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The fact is that there is some useful info that only is on Reddit. No shame in looking that stuff up since that’s where it is.
The main thing is to stop using Reddit as your go-to time waster/doom scrolling app
Now I will doomscroll on Lemmy. Problem solved
Tbh the lack of people and content here has limited my doom scrolling tremendously.
Also helps that everyone here is like a kid on their first day of high school or college. Zero toxicity! 😎
Give it time. The toxic trolls will soon realize they're all just talking to each other and come to the fediverse for fresh meat.
I don’t think trolls think that hard. It’s all for instant gratification. There are few dedicated and motivated trolls. It’s a low effort sort of deal.
Same. I'm feeling so good about myself now.
Actually for the first time I'm contributing now, on reddit I tried a few times but I never liked it, and never did more than liking.
If people stop providing useful information on reddit, it's usefulness will disappear over time.
There are also lots of people using Shreddit to remove their entire log of comments.
I'm debating whether or not to do that with my account... I have several comments with solutions to specific tech issues, documentation on specific things. At the same time, I feel less and less comfortable with Reddit benefiting from information users provided for free.
I've been on the fence about wiping my account as well. It's just hard for me - my history, wholesome interaction with users, friends made, how many people I've helped, I've written a few guides. Man it just sucks. (the largest guide I've written, for Vindictus, is partially outdated, but also I put in sooooooo much effort into it and I'm really proud of it. maybe I'll download and save as a .doc or something)
I think I just need to hear someone's stance on it, hear their points, and be persuaded
I also need to figure out -when- to do that if I end up doing it. I assume before the 30th, but I'm not sure if some have started doing it already, and why
Request your data. Upload the contents wherever you please. https://www.reddit.com/settings/data-request
It's not worth continuing to bring attention to Reddit as a platform when we can export the meaningful stuff and host it elsewhere that actually values the community itself rather than the monetary income that the users could provide.
Grab those comments and repost them in a place where you are more comfortable. You can keep that knowledge out there without needing to keep your account if you don't want to. Some of those apps actually give you your comment history in a file when they're done.
If you don't have too many maybe consider posting them on Lemmy as new posts before deleting them? Keeps the information discoverable and helps populate Lemmy with good content, while giving Reddit the middle finger - TRIPLE WIN!
I'm personally planning on wiping my account (I'm waiting for my GDPR export) and getting all the important stuff I wrote on my own "property": on my wiki (or, rarely, on my blog)
(For those interested: https://wiki.thefrenchghosty.me/ - no ads, no trackers)
Honestly? ChatGPT (4) is basically a stackoverflow 2.0. It’s my goto when I want help with specific problems. There are alternative options, is what I mean.
I deleted all my comments on Reddit. I do not want them to benefit from my knowledge even if it might inconvenience someone else
The big problem with chatGTP is that you never can be sure that it's right, you need to check it. On reddit and sites like it, you can see the amount of upvotes, which shows you if they are right or not.
I have seen a lot of highly upvoted comments on reddit which were very, very wrong.
I still use reddit for help on things. But for topics that I'm less knowledgeable about (so I can't gauge the accuracy myself), I try to just take everything with a grain of salt.
It helps that if something is wrong on Reddit, another redditor usually points it out since there are many eyes on any particular thread.
True, but the chance of it being wrong is substantially smaller than the chance of chatGTP dreaming up something.
A lawyer wasnt aware of this and used it to do research on a case. It went poorly.
Jup, legal eagle fan here (:
One of my favorite parts about reddit is people will always be there to call out your BS, whether it be via downvotes or a comment. I always appreciated that because more times than not, they will tell them they're wrong and explain why, sometimes even with sources. A lot of the time, they redirect people to better sources of information, like a telegram group about a custom android rom
Of course, this isn't true 100% of the time, not even downvoted comment is wrong - like the other person commented, it's fair to take it with a grain of salt
That's why my solution for this is to research a topic EXTENSIVELY by reading tons of threads and comments about it, put them all together in my head and consider them all, and then decide on the best outcome/answer based on all the research combined. That way, I don't just rely on 1 person's response and hope they're right. For most things though, them being wrong might not even make a huge negative impact
I've found that Redditors also generally have our backs - they warn us about stuff to do or not to do, that companies don't warn us about because it would otherwise profit them
We also don't know if search engines will pay the new fees to index reddit, so that could potentially make it disappear faster.
Really? Doesn't google and similar search engines use web crawlers, outside of the devloper API of reddit? Or is that different for reddit?
Currently yes, but I'd imagine they're also going to disallow crawlers via robots.txt or what's to stop OpenAI and friends from acquiring the corpus that way? Though of course that assumes this whole thing is really thought through which might be a big assumption on my part...
I think they will probably whitelist google's and microsoft's webcrawlers, seeing as it's kinda a huge source of traffic for them. But I'm far from an expert in this field XD
I mean reddit has become a insanely huge knowledge base for all sorts of technical problems and other topics. I've searched with site:reddit.com so many times for problem solving.
Yeah exactly and me too! It will still have its use (until they decide to remove that too).
Funnily enough, I’ve found that ChatGPT gives really good technical troubleshooting tips (like DIY and programming stuff). Cuts my troubleshoot time down tremendously.
I think this is exactly right. I plan to use info available on reddit as reference material if needs be, but I will no longer be posting and therefore creating more content for reddit to sell on in the future.
Personally it feels like working for free by posting on Reddit. Id rather create content about my hobbies here where no one is making money off of it.
I'd be interested to know from someone more tech-savvy whether googling advice, and then clicking on the cached version, still counts as viewing reddit. Because I'd ideally still like to append reddit to my google searches without giving them ad views.
AKA if someone monetises advice given for free, we should be able to freely access it.