Good. This is part of the protest, reddit doesn't deserve the complete monopoly of information.
this post was submitted on 07 Aug 2023
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Dude, that's not the point, the point is, the info was right there, and now, it's not... it's frustrating when you know that someone had the exact same issue as you and asked on reddit and there was a reply that solves the problem, but someone protesting thought it was a good idea to delete all of his/hers comments, plus the user π.
I agree with protesting, but this is just... excuse the language, but idiotic IMO.
Be mad at Reddit for fucking shit up. Also, since ChatGPT has this information since it likely scraped reddit before the purge you can ask it in an extremely detailed prompt and you might get it. Works for me like 7/9 times.
Works for me like 7/9 times.
Wow. Great. And if that post were still viewable it would work like 1/1 time.
Listen man, I rely on the internet as much as the next guy but if Reddit shitting the bed is gonna fuck you over this hard maybe you need to reassess your problem solving skills.
My dude, what do my problem solving skills have to do with anything? If the post were still there you would not need to ask a chatbot to get a probably maybe correct answer, you'd have the correct answer. Its simple as that.
You obviously have a problem to solve if you are looking for answers on the internet ya dingus.
~~Oh really, and where are you searching for answers when troubleshooting, the library π?~~
Sorry, read it wrong π.
But did you try stack overflow?
I mean that's going to shit to atm with their recent dustup with the community.
OK, will try that as well.
I know what you're saying, but protest is supposed to be disruptive, so yeah. Reddit's only a host for that information, it's the right of the person to rip that comment off the internet, nothing idiotic about it. Giving Reddit the information to monetize while quitting is like paying the shop that rip you off while stomping out the store.
Do ask the question here though, maybe someone else can help.
I asked the same question on the Void comm here, no replies π.
Some people just don't get it, some subs will never shift over to Lemmy... ever. The Void sub is a perfect example, their sub is their help/troubleshooting forum. It's a means to an end for them and the maintainers will never ever shift over here. Too unstable and unusuable for them. Basically, they don't care about reddit policy or API pricing, it doesn't affect them, it's a niche sub. And the number of people on Lemmy that use Void is... just close to none... and even if there are some, they probably don't know how to fix the problem I've been having since I asked and there were no replies. I litelarly copy/pasted the same title and text there, on reddit whwn I asked the question.
Or, and hear me out hereβ¦
Maybe this person deleted their content for some other reason. It happens all the time, Iβve come across gobs and gobs of deleted comments and that was well before the protests.
Sure more people deleted stuff because of the protests, but tons of people did so either way. I was one of them. My comments never stayed live for more than a week or two.
Could I ask why you would delete your own comments after a week of two?
Mostly because some of what I shared was deeply personal anecdotes, and I didnβt want that information readily accessible as an aggregate to anyone who wanted to stalk my profile.
Sure, all that shit was archived, and someone who really wanted to could see it, but it was just an extra layer of protection as a woman on the internet sharing personal things. Made it just that much harder to use myself against me.
Rather than trying to figure out what to save or get rid of, I purged all of it manually.
It also gave me an opportunity to review my comments and the context, in case there were ways I could improve how I approached things.
Oh, yeah, makes sence in that case. Thought it was some other general information, like troubleshooting info.
I can get behind stuff like this, sure, but not with stuff like I posted π. There was valuable info there that could've solved my problem in an instant, but I just had to go the long way around π.
Some of it was troubleshooting stuff, some of it was helpful advice for setup and problem solving for a variety of things, and a ton of it was educational top-level comments that provided the whole context for the threads under them. I had some 500k karma on a 4 year old account, and 0 posts. Everything was purged regardless, because I felt like it.
Itβs not my job to retain information for the future, but you can look at an archive of it anyway if it really matters to read, so itβs not actually a huge loss in most cases. Just more work for you.
You delete comments here as well?
No, as a rule, but with a few exceptions. I have deleted maybe 10 comments and 1 post (and the post was sort of a test, it didnβt matter, I just wanted to see what happens when you get upvotes and delete the post - it was my kitten, and it sort of broke my post upvote count until I posted again, so useful information, same with comments, so idk how many I even have now).
Iβm leaving my comments intact here because the platform needs that, and I am absolutely a team player, but I have drastically changed the way I interact so thatβs an ok thing for me.
Eventually, when they get discovery sorted for small servers, Iβll make a secondary account on my own self-host server for more personal stuff, so I can have better control of my information. It just wasnβt something I bothered with on Reddit, I was a very small and largely insignificant part of Reddit.
Discovery is never gonna work on the fediverse. Info is too scattered. Sure, large servers will get discovered, but not smaller ones. They come and go, URLs change... it's a mess.
People have been scrubbing their accounts and comments for the past ten years on Reddit, long before these current protests.
Yes, and? It was not a better idea then than it is now. Actually it was worse then since it wasn't related to any protest.
I can't imagine why you're trying so hard to be upset about the idea of people being able to control their own work.
I totally agree with you. The protests were fine, but "hur dur delete my account and everything on it so noone can ever see it again" was a fucking stupid idea when you're protesting for the freedom of the internet.
Exactly my thoughts... just leave man, I left as well π€·. They won't get any more info from you but leave the info alone, it's valuable when people troubleshoot online.
digital information decay
I get it, but this ain't a meme
Didn't know where to put it... just thought might pass as a meme...
Maybe he's on lemmy now
Doesn't matter, I have no idea who the user is.
When in doubt grep the contents of every file and grab a beer while you wait.
sudo grep -rnw "libpango-1.0.so.0 pango-1.24.0_1" /
I managed to get pointed in the right direction, but no thanks to that user π.