Remember when Spez said it was “It’s time we grow up and behave like an adult company”? Apparently, that means paying himself $193 million and single-handedly tanking Reddit’s profitability right b…::undefined

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    9 months ago

    When I saw this news yesterday, it made me realize I hadn’t used Reddit almost at all since the purge last summer. I ran the PowerDelete tool last night to nuke my profile and then deleted my account this morning. 10 years of posts and comments gone but ill be damned if im going to let those posts stay and train AI to make this douche canoe any more money.

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      9 months ago

      It’s sad, really. So much humanity just bought for a sum. So much offered with nothing expected in return. There’s always someone who will try to profit from stuff like that, and they’re always horrible, horrible people.

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      9 months ago

      Do you have any way of verifying that it is actually gone? I bet it’s just gone from view but the data is still there.

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        9 months ago

        I’ll be filing a GDPR claim per account to get my data and have them permanently delete my content and information

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        9 months ago

        Your probably right, but short of going through and editing everything with nonsense (which could just be rolled back anyways) this at least provides me with some copium.

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        9 months ago

        I ran the tool and it cleared the sort by new list, but the sort by top list was still full of stuff.

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      9 months ago

      I ran the PowerDelete tool last night to nuke my profile

      Note that the profile only shows the last 1k comments - I did a GDPR request to get my data (took em a few weeks - they have a month the time to do so) and then used that data to find all my comments and replace a whole bunch of comments with GPT-generated bullshit about spez being a poopyhead.

      I won’t pick up my shit and move, I’ll kill the plants, salt the earth and poison the well. Fuck 'em. It’s all for shittificating the site for YEARS.

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      9 months ago

      Sorry, I’m out of the loop—what’s the new news? The article linked is from 2023. What happened recently?