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Megathread for Reddit Blackouts and News - Day 3 (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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hey everyone. if you want to post links or discuss the Reddit blackout today, please localize it to this thread in order to keep things tidy! Thanks!

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I do not cross picket lines. Later this week, once the protest is officially over, I plan on going on Reddit, backing up my data using the PowerDeleteSuite another user posted about, and then overwriting and deleting my comments and posts with a message about the protest, before closing my account entirely.

Lemmy has already grown a nice community of people, and I'll be glad to contribute and watch it grow over time!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Overwrite all your comments with “move to beehaw!”

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm going with the HD-DVD encryption key. It just feels right to go full circle.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That’s a great idea!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I considered that for mine, but given that replacing all my comments can be taken as hostile, I'd rather not associate them with Lemmy or Beehaw.

I just went with setting every one of my comments to [user data has been purged]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, I'm on the lemmy.world instance, but I was planning on doing something like that. I've heard that some bots have been going around deleting posts that mention Lemmy / the Fediverse though, so I guess we'll see how it goes. :)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Anytime I've mentioned Lemmy directly I immediately receive 3 downvotes lol.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I don't know what kind of comments and posts you've made on Reddit, but if any of them are technical how-to's or something that may come up when people search for specific problems, then it might be good to leave those comments, or else just prefix each comment with your "purged" message instead of overwriting them entirely. I mean if it's fun memes or discussions, then you do you 😅 I'm just thinking of the tale of DenverCoder9. Plus, it probably costs more for Reddit to store a longer comment than a shorter one! Pennies or less, but still!