but TBH i also wiped all my comments clean using powerdeletesuite
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Is this your crypto key?
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I understood that reference.
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Ask here in lemmy.
I posted a question a couple of days ago in Windows 98 community. After submitting the post, I noticed last post submitted was 2 years ago.
I felt down and thought about deleting the post but to my surprise I got an answer in an hour or so.
Posted a question to lemdro.id last week and sofar only got useless bot replies that seemed to have scrolled previous reddit posts about the same question.
edit: to fix bad phone autocorrect.
I’m not expecting the same results to be always similar to my experience or at least positive.
Also, I’d stick to popular instances since I’d expect moderators to be stricter than random instances when it comes to bots.
Some communities decided to have a separate instance such as piracy iirc.
lemdro.id is quite strict regarding bots, I run it! I’m not sure what post they were referring to since I can’t see it in their history
This is one of the bots that responded. I did a “bad bot” type reply to it and it delete or someone delete it’s post. https://lemdro.id/u/GPT4
I dont particularly have an issue with bots and this one is clearly marked a bot. The main issue is that it just searched and summarized the top 10 reddit answers to the same question which I had already done… Im sure the bot didnt break any of the bot rules. It’s just that bots dont generally give good answers to questions without refinement to the parameters. If I was directly using ChatGPT I’m sure I could get it to give an acceptable answer to most questions. But a random bot giving a general answer is not much use. (To me at least).
Sometimes people just dont have answers to the questions… Bots always do sadly even when they are not correct.
Hey, thanks for pointing this out. I asked around and this is actually ran by one of the other admins on the instance. They generate the responses manually and then paste them as a comment. The account is marked as a bot so that users can disable showing bot accounts in their profile settings.
I know this doesn’t functionally change your point, but Lemdro.id is still growing (over 10k subscribers now…), so hopefully you can get some better answers in the future.
I imagine as it grows it will become more useful. It’s not particularly my viewpoint that lemdro.id isnt useful. The opposite is true. I was just pointing out in my original post that, sadly, all I’ve gotten sofar were unhelpful bot responses. I wasnt particularly trying to push an agenda or anything. I like lemdro.id and am registered there and will help where I can to make it better… but also bots… :D
No worries, your experience is totally valid thanks for sharing it. I’ll mention it to the other admin running that account :)
A few days after the API changes were announced, a massive number of old-reddit pages were archived. Technically-minded people should have no issue finding the original comments.
And the traffic doesn’t go to reddit, which is exactly what we want.
Unfortunately, this comment is only 4 months old, which means it isn’t in the data that is separated nicely in individual subreddit files. Instead it requires parsing through a massive 151GB file. Let’s see how long it takes me to get the edited comments.
Bold to assume most people going to Reddit for answers to questions are technically-minded.
I got more help on r/selfhosted and c/selfhosted than I did on Traefik’s own forums
sometimes you can find answer to things that aren’t even answered in stack overflow but answered in reddit. that was one of the things which made me use reddit at one point. hope lemmy create that kinda community here too.
This guy’s taking a screenshot of a thread on r/HomeAssistant looking for advice on how to reverse proxy multiple services at their gateway router so they can access their self-hosted HomeAssistant and NextCloud from different subdomains at the same IP address.
Pretty sure they’re a technical user.
But yeah in general it sucks but I’d consider Reddit a dead resource at this point. But, if you do find content there that is useful, REPOST IT HERE. Let’s make this place useful for nontechnical users!
So all you’re saying is that deleting your posts to get the engagement down works perfectly?
This is why I haven’t touched any of my own comments
Me as well. I’ve been in situations where complete strangers online have answered and helped me so many times regarding problems I’ve had, so I’ve tried to return the favor through reddit and other platforms. I have no intention of doing this, this is just… mean IMO. You open the link in hope of finding an answer and you run into… this 😒.
As someone who helped to generate those types of answers and then deleted them all.
Fuck Reddit, they didn’t pay me for that work and then they dicked me over in chase of a half penny. Sorry the rest of the world doesn’t get to use my work for free, but Reddit broke the agreement. I post content, they provide a good user experience. They failed their end, I rescinded mine.
I never got paid for anything either, but neither did everyone else that helped me over the years.
Of course, the choice is yours, but it’s not OK IMO.
Comments and posts that are just for entertainment, sure. But technical help isn’t a transaction between you and Reddit. It’s a friendly transaction between users purely out of the desire to help, and leaving it available to those who have the same question.
It’s like those posts asking for assistance on something extremely specific you also need help on, only for the next post to read, “never mind I figured it out” with no additional information.
Yeah, you might hurt Reddit by removing that information, but you’re also hurting everyone else that may need help in the future.
It’s a friendly transaction between users purely out of the desire to help, and leaving it available to those who have the same question.
Further, it’s a transaction that Reddit facilitated out of their own pocket. I think people are being extremely petty about it. It’s best to just mourn and move on, we can still appreciate the golden years that Reddit gave us.
While as a user it sucks that is exactly the reasons people do it. It takes the value away from reddit, if the content that users want to see it not there people will not go there.
What I find the best compromise is users that take their comments they had on reddit and post them again as it’s own post to lemmy with the context needed. While not perfect the information is at least not lost completely and a google search in the future might actually bring someone to a lemmy instance instead of to a corporation like reddit. But that is obviously a lot of work to do, especially if you have lot of helpful comments on reddit.
You know how I joined reddit? None of the reasons everyone else might have, it just looked like a cool place. No one uses it where I live, except a few hundred people.
That being said, this was after years and years of me leeching off of comments on reddit. So, I thought I’d give the community something back… it’s only fair. I come from the forum scene, that’s how forums work. And let’s be honest, no matter how much we started hating a place, we never did this back in the day. Why? The info shared in those posts is probably more valuable than whatever we’re trying to achieve by doing this.
Of course, it’s your choice, your account. I’m just saying that I think it’s selfish and mean and that I would never do it. The free flow of info is what keeps the net going. You start tempering with that and you’re just fueling more users into mass media (if everyone did this, users can’t find any info about anything they’re troubleshooting and just return to doomscrolling on FB/IG/Twitter).
I agree, it seems very petty to me. If you don’t like the direction just leave, what’s the point of trying to burn it down? Especially given how much we all got out of it throughout the golden years. I say just mourn and move on.
Exactly. Just move on.
This is the only effective way to protest reddit, though.
I care more about being helpful than protesting Reddit.
Protest and stand up to free labour cooperations.
Archive your profile on archive.org and then fuck Reddit.
How do you archive your profile on archive.org?
That won’t make it easier to find when troubleshooting for a problem online. And your profile is tied to conversations in threads, simply archiving your posts is just a blob of useless data with no context.
Me as well. One of the reasons why I will never do this.
Every comment should have a reason why it is like this
The Home Assistant community is very responsive and can help with this kind of stuff if you can’t find the answers you need just from searching around.
LMAO I’m dying.
I wonder how many people did this. I did, and deleted my posts as well. But I was mostly a lurker there and so my edits and deletes didn’t really mean anything.
I changed mine to the vaporeon copypasta
I did my own script for it. Most were deleted, a few recent ones were left edited.
It does suck for someone who wanted anything useful I posted, but ultimately I think Reddit having it to draw any traffic is more harmful. I want them to lose their stranglehold now that they’re abusing it.
I did it to over 85000 comments across 6 accounts
For what reason did you have 6 accounts?
Too big for just one jim
I would typically abandon an account after one year and make a new one. I used my first one for about 6 years before I started that practice, which was spurred because I got doxxed by a malicious mod.
These are the ten words of wisdom right there.
but TBH i also wiped all my comments clean using powerdeletesuite
Same here! “No IPOs without APIs” is what I spread around 14 years of active Reddit use. Let it sit a few weeks to get backed up a few times and then erased it all.
To answer the question…
Yes. You can do that. Quite easily. Just need a reverse proxy. I prefer traefik. Nginx is the most commonly used option here.
This is how I want to see more reddit posts. You mess with our favorite apps, we remove our helpful comments.
If anyone is interested in the actual answer, they are basically suggesting <REDACTED> which is really cleaver and will solve OP’s situation
We got a jabberrer!
I’ve done the exact same thing on 2 accounts. There was some good information on them but now it’s a bunch of gibberish.
