Hi, it might be against what most people feel and think right now but I feel that it needs to be said.
I come from rational place even though I currently hate reddit and removed it completely from my devices, but I’m not going to delete my posts or nuke my comments.
Like it or not Reddit is still a huge database for a lot of solutions and great posts and discussions about opinions, reviews, how-to and many many more. Lemmy will take time to keep the pace and be filled with these types of content. And it might might take years to get to it (I really hope it will).
Deleting and nuking posts and comments are only distroy what we and the entire reddit community built over the years and it will be a huge loss for all of us.
If you ask me, the best way to say ‘fuck you’ to reddit, is keep all the old Content there, try to migrate as much as we can here and from now on build this content here. When/if Lemmy be mature enough we can go back and fuck everything up on reddit.
This is my 2 cents.
Maybe a happy medium is to take you best/most popular posts and repost it in here under a similar community, then edit your Reddit post to point to Lemmy for additional info…
I really really like this answer. I’ve been torn on rewriting my comments & deleting the account because I have some useful information, but I absolutely do NOT want reddit profiting from OUR knowledge and help for people anymore. It’s entire success is built on the people helping other people
Though for some things I’m torn on reposting to kbin because they haven’t been updated in a while or might not be accurate anymore
For example, I wrote a MASSIVE “returning / new player guide” for Vindictus, which is a very old MMO with a small community. It has been super helpful for a lot of people in the past, but as you know, MMOs update and change a lot so it’s definitely out of date, but not entirely. Even if I gave the raw message and all of it’s images to someone else to re-write the post, the community is so small and it would be hard to find someone who would even care. So it would be weird to just repost a partially outdated guide. Know what I mean?
Some other examples are niche within other games. So like for the game Control, I posted a guide on how to fix a bug for x thing. Or for Outriders, I posted a farming method for a resource or something
Do you have any advice for me?
Also, do you or does anyone else here know of a way that I can back up all of my comments and posts locally, like to a txt or some other text source?
Well I linked to one of my Lemmy posts from Reddit and a short while later (a few hours at most) I am no longer able to access that account. Not sure what kind of ban/restriction was put in place, I don’t think I was shadowbanned because I can still see my posts/comments.
Edit: I am able to log in via browser, just can’t use my preferred 3rd party app to login with that account anymore. Other accounts still work fine.
So if you are serious, I’d pick a few really good guides that are still relevant and maybe include a brief header in Lemmy explaining the reason for the re-post/content. Then work fast to edit those posts with the links, or else get creative with ways to obfuscate that you’re linking to Lemmy. You’ll probably just need something that would fool a bot doing a quick text search for anything linking to Lemmy directly. For now at least.
I have seen that there are ways to backup your comments/posts, but I don’t have any links to these tools off the top of my head. You’ll want to do it before API access is cut off though.
This is a much better answer.
Reddit’s only real value is the contribution of users. Reddit got so big because it had so many users posting their information. It will continue to be big so long as it’s the place where you can find answers to nearly anything.
Move the content, and you’ll move the value. That’s the only way most people will ever change what site they browse while pooping