Today, not in a moment of necessity, but a moment of protest, I logged in to Reddit because I found tons of comments and posts listed on old Reddit when you sort by top or controversial.

I logged in to Reddit to destroy even more of my comments that were missed by Power Delete Suite.

It seems a lot of people are doing this. I’ve seen some interesting stuff here and Reddit with screenshots of deleted comments with “this solved my problem” below the deletion.

The way I look at it, ALL of my content was posted via Apollo, just like all of my comments and posts are through WefWef here. If Reddit admins felt the API shouldn’t be free, then my submissions are also not free for them to monetize and get traffic from.

I know for a fact I’ve had 100+ #1 ranked longtail SEO posts in Reddit before I deleted everything. Many of them were getting tons of traffic based on the amount of follow-up private messages received years later.

I do expect Reddit’s traffic to go down as a whole because of everyone leaving but also because of how many removed their content.

That IPO of theirs is going so well.

  • @[email protected]
    26•1 year ago

    Will Google searches eventually link to lemmy? I don’t really know how this site works, but I would assume that could grow the site more than anything else would.

      • Ben
        6•1 year ago

        Now you just have to start weaning yourself off Google - it’s more evil than Reddit.

    • @[email protected]
      -10•1 year ago

      i really doubt it. there is not much impact on reddit and the protest showed that, before 3p apps shut down.

      • @[email protected]
        7•1 year ago

        That’s an interesting perspective, but I’m not really asking about Reddit. I’m wondering about how Lemmy can grow on its own

        • Ben
          4•1 year ago

          My opinion is that, rather than thinking it can instantly aggregate the web, it would be the best solution for anyone wanting to get a group of people with common interests together in a relatively safe place.

        • @[email protected]
          0•1 year ago

          thats true, i kind of taken your comment out of context. i just assume thats the general conversation.

      • Karyoplasma
        1•1 year ago

        For you as a personal user, the protest might have been an inconvenience at most, but I don’t know about the impact it had on potential investors. Think about it this way: would you invest in a new IPO when their users, who provide all of the content and moderation, are willing to subvert the whole premise of the company? I surely fucking wouldn’t.