The protests worked, and so did moving/editing/deleting our old content. As one person complains,

I’m not here for Reddit, but for the aggregation of niche communities. I follow a lot of obscure manga that have relatively small followings and recently I got into an IT job which opened a lot of technological exploration for me. The worst part about this change isn’t even that we are losing 3rd party apps, but that only members of the communities I frequent are the ones who care enough to protest. Can’t tell you how many times now I’ve looked something up on Reddit and find an answer to the issue I have, only to realize that the community is closed or the post is deleted in protest. Now we are stuck in this limbo where protests seem to have lost their steam, niche communities are being overthrown and killed because of that greedy little pigboy. Seriously, fuck spez.

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    1 year ago

    I’m still struggling with whether or not I’m going to astroturf my comment history
    I kinda feel like it does more harm to people just looking for answers than it ever will to Spez if I were to remove it

    Here’s what I recommend to have the best of both worlds, while still taking advantage of mass editing tools.

    Create a magazine or two on kbin specifically just to hold your content.

    Copy it over and paste it into your mags.

    Mass edit your content on reddit with the usual message, but also include a link to your kbin profile. Folks who want to see the useful content can still find it that way.

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      1 year ago

      Personally I’d be down to like mass edit my comments with an addendum mentioning that I’m no longer using Reddit and linking out to Lemmy, but I don’t want to overwrite the content of my comments.