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The scorching of previous content I also found rather destructive... people were deleting 10 years worth of posts and content.
My personal approach has been that the history of the internet is fragile enough as it is. I've left reddit for good. I don't need to burn Reddit down in protest. I'm fine with it having a passive rather than active death
I understand this take. For me, though, I wasn't willing to let reddit to continue to make ad revenue from my posts/comments (e.g. from their turning up in google search results) or sell them for LLM-shenanigans (of course, my comments can be scraped off lemmy just the same, but at least a megacorp isn't claiming ownership over them).
I don't regret it at all, either. It feels rather refreshing to not have that trail floating around on the internet anymore (well, mostly. I'm sure I didn't catch everything.)
I definitely hear this, understand it, and respect it. I'm never going to confront someone asking them why they did that, or telling them they were wrong to do. But sometimes I see someone getting on someone's case about "why are you even here if you don't hate reddit and YouTube and twitter with all your heart" and it just bums me out