Spare a thought for those that have bought Reddit Gold over the years, only to then discover just how much the CEO was paid, up against how much Reddit actually makes as a platform.
It’s not just free labour. They’re literally paying him.
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The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 1 month agoIf anything, they’re the ones benefiting from altruistic users giving them free labor to profit off of.
EnderMB@lemmy.world 1 month ago
pleasejustdie@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Pretty much, when they removed search engines who wouldn’t pay them was the final straw and I went back to reddit 1 last time and replaced all my 26,000 karma worth of comments with “Comment removed in protest of Reddit blocking search engines.” Took me a while, but meh, if they want to hasten its enshitification, I don’t mind doing my part.
kitnaht@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Some users have actually reported Reddit going back and restoring those very comments.
pleasejustdie@lemmy.world 1 month ago
yeah, I had heard of that, I’m hoping that since it was a while ago and most of them were the ones done by automated systems and not going through it comment by comment editing them, but I’ll keep at it, if I have to sneak one edit through a day or something.
Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 1 month ago
If it’s an automated system, wouldn’t it be written to just look at the original post date, and if the comment was changed (say a month or a year) later, then the script restores the original post? I mean you could get fancy and have the script check if a user is changing all of their comments to the same message, but that seems like overkill. On the other hand, I’ve been running into quite a few posts lately where it’s obvious a single person has simply deleted all of their comments, and I don’t think those are getting reverted?
Cephalotrocity@biglemmowski.win 1 month ago
Can confirm. At least, mass deleting via api no longer worked last I tried.
skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
They have an edit history for every piece of content on the site. All you’ve done is post a giant flagpole on all your content stating “this account was previously owned by a real live human” and increased the value of those comments for AI scraping. Unfortunately your protest has done nothing but help them.
The best way to stick it to reddit these days is to not interact with it at all. Don’t add to their data store, don’t give them traffic, don’t click on them in search results. Don’t protest-edit your content because you’re just helping them separate wheat from chaff.
Gigasser@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Might help just to subtly edit your comment in a way that make any advice or content you’ve given shittier. Like if you have some sort of tech support comment, just edit it in a way so that the piece of tech support you’ve offered is some standard answer for the problem that doesn’t fix anything. And while you’re at it, move the comment which offers the fix or piece of advice to Lemmy.
btaf45@lemmy.world 1 month ago
How about just replace some of your content with this stuff from time to time.
loremipsum.io
Fapper_McFapper@lemm.ee 1 month ago
I did the same thing except I deleted all of my comments instead of replacing them. Not only did Reddit undo my deletion they locked me out of my account and no matter what I tried to do I was never able to gain ownership of the account again. Then they sent me letters asking me to buy into their shitty IPO. Fuck Reddit and a very special fuck you to spez.