I didn't delete my account or any of my posts when I left Reddit. Felt too much like punishing Reddit users and searchers of random information and not enough like punishing Spez.

I dunno. Aside from "fuck Spez" (which, don't get me wrong, I can't say is entirely unappealing), what's the argument to be made for deleting your post history via something like PowerDeleteSuite rather than just leaving and never visiting Reddit again?

[–] balderdash9@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The argument I've heard is that reddit will be monetizing its user generated data by allowing AI programs to access it.

[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah, that seems a little compelling, except that they've demonstrated that they keep deleted post content. If they'd be sleazy enough to train AIs on our not-deleted content, they'd probably be sleazy enough to train AIs on our deleted posts as well.

[–] ekky43@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Partly to reduce Reddit's reputation as the place to find answers for obscure problems, and partly to encourage neutral users to search for alternatives.

I think that deleters will not make a mind breaking difference, but the idea is to remove and rebuild that information other places.

With that said, if any of you had posted some obscure but wildly useful information on Reddit, please consider making a post in the relevant Lemmy community (or stack overflow, or wherever) with the solution.

[–] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

It's not that important. People are putting far too much value into a forum account.

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I debated whether or not I should wipe my post/comment history, but ultimately I decided that I just didn't want reddit to have anything I created, no matter how worthless it is.