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Please don't zero out your account from over there if you've contributed answers or resources. (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by theoneandonlymd@lemmy.world to c/sysadmin@lemmy.world

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I'm fearful of people going redditZero and deleting their years-old accounts, as reddit has become a vast trove of information for a vast number of systems. If I go dark and delete, it won't be everything. Memes and regular conversations may go, but I'll be sure to leave every technical response I've ever given (or even edit it if I have since learned more precise information). It feels like so many are ready to cut off their nose to spite their face. The community we had was built by us collectively and enriched by the content we shared. I feel like despite reddit literally doing everything wrong, by deleting our collective wisdom, we aren't hurting reddit as much as we're hurting our own community of sysadmins.

Please consider that we are facing a Wisdom of the Ancients situation here, and I sure as shit know that I don't want to be the one on the other end of seeing "deleted", then "Thanks that worked!" in my future.

Just food for thought.

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[–] lazynooblet@lazysoci.al 1 points 1 year ago

Don't worry, Reddit are restoring comments and posts anyway.

[–] j4k3@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

The data should be scraped and on Archive.org. I copied my posts and references, to share here.

Reddit will get my CCPA delete notice. Reddit is a failed experiment just like GeoCities, Yahoo, MySpace, Windows, Facebook, and Google. I don't want or need them. The data I shared on these platforms is irrelevant because I am here. Ask away. I am the value, not them.

[–] shertson@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I initially agreed with you. I'd hate to see all of that communal knowledge lost.

Reading the other replies, I am not so sure. Do they deserve to continue capitalizing on other peoples knowledge? Yes and No. They did supply a service without which that collection would have had to be assembled somewhere else. But I don't think they should be able to capitalize on it forever.

With the archive team and their efforts, I am less worried about "Wisdom of the Ancients" situation.

[–] LimePengiun@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

I don’t care about Reddit; they are just going to profit from our data. Delete your posts if you want to. The collective knowledge/wisdom is within the community and if we all move to Lemmy, that knowledge comes with us.