average tech thread
@puppygirlhornypost2 This isn't even an exaggeration in the slightest.
@puppygirlhornypost2 This really is a thing on Reddit. I wonder why even though I've had more than two active accounts on there over the years and all my posts are gone, too. There's an easy to find option to delete your account and it pretty much asks you whether you want all your posts deleted. Maybe that's the simple answer to why this happens so much on Reddit.
@steeph @puppygirlhornypost2 When all that stuff relating to app APIs and such happened (the death of the Apollo iOS app as an example), a lot of users went through and deleted all their posts. Some of them even have a “blah blah Reddit is shit and I’ve deleted my posts” message on them.
@aidan @steeph @puppygirlhornypost2 This was an issue even before that & the LLM scraping stuff.
@jackemled @steeph @puppygirlhornypost2 True, but said situations have accelerated that a fair bit more
@puppygirlhornypost2 That or a bunch of unhelpful "just Google it" posts when search engines just send you to that thread and others that also say to "just Google it."
God forbid you are new to something and ask for help and people decide to treat you like garbage being passive aggressive over asking a question 🤡
@puppygirlhornypost2 i ran a greasemonkey script to delete all my posts before deleting my reddit account ​

fuck that cesspit

@puppygirlhornypost2 what reddit did with the API changes is probably the biggest tragedy for being able to find anything on the modern web

I used to (and still do sometimes) add site:reddit.com to a lot of queries to find actual information that's not AISEOlop, and now that's a lot more annoying

at least doing site:forums.servethehome.com is still a good way of finding some obscure technical information, and I wish there were more actual forums for weird stuff like this

At the very least old.reddit is so loadbearing they can't remove it.
@orpach.neocities.org it's more so that people mass deleted their stuff after reddit did that, so now there's a massive black hole of lost knowledge that was once there
@puppygirlhornypost2 (remember when I had to look for exotic computing langages' infos (as such delightfully *well* designed as VBA for Access), it was a lot of FUN)