I’m considering rewriting all of my comments, but I want to do this carefully and correctly because I’d eventually want to delete the account, so I wouldn’t be able to make changes
I want to keep it short and sweet, but be informative, make very good points, and hopefully persuade any user to try out the fediverse
What did you guys change yours to? I’m thinking something along the lines of this:
This comment has been rewritten so that its’ content is removed. On May 31, 2023, Reddit announced they were raising the price to make calls to their API from being free to a level that will kill every third party app on Reddit. This hurts many types of users, and the way that the CEO has handled the situation is not right at all. Reddit is another victim of pure corporate greed.
Some may not consider this important to them, but for anyone who sees this, I strongly encourage you to join the fediverse. It will be confusing at first, but it is very welcoming :) Alternative platforms:
I feel like it’s too wordy (I tend to ramble). I’m trying to find compact “elegantly worded” reasons about what’s going on and why it’s wrong, with links of good posts, but a lot of that is on reddit. Can you guys help a bro out?
I completely understand and respect your opinion, but I just disagree on a personal level - and I think there is a very valid compromise to still achieve this, by redirection. It would obviously suck a lot for people who just want to find information, so they can still get it. Just take them away from reddit
Like most of us probably, I exclusively used reddit for finding information about literally anything. Google search algorithm is straight hot garbage it’s embarrassing lol
If we want other non-corporate owned thread-like platforms to be successful and for reddit to “not get away with this” I personally think this has to be done. Otherwise it’s just still a free database of information that we as the users provided for free, and reddit will continue to profit off of. It’s my personal stance on it, but I think it’s not right, and I believe the extreme majority of people either won’t or won’t know how to use reddit as a search engine without giving them profits
My solution is to rewrite all of my comments, but for anything that I provided a solution for (or guide), I will redirect them to the same information, but not on reddit. For example, I wrote a full blown returning player guide (like 18 pages) for the game Vindictus, so I’m moving it to google docs. I will inform the discord, in addition to linking the google doc on the reddit OP, and possibly also reference a Lemmy post, give insightful information, etc
Most of my comments though are just discussions though, not many fixes or solutions. So that’s what I’m planning on doing
This is exactly what I did. I saved a copy of all my content (well PDS nuked some of it and didn’t save it properly, but I got what’s left).
I used automated tools but I left a message on how to reach out to me at my new hangout on each one. I think it shouldn’t be too hard to find the answer from there - and if it is, well hey, I’m open to answering a question or a few.
My content will be made available again, just not on reddit. reddit won’t get to profit from ads using my content. Folks on reddit will have to come here (or find me elsewhere) to get that info - so i’ll slowly redirect em from reddit to places like the fediverse.
How did you do this?
I wrote about it in https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/65260/PSA-Here-s-exactly-what-to-do-if-you-hit-the
I honestly don’t think more than about 30 upvotes worth of my 70,000 comment karma are anything actually useful. Most of it is acerbic takes on current events and the shitty Reddit in-jokes I post reflexively at exactly the right time.
But future Reddit visitors won’t know that. I plan to edit them to sound like they were about to say something really advicey, super handy to read, then mid-sentence “…[this comment has been deleted because the user moved to kbin].”
I feel that way too. I started trying to figure out if I should archive worthwhile comments (maybe move the comment text to a page on my site and create a link to it) but then honestly there are probably a dozen comments out of 40k in karma that might be worth saving (they aren’t my top ones either).
Maybe i should see if i can have ChatGPT replace them with the most-wrong version of the answer, but that also seems like work
What we need is a community here of ‘solved by Google threads’. If we find a solution to a problem online, say a tech fix. We can post it here, title is the Google search, body is a link to the answer, a pasted excerpt or screenshot of the answer that solved the issue.
“LetMeGoogleThatForYou”
Exactly, it is not even a “free” database you are paying in ad impressions to line the pockets of the likes of spez…at least when I work for my boss and.tramsfer my IP I get some money back for putting the CEO into his next yacht…when I give that ip to Reddit I expect some respect not a kick in the face and told to lick the shit off
Perhaps you could compromise and just edit the comments so that your message is blaringly obvious, while retaining the content below for those in need of it? I guess it’s nothing significant regardless, with the current destruction of history going on in Reddit, with the blackouts and all that.
I like the idea to add a link to the true answer on the fediverse. Those searching reddit will still find the answer but hopefully this will result in fewer ad views for reddit.
Google search results are really bad, but it’s worth a moment to consider how good your search results would be if as much money rode on gaming you as rides on gaming Google.