Today, not in a moment of necessity, but a moment of protest, I logged in to Reddit because I found tons of comments and posts listed on old Reddit when you sort by top or controversial.
I logged in to Reddit to destroy even more of my comments that were missed by Power Delete Suite.
It seems a lot of people are doing this. I’ve seen some interesting stuff here and Reddit with screenshots of deleted comments with “this solved my problem” below the deletion.
The way I look at it, ALL of my content was posted via Apollo, just like all of my comments and posts are through WefWef here. If Reddit admins felt the API shouldn’t be free, then my submissions are also not free for them to monetize and get traffic from.
I know for a fact I’ve had 100+ #1 ranked longtail SEO posts in Reddit before I deleted everything. Many of them were getting tons of traffic based on the amount of follow-up private messages received years later.
I do expect Reddit’s traffic to go down as a whole because of everyone leaving but also because of how many removed their content.
That IPO of theirs is going so well.
It hurts my soul knowing all of this useful content was removed from reddit.
I’ve moved on to Lemmy, but I’m having a hard time removing everything from reddit. I know with so many people removing their old posts/replies that it will definitely hurt reddit, so many googled content won’t be there.
It would be cool if we could transfer our old posts here in some sort of meaningful way, but I don’t see how that could happen in a way that makes sense.
Libreddit.hu has been super helpful. No user log in; can subscribe to subreddits via cookies and it doesn’t give Reddit any traffic. I use it to browse some subs like Credibledefense
I think for now, you can export your content. Perhaps in the future someone will create a tool to reimport those on lemmy.