… go through your ‘top posts’, copy & paste the text into a doc, post it here, then delete it. Let reddit’s loss be lemmy’s gain!

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    I’d rather people not delete their content at all, tbh. Imagine all of the Google searches that would be borked by it.

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      Let’s be honest, google search has been turning to crap for a long time. I would appreciate google search being destroyed to the point a new player comes along or they get their search back to 2000-2005 quality.

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        Thought I was going slowly mad, good to have confirmation that it’s not just me who thinks google search has gone to complete shit. I can’t remember the last time a “-” modifier actually worked.

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          Once search switched to boxing people in based off what they and other people search for, it really went downhill, and then they started directing search more and more towards add revenue. Then they removed Boolean followed by continuing to make it suck. Then they removed their company pledge to not be evil.

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        Losing reddit search results would actually reduce the quality of all the competitors too.

        Except for AI models that have already been trained on the data before it was deleted. So if all the useful information on reddit is deleted, we’ll essentially make ChatGPT the only search engine that actually does anything.

        Just hopping from one near-monopoly to another at that point.

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      It would be neat if there would be a script that would:

      1. Crawl through your top Reddit posts
      2. Copy the content and make an identical post on Lemmy
      3. Overwrite the post on Reddit with a link to the Lemmy post
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        That’s definitely possible, the API of both Reddit and Lemmy are developed enough for it. It would just be a case of someone taking the time to sit down and make it.

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          I think the biggest hurdle might be the fact that not every subreddit as an equivalent Lemmy community.

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      Imagine all of the Google searches that would be borked by it.

      I’m only hearing positives here. The quality of Google’s search results have been going downhill. This might be the kick in the ass they need.

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      Definitely a valid concern, that. Ultimately we all need to do what we feel is right for us, the thought of reddit profitting from the content produced by their users even after they’ve left really rankles me though. It’s unfair (though that’s life, I guess).