wow thats great mate cheers helpful

That's me and I have zero fucking regrets. Over 12 years I commented with solutions to tech problems. For a few niche problems, my Reddit answer was the only relevant answer Google returned. I sanitized it all. Fuck Reddit. They don't get to profit from me anymore.

Completely fair to be honest. This was more of a post showing its funny how useless reddit can be without its pissed off users.
I hope you at least provided those answers elsewhere.
Edit: I never said they were obligated to provide the info, but if they were willing to provide it before then I'm sure lots of people who relied on that info would be happy to have an alternative source for the same info, if the person I replied to was willing to provide it again. If not then that's up to them. It's not like I was demanding that they offer it.
- Are they obligated to?
- They aren't obligated to do shit for free

yeah sucks that reddit alienated all of their most intelligent users

Yep. Reddit shouldn't have pushed so many power users out.
Shit, if Lemmy is supposed to be the intelligent ones then all hope is lost
- Hey, I remembered a thread bashing winrar when thinking about needing a compression software then looked it up to see people's alternative recommendations.
  New strat
  Search: [insert shitty thing] sucks ass lemmy
  Then browse for recommendations
Not if you want to push the site hard to the right!
- What does it matter? Not our problem if it goes left or right let them have their shit cake.

It's funny when people on lemmy complain about this, when a month ago everyone on lemmy was deleting their reddit post history.

Deleting or using an overwrite script, and the reasoning was because in addition to pushing out 3rd party apps, douchecanoe Huffman was opening up reddit's post history to LLM training, so that was us giving him the finger on the way out. While I agree it sucks for people looking at it from an internet archival perspective, at the time it seemed more imperative to jab the crap out of him and reddit as a business.
- What's so bad about that? Even on Lemmy I'm posting things in public, intended to be read by the public, and if somebody wants to train AI on what I've given to the public then good for them. I refuse to use a walled garden. Being proprietorial about online posts is probably not the most effective response to online surveillance. I agree that Huffman is a douchecanoe though.
- I think many people just did it because Reddit still benefits from the Google traffic. I wanted results from Reddit to be less useful and I want people to be frustrated when they go to find an answer on Reddit and see it no longer exists.
It started early June. That was 3 months ago.
- Oh boy time is flying. I can't believe I've been on Lemmy over 3 months, and have barely used reddit in that time (only for finding answers to my technology questions, like OP lol). I used reddit daily for mant years and quit cold turkey (except the occasional puff).

The golden age of reddit being helpful has come and gone

Aside from not wanting to send any traffic their way, this is another reason I've excluded Reddit from my private search engine's results. Reddit's value has definitely diminished as a direct result of the protest against the API changes.

That's because the 10% of people they thought it was ok to fuck over were providing 90% of the non-entertainment value.

I find this in most questions about Hugo (a website generator program)
Your result for the search leads to a discussion on the official forums but the answer is either:
"This has been discussed before, use the search"
Crickets
- The StackOverflow experience.
Thats... how I got here.

Profitting from free user generated content is uncool. 👍

r/Canada and r/Minecraft

Many folks deleted their contributions when they migrated away. So it isn't intentionally trying to not help anyone else. It was just protesting against reddit more likely.

Also, some people just regularly purged their history out of privacy concerns.
- Also true.
Yeah, that's most likely what happened.

"pm'd you the fix" 😐

This reminds me of an xkcd but I dont remember the number

https://xkcd.com/979/

this is like daggers in my soul

the hope of possibly having a solution to your problem only to have it crushed all in the span of a few seconds
- one of the worst punishments in the history of man: false hope

cries in developer

I don't know what's worse. That or when OP replies, "nevermind, I figured it out" and nothing else

Try reveddit, just change reddit in the url to that, should show deleted comments

They show comments deleted by mods but they intentionally hide comments deleted by users
- Ah, well, TIL
  Never mind then!

Good thing there are tools for viewing old versions of a website (wayback machine for example). At least if there is a snapshot at the time where the comment was not deleted.

And add ons as webarchive allowing easy access to all those tools.

Now wayback doesn't work with normal reddit posts cuz the client side rendering bunged it all up, I just have to pray someone archived it on old.reddit.com

Are you clueless as to why it looks like that now?

No, I'm aware. It can just be mildlyinfuriating if there's some obscure issue you are trying to solve.
- Yep, for sure, but that was also the reason people did it. To shred its usefulness away.

The annoying thing for me is someone posting a question, getting help from the community, and then immediately deleting all their posts assuring that nobody can ever be helped by it again. This is kind of a reverse of that which I would say is probably less common?

The Wayback Machine may be able to help

And also stops Reddit from monetizing this volunteer-made content they intended to disrespectfully pilfer.

Read the room 😂

Fuck Reddit and that shitter spez too

4 months ago? More like 4 years ago.