Gotta be honest, watching the titles of the posts getting deleted made me a bit nostalgic, because it was an almost 5yo account.

However, now that’s old news, and my account is totally gone.

I won’t miss it really, I like Lemmy a lot more.

  • rab@lemmy.ca
    8·
    1 year ago

    Controversial maybe but I’m leaving my 12 years of content up in case there is an answer someone needs

    I just won’t use it anymore

    • CoderKat@lemm.eeEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      Same. I’m not gonna make the internet worse to use because I’ve now left the product. As a user, it’s frustrating when I need help with some niche issue and find the perfect result on google, only for it to be deleted or otherwise useless. Deleting such history isn’t gonna make people want to use Lemmy or the likes. Such historical information doesn’t and will not exist on Lemmy. Deleting it doesn’t push people to an alternative. It just means it’s gone.

      I’m not gonna cut off the collective internet’s nose to spite Reddit’s face.

    • Pechente@feddit.deEnglish
      71·
      1 year ago

      That’s super nice of you but in the end it just adds value to a company that doesn’t give a shit about its creators.

      • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        5·
        1 year ago

        The search volume and ads do not justify the help for the greater good IMO.
        It fucks Reddit more over to use an adblocker and DDOS their servers to reduce the traffic.

        Please do not ddos them

    • 1984@lemmy.today
      52·
      1 year ago

      Consider removing it so users won’t find it… Because the less value they get from reddit, the more likely it is they will come here instead.

      • Zangoose@lemmy.one
        61·
        1 year ago

        They won’t come here… They’ll go wherever they can to solve the problem, which won’t be here because Lemmy doesn’t really show up in search results yet

        • 1984@lemmy.today
          31·
          1 year ago

          Depends on the search engine I think? I was getting lots of nice results on “Lemmy neovim” on Kagi.

          But yeah, fully aware that almost all people use Google and that the current results may not be as good as reddit.

          • Zangoose@lemmy.one
            31·
            1 year ago

            In my experience with google at least, you have to specifically add “lemmy” to get any results to show up (and a lot of them aren’t related to the search term, just general lemmy pages), which doesn’t solve the problem until enough people know to add it.

            I’m all for lemmy overtaking reddit but let’s not waste people’s time by deleting useful information 🙃. Deleting comments with solutions to problems will just come off as obnoxious and make people want to avoid lemmy.

        • KrokanteBamischijf@feddit.nl
          1·
          1 year ago

          I agree, reddit gets most of their traffic from the engagement surrounding the latest shitposts and low-effort memes. (Or just genuine community content if you prefer)

          Months old posts are hardly relevant to large scale user engagement and it’s unlikely that the one user trying to solve a problem by visiting a years old thread is going to have much of an impact.

          If people are going to move away from the site in a healthy manner, they need to realise for themselves that it’s time to move on. Better to have a bunch of hopeful and curious people looking for new opportunities rather than bitter and resentful users which are going to vent their frustration elsewhere.

        • Aldileon@feddit.de
          1·
          1 year ago

          There needs to be a script, that moves each of your reddit comment over to Lemmy and edits the reddit comment with a link to the lemmy post

          • bjornp_@lemm.ee
            2·
            1 year ago

            I have already seen bots that are moving complete reddit subs to their respective communities. It’s really annoying, because there’s no actual engagement whatsoever

            • anotherandrew@lemmy.mixdown.ca
              4·
              1 year ago

              It’s a compromise; the discussions aren’t lost, Reddit doesn’t get to have the data anymore, but like you said, there’s no engagement. The engagement needs to occur over here with new topics, possibly linking back to the copied old ones.

      • rab@lemmy.ca
        21·
        1 year ago

        I was active in sysadmin subs. My people need those comments

        • LifeBandit666@feddit.ukEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          Yeah I was in the Home Assistant sub. The number of times I Googled something I was struggling with, only to find a Reddit thread with MY comment telling people how to solve the exact issue I’m struggling with lol, I’ll leave it up.