Neither the person who contacted you was a real user of that instance, nor their “concern” was legitimate.

Congrats. You got successfully manipulated. And opened yourself up for further future manipulations.

Well, that’s my unpopular opinion 😉

Unlike content in let’s say Facebook, there is a wealth of knowledge in Reddit that is indexed by search engines, covering a plethora of topics. Removing that knowledge will hurt people searching for that info, while hardly affecting Reddit. Erasing all traces of that content removes the opportunity to tell Redditors and visitors alike about what Reddit had done, and where the authors of that useful content had moved.

I already argued this in OP.

Yes, that was one of my proposals in OP, to append info about moving to Lemmy at the end of comments, but without removing their original content.

I didn’t and wouldn’t be using the word protest btw, because we are supposedly past that now! We are done with Reddit for good, supposedly! We just want people to know where we moved!

And how will people know that there was a protest, and more relevantly, that anything of value has been lost?

More like success exceeded my expectations.

that means I cannot redirect anyone here by any means.

Forgot to mention, as I already alluded to, you can submit a post to your profile mentioning your full/partial move to Lemmy/kbin. Then in the post page trigger “make announcement” and “pin to profile”.

hostscitcis

Is this a word?

Yeah, I personally don’t care about images.

I don’t want to make assumptions about what kind of images you post, but I actively block all meme/humor communities anyway.

Images are not text-searchable anyway.

So, all in all, for me, deleting image posts is not that big of a deal.

Thanking for taking the time to read the post and engaging meaningfully.

The perceived condescension was a deliberate addition by my humble self to make sure this post will be suitable for this community, which may not have been necessary after all.

I managed to post something actually unpopular here, and for that at least, I’m glad.

While I don’t agree with you, I must thank you for trying engage logically with the arguments presented.

I think what people miss is the big picture: critical masses, growth momenta, hype cycles… etc.

If Reddit is on its way down, it will be on its way down. It will be a question of who will benefit the most.