Great, juuuust great 😒

Be mad at Reddit for fucking shit up. Also, since ChatGPT has this information since it likely scraped reddit before the purge you can ask it in an extremely detailed prompt and you might get it. Works for me like 7/9 times.

Or, and hear me out here…

Maybe this person deleted their content for some other reason. It happens all the time, I’ve come across gobs and gobs of deleted comments and that was well before the protests.

Sure more people deleted stuff because of the protests, but tons of people did so either way. I was one of them. My comments never stayed live for more than a week or two.

I know what you're saying, but protest is supposed to be disruptive, so yeah. Reddit's only a host for that information, it's the right of the person to rip that comment off the internet, nothing idiotic about it. Giving Reddit the information to monetize while quitting is like paying the shop that rip you off while stomping out the store.

Do ask the question here though, maybe someone else can help.

If someone is against how a website operates, why would they continue to freely contribute things that would give profits to that website? People found out random specific information before reddit, and people will still be able to find that information after reddit.

Personally, I look at it as I'm grateful that people freely share such information in the first place. When information is this available to find (we have almost the entire internet's worth of resources), I'm not going to complain that I can't find it on one website.

Having attitudes like the one in this post can discourage people from sharing these things in the first place. No one wants to feel obligated to change their personal accounts to suit the liking of complete strangers, especially after they're ready to move on. No one will want to be helpful if it just leads to complaints and grievances. Life's just too short to deal with that noise, frankly.

Some of these posts are almost implying that an individual person providing valuable information for free for multiple years isn't enough anymore. It implies that your own morals and wants don't matter anymore, if someone else has to look a little longer to find something.

I'm sorry, I'm just sick of all the complaining and the expectations being placed on complete strangers to likely go against their own morals. Just use other websites, or create your own community. No one is beholden to go against their own morals just because it makes searching easier. That is not a great thing to expect of others.

I totally agree with you. The protests were fine, but "hur dur delete my account and everything on it so noone can ever see it again" was a fucking stupid idea when you're protesting for the freedom of the internet.

Dude you want the Reddit protests to work but also that they don't affect anyone? That's literally the opposite of a protest. The important thing for a protest is to show how much someone depends on something to level the playing field for negotiations.

These are the exact things that make the protest effective. You admitted it yourself: because of this action, you had to find your information somewhere else. Isn't that the point of the protest? Driving people away from Reddit to show the admins how critical their userbase is to their success?

I mean I get why you're mad, but if you are pissed at spez and where Reddit is heading too, this is the wrong thing to be mad about.

Rather be mad the Reddit holds such a monopoly on this kind of knowledge that you can't find it almost anywhere else.

Well here’s the thing. Mr. Huffman, Reddit CEO, thinks that he and his board of executives owns the content in the screenshot and all other posts on Reddit. He’s even gone out of his way to let it be known that this belongs to him, and it’s his to profit from any way he damn well pleases.

Why the hell should the guy who deleted his comment give away his hard earned knowledge to benefit Steve, who clearly has shown he thinks the rest of us are just ants in his anthill of capitalistic endeavors.

https://archive.org/details/pushshift-reddit-2023-03

If op wanted the information it can likely still be found.