Mildly Infuriating

Is this your crypto key?

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.

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.

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 😒.

[-] thunderbox666 « 1 point 2 months ago

Pretty much any subdomain will go to the nginx server and it will only do something if youve configured that subdomain in the config - everything else just gets ignored, or you can setup a catchall to handle all the unconfigured stuff

so you will need something like this (might not be exact, been a long time since i had to configure NGINX haha)

server {
server_name ha.mydomain.duckdns.org;
location / {
proxy_pass http://hostnameOrIP1:port1;
}
}
server {
server_name nextcloud.mydomain.duckdns.org;
location / {
proxy_pass http://hostnameOrIP2: port
}
}

an easier way would be to use Nginx Proxy Manager which gives you a nice GUI to add and manage all the sites.

Thanks!

sharing actual text makes it searchable and easier to archive for the future

I did it to over 85000 comments across 6 accounts

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.

As I posted in response to another comment along these lines:

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.

By hurting potential users looking for the naswrdz you've diminished the usefulness of the site.

It's a long play. frankly nobody wins and everyone loses.

If one of their goals is to sell premium access to train LLMs this type of gibberish would hurt that. When you can't guarantee that the data source is coherent, then that would have an impact on the final model that is created.

I think a better approach is to transfer comments to a new platform or create new higher quality content. Could the solution to this problem become a guide that goes into more detail?

GDPR also allows you to do a data deletion request.