When i stumble over reddit these days and start reading a comment thread, i almost always encounter this kind of comments, mostly in the most interesting part of the thread:

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It’s fucking annoying and frustrating.

This destroys the thing that made Reddit good. Coherent discussions that went somewhere, good or bad.

So, it really is working.

I know that this is the intended effect of erasing reddit contributions made in the past.

Make it so, that they shouldn’t be able to sell Reddit’s content anymore, because the solutions to problems or the nail biting stories within comment threads are mostly broken and/or incomplete.

Given how Reddit betrayed their user base, this is the way - imo

      • we are all@crazypeople.online
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        I’m not but I still refuse to use the site, just like all the other top social presences.

        like twitter. Who the hell wants to use a website bought by a nazi as his own little social media buddy.

        or Facebook with Zuckerberg.

        these sites are all owned and governed by complete shit lords.

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    Remember forums? They were amazing sources of information. They’re falling offline, because Reddit and discord. Now reddit and discord are enshittifying. I hope that redacting posts like that helps bring visibility to normal people, but I fear it’s not. Especially because ai scraped it already.

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    Had the problem last week. I searched for something super specific in Cookie Clicker and someone had the same question on Reddit. It went something like this:

    [Question]

    [Redacted]

    Thanks! But [more specific question]

    [Redacted]

    Oh thank you very much!

    I mean, yeah it sucks that I had to continue searching but I still had to smile that moment. Because this is what we wanted, making Reddit a useless Swiss cheese of a website. That’s why we deleted our contributions and it will only get worse with time.

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      I didn’t even try to login tbh. I still have my account, but also deleted my stuff.

      I ain’t going to comment on Reddit anymore, so no need to login. .

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        19 hours ago

        I had a good, long run on Reddit. It helped me get away and stay away from other platforms. Now I’m hanging out here. I hope it lasts!