Hi, it might be against what most people feel and think right now but I feel that it needs to be said.
I come from rational place even though I currently hate reddit and removed it completely from my devices, but I’m not going to delete my posts or nuke my comments.
Like it or not Reddit is still a huge database for a lot of solutions and great posts and discussions about opinions, reviews, how-to and many many more. Lemmy will take time to keep the pace and be filled with these types of content. And it might might take years to get to it (I really hope it will).
Deleting and nuking posts and comments are only distroy what we and the entire reddit community built over the years and it will be a huge loss for all of us.
If you ask me, the best way to say ‘fuck you’ to reddit, is keep all the old Content there, try to migrate as much as we can here and from now on build this content here. When/if Lemmy be mature enough we can go back and fuck everything up on reddit.
This is my 2 cents.
The point is to put your uniquely provided information somewhere else, like Lemmy. Google will figure out how to prioritize this information eventually. Delete it from reddit so that it’s no longer the internet’s repository of information.
By all means, you do you. But here is how I see it.
- Reddit is now all out to get money. I don’t want them to use my content to get it. I was fine going so when they provided a service, but now that I don’t like their terms, my content will be gone.
- There is next to no information I provided that is unique. If I found a solution, it’s only because I founded it elsewhere. I am not destroying information.
- For that which is unique, it is merely my opinion, and see point 1.
I wrote it, it’s my content and I will delete it if I want to. The value and knowledge there deposited comes not from the text itself, but from who I am as a person, my years of study and experience. Reddit doesn’t own either, nor has any right to profit from my labor. If anyone wants anything from me they can ask me directly elsewhere. Whatever is worth preserving for posterity’s sake I will systematize and publish in books. Whatever of value is worth sharing and distributing I will do so out of my own volition, on the platforms of my choosing and under the conditions I agree upon. Fuck Spez.
You’re not the first person I’ve seen make this argument, and it’s definitely a difficult situation.
End of the day though, this line of argument essentially allows Reddit to hold us hostage. While it is unfortunate that this will be in some ways harmful to the internet as a whole, it’s ultimately our content, and we have the right to remove it if we wish.
That said, I do think that, if anyone has a history of being particularly helpful on Reddit, they should consider backing up their comments, and possibly reposting the relevant information to a blog or something similar, or maybe even here on Lemmy.
