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A screenshot, taken way before rexxit, of two comments on reddit, dated "1 year ago".

The first comment is by a deleted user and the comment has been removed. The second comment is a reply to the deleted comment and it says: "That solved it. Thanks!"

Edit: added temporal context.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I just came from another discussion on whether it's a good or bad thing that others can still see the username on some Lemmy instances even after comments get deleted. What do you guys think? I'd really hate to be the person in that image who would likely be flooded by DMs asking for solutions.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Deleting your Lemmy account will however also remove your username off posts, I think.

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

The history is likely saved forever. And an instance could be modified to not respect the update and deletions pretty easily

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

Sure, but it would border on illegal. At the very least, they would have to be far more carefull about GDPR and California law.

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

As much as reddit sucks right now, getting rid of decades of tech solutions that are not found anywhere else (not on the fediverse either) is not a solution. back up your reddit stuff somewhere and link to it from reddit, but don't delete it, and don't delete it and tell people 'because lemmy', people will hate lemmy.

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

Instead of "because lemmy", I'd say reddit now charges money for the content, but they did not pay the creator.

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

That's a problem with many companies... for example, Google Maps relies almost completely on its local guides that spend many hours of their free time adding content to google maps. Google makes money with ads, but in my >5 years of being a local guide, I only got a 15% discount for Google store as reward (after being a local guide for 4 years) which I don't even need...

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

I don't mean to brag, but I was a very active Guide for a couple years and I am still in the top 10% even though I haven't posted a review in two years. My profile info shows that I have had hundreds of thousands of views.

They gave me a pair of Google Guide themed socks. They were cheap, poorly sized, and wore thin quickly.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's infuriating, and even more when you start looking for that profit pattern in companies that range from "philanthropic" foundations leeching from volunteers while buying their own companies stock, to academic journals with CEO's earning ridiculous amounts of money over research that someone else paid.

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

Use "Because API changes" instead of "Because lemmy". But I agree; changing it to a link to Lemmy instead is better. Theres a shit-ton of valuable information buried on Reddit.

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

Honestly, those decades of solutions are useless unless they have both a version number and a date associated with them. And if that date is more that 6 months ago, it's probably still useless even if it has both.

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

I posted a reply with a "quick fix" to a Lenovo T14s issue, quite some time ago. That reply has kept getting "Thank you" replies now and again. I suspect that that will continue for a long time to come.

There is a lot of that kind of useful information on Reddit that doesn't get outdated for at foreseeable future.

Hell. I found a 14 year old solution to a Borland database issue I had at work, buried in some old forums, so don't dismis the value of old information.

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

You say that, but when your employer is still running Windows Server 2012, you'll find a lot of 10-year-old solutions to problems are still very much applicable.

Even beyond that, there are a lot of new versions of things that are still built on legacy software. Some things change but some things just remain the same for a long time.

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

This has been a meme for such a long ass time (even before Reddit) that any deleted post in a support type thread (or on a meme of the subject) was subject to someone replying "Thanks that solved it!"

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

The most common version of this is when someone posts to Stack Overflow asking about the exact problem in having.

The only reply is from OP: NVM. Fixed it. (4 years ago.)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

And you can never post the same topic again since it'll be marked as duplicate and links back to that useless-ass post

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

This has "searching desperately for a programming question only to find a stackexchange that's like "edit: nevermind I solved it" energy.

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

Nothing grinds my gears more than looking for a tech solution / coding solution to a problem, only to find one other person had the same issue, and then finding that the original post was either deleted like in OPs, or just "nevermind I fixed it".

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

I saw a few people editing all their Reddit comments/posts with an explanation as to why the info is gone and they also gave a link to where they could find their content reposted on Lemmy. Thought that was pretty clever.

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

This is the reason I didn't delete my reddit content. It's very annoying when the only post/comment related to my issue is on reddit, and it's been deleted. I don't want to be a part of that problem.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's the intention of users deleting their staffs: making reddit less useful, and therefore, shrink its traffic.

That's the downside of having a website completely runned by the community and volunteer moderators. You mess with them, you lose half of their contents. 🤣

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

Answers to tech problems aren't what drive reddits profits. They make way more in daily posts and memes. Deleting helpful comments hurts users way more than reddit.

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