• fcuks@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    just to add that i have read that your comments won’t be deleted/edited from blacked out subreddits, so maybe worthwhile to wait until the subreddits are back up (if they do come back!)

    I found this out after I deleted my account which is a little whoops as I can’t now log back in and finish the job haha.

  • HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    While I understand the intent of not wanting them to profit from existing work, I feel like deleting content removes a resource for everyone. It would be interesting if there was a tool that would export comments and allow the authors to repopulate them elsewhere so they can still be searched and referenced.

  • fizzym4d@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Shred-it bro

    Love this video, Shred it! Broooo

    In all seriousness though I probably won’t be deleting my stuff either. Less than a month ago someone replied to a message of mine that was years old and they said they found it when googling. I don’t want to ruin someone’s day when they try to find something to answer their questions.

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        1 year ago

        I’ve seen a few people suggest this, but wouldn’t it be pretty useless without the context of the rest of the original post?

        Like I could back up all of my comments and repost them here, but no one will know what they were in reply to unless I also backup and import the rest of the thread.

        (I’m not against that, but I also don’t know if there’d be legal issues?)

        • manitcor@lemmy.intai.techOP
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          1 year ago

          you should check if the stuff you care about is on the webarchive, if its not see if you can get it there.

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            1 year ago

            That’s a good point. I guess a solution to my issue could be to post a dump of saved/exported comments/posts but also link to archive.org for them.

            I’ve been using a self-hosted YacY instance lately too and have it set up to automatically index/cache rss feeds from my reddit upvotes/comments, so that kind of works too.