It was one of those few 3rd party Apps that still worked. Apparently dev was in talks with Reddit in obtaining Paid-API-Access, but now they cut off his API-Access mid talks without informing him

  • ryno364@lemmy.world
    1621·
    1 year ago

    Also for the fact that they lie through their teeth and can’t even give the decency of honest business.

    Why the fuck would we trust these idiots with our data/hard work?

    • Brudder Aaron@lemmy.world
      50·
      1 year ago

      Which is why people should scrub their comments. A lot of people are holding on to “The good times.” with their posts and comments. It doesn’t matter if reddit can technically undo the work, I’m still going to check and make sure it stays gone. Without that content, reddit is nothing.

      • DigitalAudio@sopuli.xyz
        22·
        1 year ago

        To be honest, I respect that position, but I don’t hold enough contempt against them to do that, and on the other hand I do value Reddit as an archive of online knowledge and debate. I can just leave it if I don’t want it in my life anymore. I would like any comments I made on specific topics I’m knowledgeable about to be accessible and used as reference in the future.

        • circuscritic@lemmy.ca
          41·
          1 year ago

          You can request your data in a simple form submission and the ndownload it, all in .csv and other text formats. The request takes about a week.

          Afterwards, use Violentmonkey or another script manager to overwrite and delete all your comments.

          I’ve already done it on an account that was over a decade old, no regrets.

          • DigitalAudio@sopuli.xyz
            41·
            1 year ago

            But that’s not the point. I’m not saying I’m super important, but I believe I have helped several people with technical or academic questions on Reddit before, and anyone looking that up could access my comments and they might help other people in the future.

            I don’t hate Reddit as a corporation enough to erase what might be useful to someone else in the future, and they can profit off of it if they want, since I didn’t make those comments with my profit in mind anyway.

            I understand wanting to erase your data from Reddit, and I realize it’s also a responsible decision, but I personally don’t like the idea of wiping clean one of the greatest hubs of information in the entire internet, even if I disagree with their corporate practices.

        • EricKendrick@feddit.uk
          33·
          1 year ago

          I’m sure there are places like the internet archive who have copies, your stuff isn’t gone if you delete it.

          Reddit is like the ex who cheated on you, that person isn’t the person you knew. Now you can leave behind your stuff at their place, but why would you? You are rewarding them by gifting your stuff, making them more respectable and credible, than you know they really are.

          People say move on. Move on, and take your stuff with you.

      • dns@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 year ago

        How long before they claim that’s against some of the ToS and restore the comments I wonder?