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submitted 1 year ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

Some of Reddit’s most popular communities have posted open letters to the company with a series of requests regarding many key issues at the heart of the recent protests on the platform. They want a response by June 29th.

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[-] pandacoder@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Bad idea, this looks like Stockholm syndrome to me.

Reddit has already shown they will screw everyone over, and no amount of blowback so far has gotten them to change course.

Leave (and optionally try to give Reddit as much hell as possible on the way out). That's the only answer now.

I don't think there is any redemption either, even if u/spez is removed. He's not the first bad head of the company, if anything the company has never had any good heads.

[-] Cringe2793@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

I made a script that changes all my old comments to gibberish, but I haven't used it yet. I can't decide if it's a good idea or not. I'm not saying that my old comments are extremely useful, but I wouldn't want to prevent people from reading or having context or any help I've given.

[-] Restaldt@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

They will simply roll your edits back.

Dont give them the clicks

Just move on

Maybe delete your account

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

All deleting your account does is remove your username from your comments while also removing your ability to delete or edit said comments. It makes more sense to keep it active so you have more control over your data.

[-] Restaldt@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

And gives you a reason to stop visiting the site.

The data stopped belonging to you as soon as you posted it*

*unless you live somewhere GDPR applies or like california•*

•and if reddit actually complies•

[-] c2h6@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, reddit is restoring bulk edits made using the api but you can still go to your user profile, sort by top scoring comments, and manually change your top 10-20 comments

[-] mo_ztt@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Dude reddit isn't for you. It is okay. It is a business and they have a right to do whatever they want with their business, but IDK how many more ways they can say "You aren't important to me" before people stop saying "But I should be important to you!"

[-] blivet@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I don’t think that the people who provide the content and the people who moderate the content are wrong in thinking that they should be accorded some respect by a site that would be worthless without that content.

[-] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

Reddit has told them all to fuck off in a variety of ways for months.

At some point you gotta take the hint instead of trying to make peace with the abuser.

[-] Dark_Blade@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I don’t think they’re saying that users aren’t important to Reddit; what they seem to wanna say is that Reddit doesn’t care whether or not users are important to them.

The only thing you can do at this point is quit, because Reddit will only budge when it’s too late for them.

[-] gzrrt@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I don't see the point. If we've learned one thing already, it's that the users must control the platform. And that can never happen with Reddit

[-] AttackBunny@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

According to Reddit spokesperson Tim Rathschmidt, “We’ll no longer comment on hearsay, unsubstantiated claims, or baseless accusations from The Verge. We’ll be in touch as corrections are needed.”

So, this part, at the bottom of the article, tells me everything I need to know. Reddit is going to keep chugging along with their ridiculous plan.

[-] Marleyinoc@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

I haven't deleted my account on Reddit yet, still trying to delete my comments. Guess I should have used a tool.

[-] pachrist@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I found an article that uses RES to bulk delete comments. It worked well for me.

https://www.alphr.com/how-to-delete-all-reddit-posts/

I changed the interval to 500ms like the mentioned, and it wiped my accounts 12 year history in a couple of minutes.

[-] daniskarma@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Reddit doesn't want third party apps. They will get more money with their official app, simple as that.

For reddit you are just a wallet full of money. Spez doesn't see you in any other way, just walking money.

[-] xaon_rider92@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

It's nice that they still have hope and still love their community enough to want to attempt to seek some sort of resolution, but imo reddit the company is never going to budge now. It's personal for spez now, and the company is simply going to barrel on and ignore all these letters and everything. They're committed to their stance now, and they're going to simply wait it out, until all the opposing people have left/been kicked out and all that is left of reddit the community are those who either still support them or who don't care. It's sad, but imo the reddit as we knew it is dead, and it's time to accept that and move on.

[-] berno@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago

never gonna happen

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