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[–] 139 points 3 months ago (13 children)

Lots of people removed their reddit comments when reddit sold its content to llm-learning, im addition to the drama around ipo and third party token charges.

Its sad but I can understand people being upset about their expertise they gave freely being monetised without their consent

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  • [–] 78 points 3 months ago (5 children)
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    There used to be tools to see removed comments before API policy changes. Do we really think Reddit doesn't have this built in their database?

    I am heavily speculating here of course. But I really think that Reddit has this figured out before exodus occurred and the damage community thought it had done is in vain.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago

    Not necessarily. The value of Reddit comes from it's massive amount of content. A lot of the traffic is just people searching stuff and Reddit coming up first. By deleting your comments and posts, Reddit becomes less valuable even if they still have that content on their end.

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  • [–] 31 points 3 months ago (4 children)
  • [–] 31 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Worse are those comments that have an edit saying: "Never mind, I figured it out."

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  • [–] 20 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    I had a stupid technical issue back in the day so I made a post on reddit in hopes that someone figures it out. No solution was found though the comments but I did found out how to fix it and posted an extensive edit and a comment for people to find when searching the same issue.

    It has been 5 years since and I still sometimes get comments on that post thanking me for the solution.

    Can't imagine people just saying "I figured it out, thanks!" and never posting their solution...

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  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I had a really frustrating issue getting some controller code for arduino to work and finally did a search on Reddit. Sure enough the top hit was someone who had exactly the same problem as I did, but was kind enough to put the entire solution in the comments.

    And it turns out that Redditor was me. I had the same ****** problem 5 years prior and didn't remember. I can't tell if that makes me smart or stupid.

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  • [–] 25 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    We have the same problem here, if not worse, with deleted posts. Entire threads gone by 1 person.

    Wish it just clear the name from public view and move on (mods would need to be able to see it for mod purposes. Maybe after a month you can make it so only admins can see it.)

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  • [–] 18 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    You know if lemmy tries really hard one day it could be that deleted post 😃

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  • [–] 17 points 3 months ago

    Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.

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  • [–] 15 points 3 months ago

    Just use chatgpt.

    "Ah yes! I see your issue and although rare, you just need to deleted by user to resolve your problem. ""

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago*

    Good.

    It annoys me when I encounter it, too, but Reddit shouldn’t have a right to enthusiasts’ accumulated knowledge, if they want it gone.

    They’re not even an “lesser evil” anymore. Reddit can burn, though I acknowledge that will probably never happen.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago

    For anyone who is interested, this is my Holy Grail forum thread:

    Link to Artix about OpenRC and DisplayLink

    I was struggling to get OpenRC to work with this damnable DisplayLink port. If anyone else is looking to adequately use a triple monitor set up with OpenRC, hope this helps a smidgen!

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago

    It was probably the formula for antigravity.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    I also deleted all my content off reddit during the exodus

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    I hate that comments of deleted accounts get erased on reddit.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

    The comments stay, a lot of users run scripts that overwrite all their comments eith gibberish before deleting them thought.

    Before deleting their account.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago

    The random word generators was specifically to get around Reddit restoring deleted comments by users. I suppose what we really needed was an AI generator which reversed and re-wrote the response to be completely wrong in order to poison the LLM well. (as if relying on the average redditor for many types of solutions isn't poisoning it enough already)

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