Lemmy.ml removed the ability to create communities to (I believe) encourage using other instances. You can create a community on other instances still - like lemmy.world, for example.
The longer I stayed on Lemmy.world, the more I realized how counter-productive everyone migrating to the biggest, most popular instance was. They should be actively encouraging new users in the Fediverse to explore
I actually made a new account today on .ca for that reason. I have had a .world account for two months now but they’re having some growing pains so I figured I’d do my (tiny) part to help distribute the server loads a little better.
I’ve been floating between .ca, shitjustworks, dbzer0 and kbin for the last few months before I settled on .ml. I like being given the choice of what content I want to see, on the platform that I like most
The Reddit community is a confusing one. deleted posts, a red hammer down the community is gone. I've deleted a couple of accounts. It's really a community that takes time to run...
I think it’s Nate Bargatzki who talked about how he bought a refrigerator and then Amazon kept recommending refrigerators to him. He said “I already solved that problem, Amazon. Remember? You were there”.
Interesting thing is they could do this smartly. You buy a refrigerator, and Amazon could keep track of average replacement age of that product, then about the time it’s due to be replaced, start sending you ads for another. That is when they would be useful.
Instead we get ads for the thing we just bought and I don’t understand why this practice continues. It can’t actually result in higher profits…right?
Has anyone else had trouble with Google search on Firefox for Android recently? It freezes after it provides results so I can’t click links. Weirdly, I don’t have this issue with Chrome, Edge, or Samsung Internet.
Find some old threads that you commented on years ago; chances are that a good portion of them are still there. Your reddit history doesn’t show everything, and AFAIK there are no tools available that can effectively eliminate every single post you’ve ever made, unless of course you simply didn’t make many comments and posts to begin with.
Nope. Reddit orphans posts and comments from accounts. I don’t know the hows or whys.
Last week I stumbled on a 15 year account who tried to do a full wipe before abandoning reddit. Their last and only comment in their profile is their farewell message. Except when you Google search their username it shows their content is still there. Just not associated to their profile page anymore.
Request a GDPR export and you will get your entire comment history. There are tools that can read that history and delete all the comments. I did encounter errors deleting a small number of comments which may have been due to the subs being privated. I deleted the problem ones from the json and the rest got deleted. I manually checked a sample of the 12 years of comments to confirm the accessible ones were being deleted.
Delete your account, look again in 3 months to see if account is gone.
If not request deletion via email amd if not followed by a satisfactory action, file a gdpr complaint. That will fuck them over a bit.
The search volume and ads do not justify the help for the greater good IMO.
It fucks Reddit more over to use an adblocker and DDOS their servers to reduce the traffic.
Or that they just can’t solve a problem. I’m all for fucking over reddit, but individual users get hit way harder than reddit when you delete posts containing technical info.
I have already seen bots that are moving complete reddit subs to their respective communities. It’s really annoying, because there’s no actual engagement whatsoever
It’s a compromise; the discussions aren’t lost, Reddit doesn’t get to have the data anymore, but like you said, there’s no engagement. The engagement needs to occur over here with new topics, possibly linking back to the copied old ones.
And Lemmy will probably not have the answer they’re looking for. As someone who has seen the answer to my problems most likely be in deleted comments before, fucking don’t. It doesn’t make anyone more likely to look at Lemmy, it just makes their lives harder in an already unbearably stressful world.
If you want to purge your memes and witty comments, go for it. Just leave the valuable technical information FOR THE LOVE OF GOD.
But for individuals, it either does or it doesn’t. It doesn’t matter if someone in a few years happens to ask the same question and get an answer on Lemmy.
A huge number of people who read reddit posts aren’t actually reddit users. Reddit has become just as important a repository of internet knowledge as Stack Overflow or Wikipedia. If you’re having trouble with software or something technical, the information on Reddit is invaluable.
That information does not exist on Lemmy Lemmy as an alternative when it comes to that information that already exists in the world is not a viable alternative.
The best possible thing that people moving to Lemmy can do is leave their comment and post history up, but continue to provide good answers to questions here on Lemmy. Eventually the knowledge on Reddit will be here or outdated enough to fade into obscurity.
I tried a few times already searching for somewith with lemmy like
[technical issue] lemmy
or [technical issue] [instance]
Guess how many results came up from that…The SEO right now is shit for those instances and discoverability. Searching for reddit will currently will not even mention something to lemmy or similiar.
I agree, reddit gets most of their traffic from the engagement surrounding the latest shitposts and low-effort memes. (Or just genuine community content if you prefer)
Months old posts are hardly relevant to large scale user engagement and it’s unlikely that the one user trying to solve a problem by visiting a years old thread is going to have much of an impact.
If people are going to move away from the site in a healthy manner, they need to realise for themselves that it’s time to move on. Better to have a bunch of hopeful and curious people looking for new opportunities rather than bitter and resentful users which are going to vent their frustration elsewhere.
Yeah I was in the Home Assistant sub. The number of times I Googled something I was struggling with, only to find a Reddit thread with MY comment telling people how to solve the exact issue I’m struggling with lol, I’ll leave it up.
They won’t come here… They’ll go wherever they can to solve the problem, which won’t be here because Lemmy doesn’t really show up in search results yet
In my experience with google at least, you have to specifically add “lemmy” to get any results to show up (and a lot of them aren’t related to the search term, just general lemmy pages), which doesn’t solve the problem until enough people know to add it.
I’m all for lemmy overtaking reddit but let’s not waste people’s time by deleting useful information 🙃. Deleting comments with solutions to problems will just come off as obnoxious and make people want to avoid lemmy.
Same. I’m not gonna make the internet worse to use because I’ve now left the product. As a user, it’s frustrating when I need help with some niche issue and find the perfect result on google, only for it to be deleted or otherwise useless. Deleting such history isn’t gonna make people want to use Lemmy or the likes. Such historical information doesn’t and will not exist on Lemmy. Deleting it doesn’t push people to an alternative. It just means it’s gone.
I’m not gonna cut off the collective internet’s nose to spite Reddit’s face.
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