• sunbeam60@lemmy.one
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    Reddit isn’t selling access to the public comments; it’s selling database access to all comments, previous edits, deleted ones, currently public ones etc.

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        They have the edit history. All you’re really doing is posting a big old flagpole on your comments that says “this account was previously run by a real human being” because bots wouldn’t have a reason to edit comments in protest. No matter what you protest-edit to you’re only making their job easier. The most effective way to “stick it” to reddit these days is to not interact with it whatsoever.

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    3 months ago

    There is nothing stopping you.

    Infact there are tools that will mass edit your comments.

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      If you think that anyone who cares hasn’t already scraped the content you’ll be wiping for the purposes of training one ML model or another, you’re kidding yourself.

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    Because they’ll probably just ban you for spam then revert all changes via backups I assume they most certainly have.

    That, or probably end up IP banning you for editing 2 comments because fuck you.