• Apathy Tree@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    Mostly because some of what I shared was deeply personal anecdotes, and I didn’t want that information readily accessible as an aggregate to anyone who wanted to stalk my profile.

    Sure, all that shit was archived, and someone who really wanted to could see it, but it was just an extra layer of protection as a woman on the internet sharing personal things. Made it just that much harder to use myself against me.

    Rather than trying to figure out what to save or get rid of, I purged all of it manually.

    It also gave me an opportunity to review my comments and the context, in case there were ways I could improve how I approached things.

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      1 year ago

      Oh, yeah, makes sence in that case. Thought it was some other general information, like troubleshooting info.

      I can get behind stuff like this, sure, but not with stuff like I posted 😒. There was valuable info there that could’ve solved my problem in an instant, but I just had to go the long way around 😒.

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        1 year ago

        Some of it was troubleshooting stuff, some of it was helpful advice for setup and problem solving for a variety of things, and a ton of it was educational top-level comments that provided the whole context for the threads under them. I had some 500k karma on a 4 year old account, and 0 posts. Everything was purged regardless, because I felt like it.

        It’s not my job to retain information for the future, but you can look at an archive of it anyway if it really matters to read, so it’s not actually a huge loss in most cases. Just more work for you.

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            No, as a rule, but with a few exceptions. I have deleted maybe 10 comments and 1 post (and the post was sort of a test, it didn’t matter, I just wanted to see what happens when you get upvotes and delete the post - it was my kitten, and it sort of broke my post upvote count until I posted again, so useful information, same with comments, so idk how many I even have now).

            I’m leaving my comments intact here because the platform needs that, and I am absolutely a team player, but I have drastically changed the way I interact so that’s an ok thing for me.

            Eventually, when they get discovery sorted for small servers, I’ll make a secondary account on my own self-host server for more personal stuff, so I can have better control of my information. It just wasn’t something I bothered with on Reddit, I was a very small and largely insignificant part of Reddit.

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              Discovery is never gonna work on the fediverse. Info is too scattered. Sure, large servers will get discovered, but not smaller ones. They come and go, URLs change… it’s a mess.