Some of Reddit’s most popular communities have posted open letters to the company with a series of requests regarding many key issues at the heart of the recent protests on the platform. They want a response by June 29th.

  • pandacoder@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Bad idea, this looks like Stockholm syndrome to me.

    Reddit has already shown they will screw everyone over, and no amount of blowback so far has gotten them to change course.

    Leave (and optionally try to give Reddit as much hell as possible on the way out). That’s the only answer now.

    I don’t think there is any redemption either, even if u/spez is removed. He’s not the first bad head of the company, if anything the company has never had any good heads.

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      1 year ago

      I made a script that changes all my old comments to gibberish, but I haven’t used it yet. I can’t decide if it’s a good idea or not. I’m not saying that my old comments are extremely useful, but I wouldn’t want to prevent people from reading or having context or any help I’ve given.

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        1 year ago

        If you want to do that you might try doing it very slowly as minor edits. Like swap, add, or delete a couple of words in several posts per hour, and just let the script run for long periods, gradually degrading the usability of your comments over time.

        I don’t know if that would trigger whatever process Reddit is using to restore comments when users delete them, but there’s got to be some detection algorithm they are using that could be avoided while also, eventually, nuking your content.

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        1 year ago

        They will simply roll your edits back.

        Dont give them the clicks

        Just move on

        Maybe delete your account

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          1 year ago

          All deleting your account does is remove your username from your comments while also removing your ability to delete or edit said comments. It makes more sense to keep it active so you have more control over your data.

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            1 year ago

            Yeah, reddit is restoring bulk edits made using the api but you can still go to your user profile, sort by top scoring comments, and manually change your top 10-20 comments

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            1 year ago

            And gives you a reason to stop visiting the site.

            The data stopped belonging to you as soon as you posted it*

            *unless you live somewhere GDPR applies or like california•*

            •and if reddit actually complies•