Users removing their entire Reddit history might block people from reaching useful info that was in that history. Think of people, who may not be Redditors themselves, searching in the future via google, or whatever, for some useful info that was in your deleted history, just because you wanted to feel good about yourself sticking it to spez, or just because you blindly followed the manic sheeple who advised you to do so.

Deleting your entire Reddit history does not help the cause, not proactively anyway.

What would help the cause is people knowing that a very useful/knowledgeable/interesting user, as evidenced by their Reddit history, has abandoned their platform. Even better, if people knew that the useful/knowledgeable/interesting user has moved to a new platform called Lemmy.

Whether you are planning to leave Reddit completely, or you are splitting your time between here and there, leaving a message like the one below at the end of comments, and/or in its own stickied post in your profile, would be much more helpful than trying to erase your Reddit history:

𝗡𝗌𝘁𝗲: 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗌𝘄𝗻𝗲𝗿 𝗌𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗌𝘂𝗻𝘁 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗹𝗲𝗳𝘁 𝗥𝗲𝗱𝗱𝗶𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗷𝗌𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗟𝗲𝗺𝗺𝘆 𝘄𝗌𝗿𝗹𝗱.

𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗺𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗮𝗎𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝘄𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗻 𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗎 𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗚𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗌𝗱𝗲 𝘀𝘆𝗺𝗯𝗌𝗹𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝗱𝗱𝗶𝘁 𝗮𝗜𝗜𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗹𝘆 𝗱𝗌𝗲𝘀 𝗻𝗌𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘆𝗌𝘂 𝘁𝗌 𝗞𝗻𝗌𝘄 𝗮𝗯𝗌𝘂𝘁 𝗟𝗲𝗺𝗺𝘆.

𝗊𝗌, 𝗜𝗳 𝘆𝗌𝘂 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗱, 𝘄𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗞 𝗯𝗲𝗹𝗌𝘄 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝘆𝗌𝘂𝗿 𝗯𝗿𝗌𝘄𝘀𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗱𝗱𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗯𝗮𝗿 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗌𝗳 𝗰𝗌𝗜𝘆-𝗜𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗎 𝗶𝘁:

𝗵𝘁𝘁𝗜𝘀://𝗷𝗌𝗶𝗻-𝗹𝗲𝗺𝗺𝘆.𝗌𝗿𝗎/𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀

If it’s possible to do this to old messages in batch, that would be great, as long as it can be done without triggering automatic Reddit admin alarms.

Getting a copy of your Reddit history via a GDPR request is something you definitely should do.

Saving a lot more of old.reddit in the Internet Archive would also be helpful and great.

But as things stand, do not erase your Reddit history!

  • doleo@lemmy.one
    14·
    1 year ago

    Thanks for your input, but I don’t appreciate your condescension, and presuming my motives for deleting my data.

    I can see where you’re coming from, but I have no intention of raising awareness, or converting people into Lemmings. I deleted my data from reddit because the API issue represented the final straw, their actions and behaviour being totally misaligned with a company that I’m comfortable providing value to. And my posts, at least to some extent, were providing value to their business.

    So I didn’t like the >just because you wanted to feel good about yourself sticking it to spez, or just because you blindly followed the manic sheeple who advised you to do so>, it feels like an unnecessary barb. But good luck with your efforts.

    • badmin@lemm.eeOP
      33·
      1 year ago

      Thanking for taking the time to read the post and engaging meaningfully.

      The perceived condescension was a deliberate addition by my humble self to make sure this post will be suitable for this community, which may not have been necessary after all.

      I managed to post something actually unpopular here, and for that at least, I’m glad.