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One thing Reddit did right was that it kept your content. Even if you were permanently suspended, you could go in and view your posts. This differs from, e.g., Google where you see people lose all their life's memories because they got locked out of their account.
I imagine that there are many people who don't even have a Reddit account, but casually browse it just because there's so much info in there.
But the users own that content, not Reddit. The best thing to do is to migrate by deleting your content from Reddit and moving it elsewhere. Once a critical mass of content is lost, Reddit's value drops tremendously.
Who would care when Reddit admins take over and forcibly reopen r/iPhone, if there are no posts left in the subreddit?
Do we know for sure that deleted content on reddit is actually deleted? It's not unheard of for things to just get a "deleted" flag in the database to stop displaying them, while still keeping the original content. Restoring deleted content would be fairly simply if that were the case.
Deleting your content is letting reddit off easy. Thats why I plan on editing every comment I've ever made with something like. "This comment was removed in retaliation of reddit's 3rd party api strategy. I suggest using alternatives like lemmy,etc " On a 10 year old acount and 1000's of comments, a lot of people are going to see that when coming across old threads.