It’s not like these old users were not fighting to protect your freedom of speech, by creating an open-source federated social network or anything. Yet you use that same freedom of speech they enabled for you against them on the same platform they created. Everyone here will fight for your right to do so, btw, but I just wanted to point that out.
https://github.com/leeola/PowerDeleteSuite
Here you go. There are others, but I used this one.
I have. Found a tool on Github that edited and deleted every comment or post I did and then deleted the account. So, the nuclear option. My account may not have had much contributions, but it was an honest account of 5 years.
I have to say, knowing we are humans talking to each other and not bots astro turfing everything, feels nice. Hopefully it lasts.
And random replies! Discussions are what makes a social media, social. :)
Personally, whatever revenue they make up in ads, they should instead ask for it in subscriptions. That would remove the incentive to promote engagement via whatever means necessary (resulting in hatred promotion and false catchy titles, to the detriment of the user), and weed out spammers. Of course, if they do that, user count will plummet. But I really don’t like what they are doing now.
Me thinks open source is the future.
Life is full of cycles. Every beginning has an end. And we are currently in a new beginning.
Years ago I would be heartbroken. So many good communities lost. So many posts erased. But this is for the better, I think. This time, let’s rebuild those same communities stronger, and better.
Open-source is the future, and I’m willing to invest my time on it.
Comrade, this individual clearly has a humiliation fetish. I’m not one to kink shame, but if you’re going to engage with this master baiter, wouldn’t it be better if you take it to the DMs?
It’s like that saying, if you fight with a pig in the mud, he will enjoy it. Anyway, not trying to kink shame. He is clearly enjoying it, though.