Remains to see if this actually can happen.

"We didn't license it to them for the express purpose of training your model on this data, we only gave them database access for the express purpose of training their model on this data."

Uh, what? Wikipedia dates the first bullet to the 13th century:

> Fire lance barrels made of metal appeared by 1276.[30] Earlier in 1259 a pellet wad that filled the barrel was recorded to have been used as a fire lance projectile, making it the first recorded bullet in history

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun#Transition_to_true_guns

Later move to shreddit and created a cronjob to delete the entries, and kept shreddit running a week or so. As you suggested, you will hit Reddit's rate limit soon after start mass deleting or your account shadow-banned.

Just checked two of my deleted account, can't see any post or comment. I wish I didn't delete it, just overwrite them with random sentences from local AI

There is no conspiracy to restore deleted comments lol. You can only retrieve 1000 items with Reddit's API so when you use Shreddit to delete your posts only 1000 are deleted. Everything else before that remains untouched. Use PullPush to really delete everything.

Reddit is still one of the few sites left that provide user content openly. FB+Instagram+Twitter are entirely inaccessible if you don't have an account, and a lot of forums do things like only show images to logged in users.

I've found the Reddit experience much worse with recent changes. When you land on Reddit from a Google search comment threads are only 1 level deep with a max of only a few replies shown, so you have to load a new page for each response you want to read. It's one of the worst UX I've seen considering that landing from search is probably the most financially lucrative use patterns Reddit has.

They were tricked from day one, when the founders pretended to be different people to make the site look busier than it really was.

They are tricked every day by bots, troll farms, spammers, astroturfers, bought-out moderators, corrupt admins, etc.

Go look at the founders page, where Aaron Swartz used to be.

Look into who maxwellhill probably was (first Redditor to a million karma and mod of some huge and deranged subs like worldnews).

Look into how certain keywords get shadowbanned.

Look into the mod and admin cabals with their private agendas.

Look into the way many national subs were taken over in quiet coups.

There are nice things about Reddit, even today, but the idea that users know what they're getting into is deeply naive.

How many Reddit users knew they were agreeing in the future for Reddit to sell the content they wrote to make money for Reddit, not them?

> no redditor expects to see a dime when they participate on the site and the site makes money form it.

Plenty of Redditors would disagree with you, and I'm not sure why you're acting like this is obvious. If I hadn't already deleted all my content and left because of the last debacle, I would be doing so for this.

The deal never included that they would appropriating the community content and selling it as their own, but that could try to make money from user-generated content, and in turn they would keep it as open as possible: an easy to use API, third-party clients, RSS feeds for every subreddit and even posts and comments, etc.

They changed the deal. People are right to be upset with the new terms.

I'm not sure why folks are trying to say that going to Reddit and doing activity where the price of admission is ads is the same as doing activity where the price of admission is they own your writing and sell it. You may be fine with it but they seem clearly distinct to me -- enough to be worth talking about instead of dismissing.