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[–] 133 points 1 week ago (42 children)

When I stopped using reddit a few years ago, I left my account intact because I had 18 years of posts that included a lot of tech help and other useful information that I figured people might stumble across.

Last night, I used Redact to scramble all 5,521 comments.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 week ago* (5 children)

    Scrambling is easy detect. But if you edit the posts slightly to be wrong and useless, that is much harder to restore if you do it slowly (if you do it in batch they can easily see that all edits happened close to eachother. If it looks natural then they would need to start being paranoid about all edits).

    I'm not sure how good something like this would be to do in big picture, but as its evident they are going to gatekeep ALL information at somepoint, they should be denied to it.

    There should be a volunteer group you could give your reddit account to that would do as much damage to spezs shitty site as possible with it.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 days ago (1 child)

    This is the dumbest shit. I'm doing home reno stuff constantly and we live in a world where everyone looks up info online constantly. Sometimes I need to reference an old reddit thread or whatever. It's usually better than whatever garbage Google AI spits out at you by default.

    Sure just guide people to doing stuff wrong. I'm so glad a few decades ago we invented this amazing source of knowledge and information and communication that is easily accessible for the first time in human history and yeah let's just purposefully fuck it up.

    Seriously, it is a huge pain in the ass exploring a niche subject and you get some scrambled comment because "reddit bad".

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