profiting from it.
To me, it's about making reddit less usable and valuable to users, so they seek answers outside of reddit.
I can, this is cutting off your nose to spite your face. "I'd rather help nobody than help the public and parasites equally" is a very toxic mindset.
This is the internet, there are other noses. Why would you want to help a parasite when you could push the public toward a non-parasitic nose?
There aren't other noses for most things though, unfortunately. The narrow-interest forum of the late 90s is mostly extinct. Virtually all discussion boards condensed into reddit or Discord, and only one of those is actually searchable.
I don't want to help the parasite, but an alternative has to exist before you can push the public toward it. Burning everything down and telling everyone to build their own houses doesn't actually help anything.
This is a bit like the chicken and the egg though. "You have to keep your content on reddit because there's no strong alternative" just ensures there will never be an alternative. If you really want an alternative you can't keep supporting the beast.
It still has to be done in the right order. A smaller scale version has been ongoing for a few years with gaming wikis: fandom . com used to be the place to collect and find any information you wanted about a game, having supplanted GameFAQs old-school style (and actually acquiring it while it fell apart for other reasons, it's a whole thing). But fandom has been aggressively enshittifying in a lot of ways so many communities abandoned it, either to discord (boo) or wiki.gg (yay). And in their wake, lots of the fandom sites have been intentionally sabotaged to drive engagement to better places.
But! The alternatives were established first because driving people away when there's no second option makes them do something else entirely and they aren't going to come knocking when you're finally ready for guests.
Can't make me put em back.
Nah.