• pingveno
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    2 years ago

    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.

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      2 years 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.

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        2 years 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.

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          2 years 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.