Reddit started doing what they always wanted to do, sell user content to AI.

Haagel , 4 months ago

I've just deleted my Reddit account. That's the last straw for me.

Fake4000 OP , 4 months ago

Deleting doesn't actually delete it all. I remember a Reddit user once filed a GDPR for restoring his information after he deleted them.

Haagel , 4 months ago

Yeah, I figured as much. At least they can't count me as a user when they go public.

Nougat , 4 months ago

Before they shut down the APIs, I deleted all my posts and edited all my comments.

Spez doesn’t get to profit from me anymore. And hopefully I’m poisoning the well.

rottingleaf , 4 months ago

TBF for many things I write on the Web, I'd actually want to have a bot that writes them instead of me.

furzegulo , 4 months ago

i stopped using reddit and deleted my accout and posts when they introduced those fucking nft-avatars and it seems that they've been going downhill ever since that.

Fake4000 OP , 4 months ago

Those NFT things were just a bad move.

thantik , 4 months ago

When you delete your account and posts now, unless you edit them first, all deleting them does is hide their visibility in the database. The post is still there.

furzegulo , 4 months ago

well damn

AtmaJnana , 4 months ago

they were headed downhill loooong before NFTs became a thing.

aesthelete , 4 months ago

Went ahead and started running redacted on my old account.

Nothing says we're just another brick in the wall like writing posts that wind up being used to train a plagiaristic corporate unemployment machine.

platypus_plumba , 4 months ago

What prevents people from training a model with Lemmy's data?

Duamerthrax , 4 months ago

Nothing, but the lemmy admins can't be the only one's profiting from it. Reddit killed 3rd apps and academic research so they could be the sole profiteers of the user data.

erAck , 4 months ago

It will get trained on some comment posts.

Let reddit die. Join Lemmy or /kbin. https://join-lemmy.org/ https://kbin.pub/

Psythik , 4 months ago

Um, we're already here. You should be posting this on reddit instead.

erAck , 4 months ago

I did that some months ago already, changed all my comment posts.

LightDelaBlue , 4 months ago

So nothing realy new after alls half reddit is repost bot .

Kbobabob , 4 months ago

Lol, what do you think Lemmy is? There's a lot of posts on here directly scraped from Reddit by bots.

Postreader2814 , 4 months ago

That post reminded me that lemmee exists. Accounts didn't work that great when I first got here but I made one today and got verified. Logged out of Reddit for the last time and replaced my comments. Eff that place right in it's a-hole. Good riddance.