Exactly. Waiting for some communities to get formed (I don’t want to run them or be a moderator). Some have started but low activity, especially in the health genre.

I’m really excited for the fediverse. I also knew that patience would prevail on lemmy world as they deal with growth. Today has been amazing to see all the updates they did to improve performance.

Finding all sorts of cool stuff on many instances to subscribe to. I’m actually starting to like this more than Reddit w/Apollo which is crazy to even say.

That's why I saved a backup of my comments before I edited/wiped them all on Reddit.

When I get time I'll go through all 10 years worth of the backup to find information I can share again here.

I stripped years of posts off of r/vans when I realized my submissions were almost always the top results on Google images when searching basic keywords (not gaming the search). I've built !vans@lemmy.world here and I've been posting my content from reddit here.

The thought of leaving my content on reddit and driving further traffic to that site just left a bad taste in my mouth.

It’s crazy how some of the communications from their CEO has been.

He clearly thinks he owns all the content on the platform and even called the third party app users ‘freeloaders’ when a ton of them were top contributors to the platform.

I think the mentality at reddit leadership has changed just about 180° since it started. It's not just Steve Huffman, although he is leading it.

Originally they were part of building a community, and users were part of that community.

Now they have become an ordinary business, who believe they are providing a service that should not just be sustainable but monetized as much as possible, and users are no longer a real community, but merely users of a service for profit. No different from Google, Facebook, Twitter etc.

But it's a simple service, not more than a fancy forum, where users provide the content. It's doubtful the service is valuable enough, to allow drawing out much money on advertising before users go elsewhere. And when the users go, so does the content, which can easily turn into a death spiral.

This is what stopped me from doing it. I always feel like if I've helped make one person's day a little bit better, then I've done my bit as a human.

I know how good it is when you have a really complex, niche, problem and someone gives the answer you exactly needed, and I don't want to take that away from the public, even though a company I don't support is profiting off my comments and submissions.

As a developer, this hits deep. RIP quality answers & search results for c# (in my case) related quedtions

Sad, yes. And I'm willing to admit that it would hurt the people who have nothing to do with Reddit.

But if it keeps those people away from Reddit, see Reddit as not the place to find information, see Reddit as a place that was, full of [deleted] comments, see Reddit as an awful dumpster fire, it is worth it.

It's too easy to see Reddit as the Library of Alexandria, but it isn't. It was a place where people willingly shared information to other people, sure, but it now isn't, and it's more important for people to be made aware of that: It is no longer a place for sharing information.

EDIT: Typos and shit.

Yeah that's why I've decided to leave my account on there. I'm sure some of my posts may be helpful.

The reality is that as long as we're making centralized platforms driven purely by profit the center of knowledge we're going to keep burning the Library Of Alexandria.

Even if everyone wasn't removing their comments and making subs private, that content only continues to exist online for as long as it provides reddit some form of value. The value it provides you and others is only significant in so far as it serves reddits immediate profit motives. The moment they determine they can't meet their revenue goals they will shut it all down.

The only solution if we want to stop repeating this cycle is to go back to more sustainable models of distributed content, rather than the VC backed blitzscaling and hyper centralization that we know as social media today.

I do understand. The problem is, I’m hearing that Reddit is testing the idea of forcing people to log in. At that point, SEO becomes worthless as the spiders can’t crawl the data to even suggest it to you in the first place.

The fact of the matter is, Reddit is bloated in staff and expenses. They are already monetizing everyone’s content with awards and ads from users using their site and app. Now they are double-dipping with the API used by many to submit content.

They chose to bite the hands that feed them so many of us decided to stop serving them food, including the leftovers.

Who were you denvercoder9? What did you see?!

Hey, why not repost it on this site?

EU's GDPR officers will be very interested in Reddit's documented inability to delete EU Reddit users' personal data.

My Google search today linked to a technology@lemmy.ml post so it's happening

My plan is to delete all my content, but leave my profile intact, so posterity can see what a prolific contributor I was, but not see any of my content.