I feel bad about all the people deleting their Reddit accounts because there’s probably so many helpful comments and posts on subreddits people look to for help and info that are just gone now
It would just be better if they transitioned over to another site in protest, but preserved helpful posts and comments
We really need a better way to long-term archive stuff like that such that no one person can delete it—some sort of distributed archival system similar to BitTorrent’s distributed content downloading but built to be easily searchable by the wider web.
I see where you are coming from, but it’s really the only way to protest at the individual level. Reddit’s value is the users and mods and the content we create.
I look at this as a lesson for the wider Internet culture. We spent the last decade forgetting that it’s about decentralizing and niche communities, not walled gardens controlled by single individuals or companies. That let to some great things, perhaps, but it also means the system was less resilient to change.
I’m hoping that in a few years we will look back and realize that the Fediverse, in all of its many forms and motivations, helped restore a bit of what the original promise of the Internet and the web had. At the very least, I hope to one day see the 2015-2023 era as a low point.
I feel bad about all the people deleting their Reddit accounts because there’s probably so many helpful comments and posts on subreddits people look to for help and info that are just gone now
It would just be better if they transitioned over to another site in protest, but preserved helpful posts and comments
We really need a better way to long-term archive stuff like that such that no one person can delete it—some sort of distributed archival system similar to BitTorrent’s distributed content downloading but built to be easily searchable by the wider web.
I see where you are coming from, but it’s really the only way to protest at the individual level. Reddit’s value is the users and mods and the content we create.
I look at this as a lesson for the wider Internet culture. We spent the last decade forgetting that it’s about decentralizing and niche communities, not walled gardens controlled by single individuals or companies. That let to some great things, perhaps, but it also means the system was less resilient to change.
I’m hoping that in a few years we will look back and realize that the Fediverse, in all of its many forms and motivations, helped restore a bit of what the original promise of the Internet and the web had. At the very least, I hope to one day see the 2015-2023 era as a low point.
I deleted my comment because I don’t want to drive clicks there.
It’s sad, but this is entirely on spez.
Just deleting the account keeps the comments there, though.
You gotta use one of those wipers to fully nuke your tracks. Otherwise you show as [Deleted] and the posts remain.