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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.

  • brianshatchet@kbin.social
    5·
    1 year ago

    Same here. I’ve left all my posts and comments up on Reddit. I’m sure it’s made it’s way in some form to Bard or ChatGPT. Just never know when some information would be helpful in a pinch, especially if it’s tech or programming related.

    The loss of /r/homeautomation has set me back a week at least with respect to home maintenance. The loss of knowledge is crazy.

    • abff08f4813c@kbin.socialOP
      4·
      1 year ago

      Just never know when some information would be helpful in a pinch, especially if it’s tech or programming related.

      But wouldn’t directing redditors to the fediverse to get their answers (specifically like “Content moved due to reddit’s stance on … link to this answer is at https://kbin.social/m/….”) be better?

      Just never know when some information would be helpful in a pinch, especially if it’s tech or programming related.

      That’s exactly why we need to work on rebuilding it in the fediverse. The danger with reddit is that this info would have always been lost no matter what. Because of central control a mod could hide it. A reddit admin could outright delete it. The ceo has edited comments before. Why should we trust that our content will be safe with him?

    • keegomatic@kbin.social
      2·
      1 year ago

      Funny you mention /r/homeautomation, I’m in the same boat. Pro tip, though: if you found the Reddit result using Google, you can always look at the cached content.

      If you’re on mobile, first open the search results page as the “desktop” version (for some reason it’s not an option in the mobile view). If you’re or after you’ve done that, click the three dots next to the result. When the modal pops up, click the dropdown arrow under “More options” at the top. Then click “Cached”.

      Voilà. Read post and comments despite it being private/in protest.