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Thank you for not deleting your old posts! I’ve seen too many people saying they have used tools to delete all their old Reddit posts.
Information lost is information lost, it doesn’t matter if you like the platform or not.
It does matter. They’re not going to profit off my submissions by injecting ads when someone searches for a solution. I’m not going to contribute to their financial gain.
It’s not lost data if it’s documented elsewhere. Download your data and delete everything.
well, it's kinda lost for humanity if it only gathers dust on your harddisk and isn't accessible for anyone...
Hence “hosted elsewhere”. Download and decentralize.
I should have specified delete everything from Reddit. Don’t let them profit off your posts. Do share your knowledge.
Then encourage people repost it somewhere else. And Facebook also started out as only a social media company but now is integrated into so many aspects of our lives and in some countries the default messaging service.
So depending on the view deleting content is also for humanity to try and avoid the emergence of another data mining mega corp.
That information is what leads back to reddit and creates new users. And the more obscure the info the higher reddit results will pop up in searches. Search results even put less priority on even forums that contain information in favor of years old reddit results being promoted to the top.
If the goal is to cut off reddit and decrease its influence then deleting is the way forward. It is the one singular act that actually has an impact.
I was close to deleting it. I'm also subbed to data hording and this is the opposite of what we do there. If someone is searching for something obscure as 3D printing issue on an Artillery 1, I rather it show up on lemmy, not reddit.