What a terrible take on this. Did Reddit make this post? This is essentially erasure of knowledge searchable by anyone. Does anyone looking for the answer also not deserve it any different?
If that user in the least somehow exported their comments so they are available somewhere else, fine. But thats quite unlikely.
Now if Reddit starts to restrict access to comments like Twitter/X did for their content, agreed, fuck 'em.
Thatâs not the point⊠it was eight there⊠right there, no need to dig deeper⊠and it wasnât like a 30GB bluray rip went missing, it was just a few lines of text, a few very valuable lines of text⊠but no, some people thought itâs more imoortant to protest than the freedom of information đ⊠info that they once shared BTW, no one forced them to do it, but no, some of the protesters thought it was a good idea yo delete all of the content and their accounts⊠please explain how this is a good idea.
I deleted 14 years of reddit comments and submissions. Years. Thatâs a huge investment of time and energy. When reddit made it crystal clear that they see users as a replaceable commodity that they can use and abuse with impunity many of us decided to call them on it. Note how I did not say âcall their bluffâ, neither they nor us were bluffing. Now because reddit made poor choices weâve got people such as yourself blaming us for not putting up with abuse from a narcissistic asshole named Steve Huffman. Well Iâm here to tell you that if you canât understand what happened or donât care then you can go to hell too. When I got that data I linked to set up I was going to come back and give you what youâre looking for but now you can have this instead: đ Do it your goddamn self.
Well hereâs the thing. Mr. Huffman, Reddit CEO, thinks that he and his board of executives owns the content in the screenshot and all other posts on Reddit. Heâs even gone out of his way to let it be known that this belongs to him, and itâs his to profit from any way he damn well pleases.
Why the hell should the guy who deleted his comment give away his hard earned knowledge to benefit Steve, who clearly has shown he thinks the rest of us are just ants in his anthill of capitalistic endeavors.
Dude you want the Reddit protests to work but also that they donât affect anyone? Thatâs literally the opposite of a protest. The important thing for a protest is to show how much someone depends on something to level the playing field for negotiations.
These are the exact things that make the protest effective. You admitted it yourself: because of this action, you had to find your information somewhere else. Isnât that the point of the protest? Driving people away from Reddit to show the admins how critical their userbase is to their success?
I mean I get why youâre mad, but if you are pissed at spez and where Reddit is heading too, this is the wrong thing to be mad about.
Rather be mad the Reddit holds such a monopoly on this kind of knowledge that you canât find it almost anywhere else.
Not affect anyone, it will affect search engines⊠but, not much nore than that.
And the protests proved inaffective, as I initially thought and said to many, just move, no need to protest, just leave for Lemmy and leave your accounts. That was all that was needed and no protest in the world is gonna beat reddit or the admins that will just overried your NSFW settings. Leaving the platform says way more than protesting this or that.
And no, if the point of the protest was to just delete all info from reddit, then I wouldâve never been behind that protest. The delete everything idea was promoted by some extreme protesters and unfortunatelly, some users went allong with that.
One of the points of the protest was to drive down engagement to the reddit website entirely. You searched for a problem, found that reddit no longer has the answers, and posted about your frustrations on lemmy, a direct competitor to reddit, driving up engagement on lemmy instead.
Iâm pretty sure the protest is working just as intended, even after it âendedâ.
Iâm really sorry about your problem though. I wish I had the expertise to help, but I donât.
I can imagine when society sees you as a problem rather than the situation youâre in, having a companion who loves you unconditionally becomes a lot more important.
I am a homeless advocate in San Diego. They do have some sweet dogs, but some are not at all sweet. Iâve been bitten by a couple of them while handing out water and snacks.
The real problem is that there is an entire subculture of breeders among the homeless that refuse to get their pets spayed or neutered. I will be the first to admit that no one that is homeless, that I have ever met, would ever think about their needs before their dogsâ needs, so those pets arenât living nearly as hard a life as their owners. That being said, we have too many dogs and cats in this country. I donât know what the solution is. Itâs inhumane to take their pets from them. Itâs also inhumane to allow them to breed their pets willy-nilly, causing even more stray and feral dogs.
Might do an IRL sexual partner who enjoys foreplay a favour though. I dont know that reprogramming our brains to only react to hardcore scenes is doing ourselves a favour either.
Iâm firmly convinced that itâs bad for us. As is watching a dozen vids in one session and switching back and forth between them. Itâs possibly the most mentally damaging way of doing the whole thing. Itâs like TikTok. Imagine doing that with movies.
ahhh hello, friend I havenât seen in a while, let us talk for about an hour about life while totally impeding our progress in our current work because our discussion is a lot more important and engaging than whatever work we were supposed to be doing.
moments like these is why I sometimes I wish I could shut someoneâs mouth immediately.
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