I installed the official Reddit app and went on it to see what the old place was looking like now. My inbox was filled with spam. The “home feed” shows subs I never subscribed to. There are so many ads. Between the ads and the the extra subs in the feed, it’s hard to just scroll. I also noted a lot of spam in some of the subs. Maybe they are subs with no mods? I’m not sure what’s up with that.
Yep, that people continue to have the strongest reaction to deleting content shows that it is the only thing that has any impact, since it actually costs something unlike other actions that are as useful as virtue signaling.
All those old archives is what leads to click throughs and creation of new accounts too. I’m not sure why people think it just exists in a time capsule. After all that’s how lot of people end up creating accounts. Discovering they like the content or community after being recommended it by another user or search engine, and joining and contributing to it.
And there’s always archive.org too that backs up content.
My guy I am on this platform. Notice how this is not reddit? The reason why I have the “strongest reaction” is not because I support reddit, but rather because I have the experience of needing to solve some really hard problem, which leads to an ancient reddit thread with a deleted comment. It sucks. It’s still worth searching, because it’s rare that the answer has been deleted, and it’s still worth clicking, because you can’t tell the good answer was deleted. So reddit company gets the same clicks and data. It just sucks for the person, because you’ve deprived them of useful information. Archive really does not search that well a lot of the time. Yes, it’s possible that brand new internet users could be convinced to get a reddit account based on your comment. But if you edited it instead to add a link to lemmy and cite why reddit isn’t useful, you would probably do a lot more for them not going to reddit. After all, deleted comments are common far before the protests.
My criticism is loud only because I am confident it is a misguided effort to say “fuck you” to “the man” that undermines the work and hobby of thousands of real people.
Sounds like deleting is the best route to take.
This is some advanced reasoning skill you are exhibiting right now.
I can’t take all the credit. Your response was the most compelling one in favor of deletion.