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.
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.
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.
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.
"You retain any ownership rights you have in Your Content, but you grant Reddit the following license to use that Content:
When Your Content is created with or submitted to the Services, you grant us a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable, and sublicensable license to use, copy, modify, adapt, prepare derivative works of, distribute, store, perform, and display Your Content and any name, username, voice, or likeness provided in connection with Your Content in all media formats and channels now known or later developed anywhere in the world. This license includes the right for us to make Your Content available for syndication, broadcast, distribution, or publication by other companies, organizations, or individuals who partner with Reddit. You also agree that we may remove metadata associated with Your Content, and you irrevocably waive any claims and assertions of moral rights or attribution with respect to Your Content."
Obligatory not a lawyer, but reading this, while Reddit does not own your content, it does seem that they have a license or right to republish your content without direct credit.
indeed. thanks for the info. IANAL either, but the “irrevokeable” part suggests that, should they restore user data after a user initiated nuke, there may not be many options for recourse.
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.
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.
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.
isn’t that the point? your content drives traffic to the website. Removing said content takes traffic away from reddit.
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.
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.
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.
Per the reddit TOS for US citizens:
"You retain any ownership rights you have in Your Content, but you grant Reddit the following license to use that Content:
When Your Content is created with or submitted to the Services, you grant us a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable, and sublicensable license to use, copy, modify, adapt, prepare derivative works of, distribute, store, perform, and display Your Content and any name, username, voice, or likeness provided in connection with Your Content in all media formats and channels now known or later developed anywhere in the world. This license includes the right for us to make Your Content available for syndication, broadcast, distribution, or publication by other companies, organizations, or individuals who partner with Reddit. You also agree that we may remove metadata associated with Your Content, and you irrevocably waive any claims and assertions of moral rights or attribution with respect to Your Content."
Obligatory not a lawyer, but reading this, while Reddit does not own your content, it does seem that they have a license or right to republish your content without direct credit.
indeed. thanks for the info. IANAL either, but the “irrevokeable” part suggests that, should they restore user data after a user initiated nuke, there may not be many options for recourse.
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.
The amount of Google searches I’ve done which are of the form:
site:reddit.com some issueI think a Google result was how I stumbled across Reddit in the first place.Yeah, that’s exactly how I found it too