Im working up the courage to. Ill never go back, but it is also hard to delete that much history just for a statement

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    Please don’t delete your Reddit account. It is of minimal impact to Reddit. Keeping a database of users and their posts is far less resourceintensive then actually serving them, Reddit won’t care.

    It does however screw ppl over when googling questions. We all know that adding site:reddit.com in google search is pretty much a must at this point when searching for solutions to obscure problems. Delete that and a bunch of potentially useful info is lost forever, and Reddit soldiers on without a care in the world.

    If you insist upon deleting all your Reddit data, please archive it first, so valuable info isnt lost forever.

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      I feel you on this and I am torn. the abuse by reddit centers around treating user content and the users themselves as an owned asset. burning your own content with fire is a valid protest with sort term pain and potential long term gain for everyone.

      my question is, what happens when reddit starts to restore user content with no link back to the original content creator account? I have not looked at the current reddit ToS. Does reddit legally think they own your content?

      search engine indexes eventually age out on dead content and, hopefully, 12+ months on “lemmy:” will be a thing.

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      I thought the point was to remove the valuable content, not the cost of resources to Reddit? Valuable content means consumer views, and consumer views attract advertisers, and advertisers generate revenue, which Reddit does care about. If I’d actually generated any content of lasting value over there, I’d delete it and repost it here.

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      It does however screw ppl over when googling questions

      isn’t that the point? your content drives traffic to the website. Removing said content takes traffic away from reddit.

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        Yeah, perhaps i should’ve been clearer in my og comment. What im referring to as content that matters is stuff like snippets of code, solutions software/hardware problems, useful life advice. Obscure content that isn’t found anywhere else on the web.

        If you look at what drives the largest amount of traffic on Reddit, its all reposted content from various other sites, nothing we can’t find elsewere. I wouldn’t mind that type of content being removed as it can be found elsewhere. I just care about niche stuff.

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      Agreed there, working in IT/DevOps I commonly find answers to technical problems by reading reddit threads. I don’t really care if people delete memes, pictures of cats, stuff like that… But please keep the actual helpful knowledge.

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      The amount of Google searches I’ve done which are of the form:

      site:reddit.com some issue

      I think a Google result was how I stumbled across Reddit in the first place.