Also a lot of people remove all of their comments when quitting reddit. There are apps to do it, and thats what I did. So just from me there is over a thousand deleted comments to be encountered
When you delete a Reddit post or comment yourself, it says [deleted]. When it is removed by a subreddit mod, it says [removed] or if at the end of a comment chain, just doesn’t appear at all. Occasionally an admin removed comment will say [Removed by Reddit] instead of just [removed] but not always.
I’m happy to explain that, though it seems like farting in the wind now that we’re all gone, lol.
Shame I could do a better job of explaining it in three sentences than I have ever seen Reddit do anywhere, though.
Same here, it took hours but it was satisfying to do. Thankfully, I already semi-regularly did that so it was only a few hundred comments that needed to be pruned.
I’m guilty of this as a mod sometimes. When i remove a comment i don’t want to leave a hole in the thread, because then people will see replies to a deleted comment and wonder what they said; so i remove the replies as well, resulting in this.
It is, but its well worth it. What i found is that my comments from 2 or more years ago weren’t showing on my profile. So although my profile seems empty, I still have historic comments on the platform that I can’t get to unless I know every comment I made and where.
I honestly think the Reddit thing is over. Redditors are a little toxic and condescending. There may not be as much content on Lemmy but it sure feels peaceful.
Reddit notifications scare me, usually it’s a bot telling me I did something wrong or a human who wants to call me stupid and down vote my opinions. I stopped commenting because of this.
I am ashamed to admit it but I was happy to have my search resources back when the protest slowed down till I clicked on a few and found out people with my interests care about Reddits bs too, therewasn’t much left of many threads! 😂
I used web.archive.org to browse the Reddit communities during the blackout, I still actually use it in most cases because it helps both with subreddits that are still private, but also ones where people have deleted their threads.
It might not work with every single one, but it should work with the ones that appear in Google.
All it needs is a fuckton of awards next to one of the [removed] comments, so you know that what you missed was worth reading.
Fuck the major subs. I don’t miss that arbitrary shit at all. And may I just add, fuck AwkwardtheTurtle in particular: seeing them get eaten by their own antics was just -chef’s kiss-
They got on the wrong side of their admin buddies somehow, and the admins did what the admins always do: the leopards ate the face of the top-scoring face-eating leopard. Awkward then spent the next several days whining about it publicly in every forum they could think of, in the most nauseating way, like “this is what I get in return for liking the taste of your boot, how could you do this to me after all I’ve done for youuuuu” type posts, when the reality is that they’d spent the last decade being an actual fucking putz to average rule-abiding Redditors just for the fun of it.
The actual Reddit posts have all been modded away, of course, but there are some good non-Reddit overviews:
I never get tired of looking at it. Almost like when a former shitposting president got booted off Xitter: too little too late, but quite pleasant nonetheless.
Wow. I’ve seen then mentioned a few times on here before but never knew the background. I’m a particular fan of them claiming they made john oliver famous through the spam.
The cynic in me absolutely suspectes reddit kept them around just for the traffic they generated. But as soon as the protests started it seems to have been “not like this”.
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