• Hot Saucerman
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    11 months ago

    I wish informative answers like yours would get the upvotes they deserve. You have my upvote.

    EDIT: Okay yeah, several hours later now it’s heavily upvoted. Thanks Lemmings, for giving me faith in comments sections again.

    • Clairvoidance
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      11 months ago

      Well they did essentially just type it but I agree with the sentiment

    • @pingveno
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      Thanks! And it is getting upvotes, with you being the first. After all, I only wrote it a few minutes ago.

      I’m not scrubbing my account on Reddit partially because some of the comments are like the one above. Sure, much of what I wrote is of limited value. But if there is a historian going back through Internet history and using a language processing model to analyze comments, I think my voice is worth leaving there.

      • Hot Saucerman
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        211 months ago

        Indeed, I’ve been very ambivalent about the idea of everyone deleting all their histories to hurt reddit.

        Sure, it hurts reddit in the short-term, but in the long-term it is hurting overall internet history.

        • @pingveno
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          411 months ago

          Honestly, I don’t think it does much of anything to Reddit, short or long term. It does far more to destroy Internet history.

          • @yjk@lemmy.ca
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            411 months ago

            Depending on when you posted your comments, I’d assume most of it is already archived somewhere. Even if that’s not true, having the comments in a walled garden (that is actively trying to become more walled) is not going to help internet history, especially with the API becoming paid.