• dust_accelerator@lemmy.world
    7·
    1 year ago

    I might be a spiteful fucker, but I am going to wait for the API changes. Then use a VM based AutoGUI bot to randomly scramble stuff up, putting nice load on the site, all the while acting like a “real” person. Good luck restoring/countering that bitchboy spez!

    Mwahahaha

    • 🇦🇺Baku
      1·
      1 year ago

      I’ve actually been thinking that perhaps the best form of protest would be if everyone affected by the changes all lost their fucking shit. Given that this decision was all about money in the first place, anything that will really make them lose money (like making it such a toxic place that advertiisers genuinely do not want to be within 6 feets of it) would 100% force their hand

      Beat case they double down and TPAs get to stay, worst case the entire site gets shut down

  • inverimus@lemmy.world
    7·
    1 year ago

    Reddit has backups, so for AI training purposes I’m sure they can restore all the posts of everyone mass editing/deleting this month.

    • Kill_joy@kbin.socialOP
      9·
      1 year ago

      Yeah it’s like driving by a house and sticking my middle finger out the car window at them and then never coming back.

      It was only a moment, it will never be seen by anyone it was intended for, but it felt good for me.

    • Zaneak@kbin.social
      2·
      1 year ago

      Its people not used to thinking about backups on databases etc or that they can’t be used. They can probably stand up a database instance preannoncement with an api infront of it for ai training. Hell probably even offer it as extra monetary option. We will sell you what preannouncement looks like, then you can use the access you pay us for currently to compare how people react against a negative action by a company.

      *edit - it does impact people that would use like web scrapers vs api and also possibly google search results, so it probably does do something, just not necessarily the impact everyone might have when doing the mass deletes.

  • minnieo@kbin.social
    3·
    1 year ago

    did mine too. i took this text from someone else’s edited comment cause i liked it so much, added a line or two

  • Jernej Simončič �@infosec.exchange
    2·
    1 year ago

    @Kill_joy I’m just waiting for my data export to come through (it’s been over a week since I requested it), then I’ll submit a GDPR deletion request – any other way of deleting only hides the data from the web, but it remains in their databases.

  • Bluefold@lemmy.world
    2·
    1 year ago

    I went with explicitly mentioning my right to erasure under GDPR and how you can absolutely identify me via my account. Really interested if they undelete as I’ll be complaining to the ICO.

  • Nora
    1·
    1 year ago

    You’re just giving them more data when you interact with them. Those comments are probably still there. All you did was give them data that you are the type of person to change your comments.

  • aaronbieber@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    This isn’t likely to stop Reddit themselves from monetizing the data for AI training purposes. Deletion is typically “logical” in these types of systems, meaning that it’s “marked as deleted” but not actually deleted.

    What it does affect is the ability for others to see the posts, which might be companies accessing the API for AI training purposes. At this point, we don’t know whether this is a meaningful path that Reddit wants to go down. If it is, they could allow the API to return deleted posts and comments (theoretically).