I understand the sentiment, and everyone of course has the right to do this with the content they posted, but please consider:

The only thing this probably achieves is fucking over people googling for specific information in the future. How often have I searched for some really specific problem or information, only to find a thread in some niche subreddit from years ago with exactly what I needed?

For Reddit itself it’s trivial to keep previous versions of comments. Also deleted posts can just be flagged as ‘hidden’ and still remain in the database. They already have your content and won’t be giving it up. So please consider leaving it available for the public as well.

That’s a good idea! I understand the sentiment of leaving a final “fuck you” to Reddit, but at the same time the thought of losing the treasure trove of accumulated knowledge stored there pains me.

I was thinking of something like that too, but probably never would’ve gotten around to implement it myself, so thanks! Could you put your script on Github or something maybe?

Also it would be great if it could copy at least top-level comments by OP, because that’s often used for linking to a source.

That’s how I interpret the post pinned to their front page asking users to go somewhere else: https://lemmy.ml/post/1147770

I don’t think lemmy.ml is accepting new users currently. Choose another instance (server) from the recommended ones at https://join-lemmy.org/instances

It doesn’t really matter much which one, you will still be able to interact with communities across different instances.

They are separate. Think of community names like email addresses: [email protected] is different from [email protected]

Similarly, [email protected] is different from [email protected]

I’m commenting here from another instance (feddit.de) where I’m logged in and this community is available at https://feddit.de/c/[email protected]

Similarly, you can just access communities from other instances here, e.g. https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]

I have the impression that the federation thing as a whole still has some issues. Like I checked some of my submissions on different instances and it would sometimes show different comment counts, but the comment which would explain the difference was nowhere to be seen. So it wouldn’t surprise me if vote (non-)propagation also doesn’t always work as intended.

I read that they just ignore incoming downvotes, so on Beehaw you’d never see them, only locally on the instance where you voted.