I wonder how long Reddit will survive with reposts
this post was submitted on 29 Jun 2023
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I’d dare say that reddit cannot survive without its content!
https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite works great for backing up, then editing, then deleting your content from reddit.
I’ve used it on a few of my accounts and I’ve noticed the following:
- You have to baby sit it as occasionally it’ll display an error box you have to click on.
- You definitely have to run it a few times, across a few days, to catch everything.
It seems that (at least for my accounts, keep in mind) you have to edit the comment, then delete it. That way spez’ world of woe backs up the edit, not the comment.
EDIT: Oh! It’s a javascript that runs from the old site so it can be a bit funky at times. With macOS and Safari I’ve (as instructed) added the link to my bookmarks and sometimes I need to click it a couple of times before the UI comes up.
I'd been using RES to overwrite, then delete all my posts and comments every few weeks for the last years. If Reddit tried to restore any of my stuff, even if they went past the overwrite nonsense strings, they most likely only caught a fraction of it.
Reddit is too big to fail, they have achieved critical mass. Keep in mind facebook is still around despite being a reviled company, and instagram certainly hasn't had a mass migration off of the platform either.
At the end of the day Lemmy isn't a replacement to reddit yet. It depends entirely upon it getting traction which thus far still hasn't occurred - we are not at critical mass yet. I hope it happens but there are many reasons why this site could fail even after reddit's admin blunders. Too many people are apathetic to the changes and not all of them are lurkers who do not post or comment.
Today you can't just stop using reddit either, especially for google searches. Too much content is ONLY on reddit. It's a huge problem. We really need a wikipedia style reddit where it's not for profit and still moderated for content.
lol nah Reddit can fail. Just like Tumblr, and Digg, and MySpace, and LiveJournal, and GeoCities, and the list goes on. Reddit relies on volunteer work to provide its content, and just like when Digg tried to do almost the same thing, the community will move on. It always does. It has since the 80s and will until the extinction of humanity or the collapse of civilization.
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Who is investing in Reddit at this point? I guess they can just dump their shares against etf buying.
Reddit is not public, so it’s just private investors at this point that funded series tranches. They, of course, are pushing to have Reddit get profitable and then IPO.
I guess we will see what happens, but Spez may have totally messed-up their plans with the inept API pricing and the response to the concerns about it.
It could have been totally averted if they just introduced a reasonable user fee and license that could be used in any third party app.
Spez could have even required 3pas to carry Reddit ads - a lot of us would have grumbled, but stayed.
But Spez didn’t want that, did he? If I had to guess, I'd say Reddit's official app is even more rigged with tracking than Tik Tok. That's why it lags - it phones home every time you pause in your doom-scrolling, to log what stories you're interested in.
That's the most bizarre thing to me. Without knowing Reddit's financials, it seemed like everyone could have their cake and eat it too. We could get a UX catered to how we choose to interact with Reddit and Reddit could make money hand over fist. We all knew the totally free experience wouldn't last. Reddit very easily could have been like "ok guys, party's over. We need to force ads on 3rd party apps". We'd bitch about it, but it'd ultimately be fine. This scorched earth approach to how they handled it is just so out of left field.
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Well, WSB is planning to short the stock as soon as the IPO opens. Technically that's investing
True, but there are hundreds of thousands of people who are willing to become mods, even with no pay and awful administration.
Indeed there are, and most will be shitty at the job, making Reddit even more unpleasant to be on than it is now.
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It's like they forgot what happened to Digg. They have forgotten the face of their father.
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Honestly, fuck 'em.
Reddit deserves to crash and burn in my opinion. Every social media platform eventually runs it's course and then is supplanted by something else. No idea if Lemmy is the platform that eventually rises from the ashes of Reddit, but everything from the way Reddit was run from a corporate level, down to the users was toxic as hell. It needs to go away.
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