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Reddit will not license their data, they will license your data. Reddit doesn't have any data of its own.

If you want to have real fun replace all your comments with eicar test strings.

A few highlights that I'd like to make about this tool and its usage. Note: on a prescriptive level I'm focusing on moral matters, not legal ones.

This tool allows you to edit your content. You might have allowed other people and Reddit Inc. to use it, but it's still yours. And you should be free to do whatever you want with your content, even if it inconveniences others. And people expecting you to give up your moral rights for the sake of their own benefit, frankly, are simply entitled.

Another user here compared this with vandalism; I don't think that the comparison is good, given that vandalism targets someone else's property.

I also think that people in general are focusing too much on the short-term consequences of the usage of this tool, and too little on the long-term. Here comes some bullet points hell:

• SEO "improvements" already caught up with the "add «reddit» to search queries!" trick. It's becoming less effective over time.
• Reddit is accumulating huge amounts of noise, due to increased bot activity and decreased moderation. It'll likely get worse over time.
• Reddit is walling itself off more and more over time. Eventually this info will become unavailable for anyone who ~~didn't sell their soul to Greedy Pigboy~~ isn't feeding that cesspool.
• Every piece of content that you leave in that site is yet another piece of content "inviting" other users to register and stay there, dumping their content into that increasingly walled garden, where it won't be available publicly. And while they're free to do so if they so desire (it's their content), you're also free to not invite them.
• There are alternatives to that enshittified platform, competing directly with it. (We're in one, by the way.) We should encourage people to use those alternatives, not Reddit.

Are you all getting the picture? You might be tempted to leave your content in Reddit for the sake of other people; even then, the pros of doing so are rather small, and there are cons not often mentioned.

Regarding LLMs, frankly? I think that it's mostly a neutral point. Sure, data hoarding bots will get your content from Reddit... but they'll do it if you post here in the Fediverse, in your blog, or elsewhere. The only alternative to not feeding those bots is to not speak "in the open".

Making info on Reddit useless to real humans is the main reason I need to set aside time to do this.

I really don’t care if AI trains off of what I’ve said. I do care that greedy greedy Steve Huffman killed 3rd party apps for it.

If Reddit’s use for searching obscure stuff goes away, there goes the biggest draw of the site. Get people going elsewhere. Like here!

Fuck Reddit.

That’s probably not going to be useful. Reddit keeps your original comment text.

do not choose something copyrighted.

Is that with a "nudge, nudge, wink, wink"? It would be such a shame if the whole project were jeopardised by such things.

This only affects scrapers. If reddit is selling the data, they will just sell the unedited version from their database.

This is ineffective and deleting or editing reddit comments has always been a circle jerk to make yourself feel good that you are "hurting" reddit in some way.

I think I have about 4000 comments on reddit. I've stopped using reddit last year in summer when they pushed their fucking API changes; have been on Lemmy since and never looked back. However, I still have the account, because sometimes I had really nice conversations, which I would like to look up once in a while, or to pick up something which I wanted to keep for another time, like a bookmark basically. I'm also one of the people who sometimes write really really much; walls of text as a product of a lot of effort I put in. It would be sad to see it all go away. Then again, fuck reddirt and it's management.

Is there a tool to back up my comments (or also the corresponding threads)? After that I'll gladly use the tool provided by luddite.

Lots of stuff like this already exists and has been proven useless. A guy here on lemmy was a big answer type on some tech support sub. He used one of the account scrubbers to nuke his account before he deleted. Went to look again a few weeks later and all his top comment answers had been restored.

They haven't bothered with most people because they simply aren't useful to making the place look attractive but no mater what you do your comments are stored and will be sold off to the AI companies.

Sucks it only works with the desktop version of Firefox.

How fast is it, anyway? I was on Reddit for 11 years and commented with the same frequency I do here. I have so, so much to edit.

Shit I already deleted my account.