I think the most insulting thing is that reddit wants to monetize off of things like YOUR efforts and YOUR content. Stuck it to em' and made us proud! Nice work! Hope your new community does well.
this post was submitted on 06 Jul 2023
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And still not being profitable lmao
Mind boggling how many people can work for you for free and you still can't make money
They're making money. Not turning a business profit and not making money are two very different things. You can become a billionaire with a business that never turns a profit in the accounting books.
Profiting from the work others in true capitalist fashion.
I mean, isn’t that what YouTube, Instagram and TikTok do?
At least you get some of the profits on the platforms. On Reddit you just get karma.
Again, the easy way to ruin them would be to sneak a couple of "as an AI language models" into threads, preferably pre-2022, with a large number of posts to poison the data and render the entire thread unusable.
Not to be that guy but admins can absolutely revert even your manual deletion.
Re-upload with pics of a vehicle instead?
Re-upload with pics of large dicks.
That assumes reddit doesn't version their data, which they probably do. In that case they could revert that too without even having to go through the trouble of restoring the data from backup, which they probably keep as well.
TL;DR you're not gonna manage to make reddit lose your data. They can get it back if they care enough and if it's hosted within their domain.
I mostly posted thru imgur albums automatically generated thru my 3rd party app, rather than reddit hosted images.
You could go to Imgur and delete your albums (or make them private or something, I don't know how Imgur works).
I read on here recently that imgur deleted standalone posts not attached to users, which I believe would include the links generated by my 3rd party client. They were not attached to my imgur account. I think imgur's self-destruction took care of it for me.
It's fascinating how all these websites have decided to kill themselves all at the same time.
That's why I didn't delete my account yet, I want to be able to edit my comments when they revert them. I'm just going keep editing and editing, who knows what scripts I'll run this week?
So get this, I've been slowly injecting random characters into my posts. Just every day that I think about it I go through my history and ctrl+shift+9 to get a random string from Bitwarden and plug it in for a page of posts. I figured it might not look like a mass delete/replace as much as a scripted one is, and doesn't take me much time.
However, I just noticed today that I can now only view 6 years of my old post history, while I've been posting for 12 years. this wasn't like this earlier this week. I can even find 11 year old posts if I know what specifically to look for. I've even tried with the newer web interface and my history cuts off at 6 years.
They're definitely onto us, even people doing it slowly.
Watch out, you might run into api cost issues with these scripts :)
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Depends your location, IIRC Europeans can request permanent deletion of their content and they are required by law to comply.
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I had no idea that there was a sub for vans the entire 10 years I was on Reddit. Anyways, I'm now subscribed here!
Good Job!
Keep an eye for old posts you have deleted being restored.
Yeah if you had a highly upvoted answer to a question and want to inflict maximum damage, just ask chatGPT to generate a couple paragraphs of SEO terms for the question, replace your answer with that.
just ask chatGPT to generate a couple paragraphs of SEO terms for the question, replace your answer with that.
Chaotic neutral boss energy.
I hope to see more and more people doing this
Doing the lords work
i never heard of vans before. Nonetheless, it's good seeing such a niche community on lemmy. Maybe create a post on reddit to ask users to join your community as It's hard for it to be randomly discovered by users as of now.
I tried and was downvoted even when I made an actual contributing post, and limited it to mentioning the lemmy community only in the comments.
The core r/vans community and SamTheKing25 (top mod) is awesome and supported the blackout when voted on. But the overall reddit community has grown so toxic.. And while r/vans may be niche, it is in the top 5% largest subreddits.
So while the most active posters/supportive community members may remain, they are outnumbered by a very toxic mass, many of whom mostly just vote and sometimes comment. And they are solely the community members responsible for the rare hateful comments in r/vans. Sadly I think the user-base of reddit as a whole will only grow more toxic.
Edit: Want to clarify that I made a reddit post that was well received before the blackout happened, in which I did link c/vans. But I made another post sharing a new pair the other day, and was downvoted for mentioning lemmy in the comments.
I wouldn't be surprised if the Reddit admins have it set up to automatically downvote anyone mentioning one of the alternatives. It makes me wonder how often they were messing with the apparent popularity of many posts and comments. Like somethings that were downvoted were just baffling as to why anyone would have a problem with that specific thing being said.
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Yeah - I honestly believe the 3PA users were top community contributors and more likely to leave.
I have no hard data to back it up, but it sure seems like the overall quality of content on Reddit has bombed.
Personally I’m no power user or anything but I did have 6 figure comment and post karma. I even gave myself permission to use old.reddit.com after the API change and I’ve just had no urge to contribute. I’ve started to post a couple times and decided it’s just not worth the effort anymore.
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Happy to have you! Thank you for your hard work!
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