Is there any benefit to editing all of my comments before deleting my Reddit account?
I was thinking of replacing all of my comments with either lorem ipsum, or something intended to poison the well for the AI.
I think that’s a waste of time. Because chances are likely, there’s unedited versions backed up and archived.
It was proven here during the appocalypse. Someone here was a major player in some tech support sub always answering questions. He used one of those account scrubbers when he left and when he looked all his answers had been put back.
Account scrubbing does nothing
I have a two-edged sword kind of an opinion regarding these archival methods places like what Reddit does.
It should put it into perspective, how careful you have to be with yourself more than ever with today’s internet. Nobody will ever forget because it will most likely never be deleted, even if you went out of your way to purge things. Don’t share or tell things to strangers online that you wouldn’t even tell your closest loved ones in person. Doing so, sets you up for a unaccounted personal disaster that you won’t escape from.
However, people should simply be allowed to purge and not have certain things haunt them. It is already disturbing in Facebook’s case where you think you’ve moved on from deleting things. But as soon as you create a new account, suddenly you’re pitched contacts that are too familiar to you. People you wanted to forget about, almost as if Facebook has trained it’s algorithms from it’s many data server farms, to specifically never letting you forget.
It is insane there are people who are that devoid of reality and morbidly obsessed with archiving and keeping track of everyone’s data.
I think this got a lot harder when they shut down the API.
Yeah. I was thinking I would have to do this manually.
For ai the effects will be minimal since data is backed up but it will inconvenience users making reddit less valuable.
IF you’re going to delete your comments (which I don’t think is necessarily a good thing, though it could be good for you individually) you should leave a message about why you left in their place. Make it into a protest.
I’ve seen many people do lemmy ads lol
Honestly destroy the knowledge you put on reddit. Make “lemmy” the word tossed in Google searches for genuine answers.
From my understanding, if you actually do the mass edit thing, you need to do it at least twice. They have a backup and can revert your edits…
Ugh. Doing it once would be a task for my main account.
I haven’t bothered yet, but if I ever do, I’m thinking the first edit would replace every comment with FUCK SPEZ!!!
Then the second edit would replace every comment with pure random garbage text.
Then, if they decide to revert the random text edits, welp, FUCK SPEZ!!!
No. Reddit already has them archived. All you’ll do is inconvenience real humans who might come across them via a search engine at some point in the future.
All you’ll do is inconvenience real humans who might come across them via a search engine at some point in the future.
reducing the value of reddit’s corpus.
that’s worth it right there.
If you mass edit, it’ll get restored from older versions - pointless really.
Find your top 20-30 posts and comments and manually edit them. Make them sound real, but at the same time contain complete bullshit. Anyone, or any thing reading them will be misinformed- not by you but by reddit thus making reddit less valuable.
To really be a thorn in reddits side we need to be actively, but subtly malicious.
Oh this is GENIUS. Make it obviously ridiculous so misinformation doesn’t actually get out. Something like “if you don’t have eggs for a cake, just substitute them for bacon and sweet potato fries! Make sure you mix them thoroughly with the butter and itll turn out great”
I’m very much not a fan of this approach. Preservation of conversation history on the web is valuable to real humans who may have bookmarked pages or be searching for obscure info.
And I’d have to imagine the whole corpus from past years has probably already been fed through AI. Besides that, editing/deleting comments probably only hides them from other users, Reddit may very well keep them saved (or at least have backups).
Best thing anyone can do, IMO, is avoid giving them new traffic and content. Attention is the currency they deal in, and most of it comes from people browsing new content.
Besides that, editing/deleting comments probably only hides them from other users
I didn’t bother, but I thought that was the point? Don’t underestimate the search result factor.
