<story><title>Shreddit is a Python program to remove all your Reddit comments</title><url>https://github.com/x89/Shreddit</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CoastalCoder</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m trying to understand various activist goals regarding Reddit.  Is it some combination of the following?&lt;p&gt;(a) Burn down Reddit, as vengeance for their behavior in recent years.&lt;p&gt;(b) Burn down Reddit, to lay the groundwork for a more user-friendly alternative.&lt;p&gt;(c) Temporarily apply pressure on Reddit, especially regarding their planned IPO, as a rebuke so they become more user-friendly.&lt;p&gt;(d) some thing else, and&amp;#x2F;or some combination of the above</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>the_pwner224</author><text>For deleting posts&amp;#x2F;comments:&lt;p&gt;Reddit exists because we give it content. We&amp;#x27;re the ones bringing value to Reddit. Like any social media, it wouldn&amp;#x27;t exist without us, the users. Reddit also provides a valuable service as being the host. Reddit is entitled to make some profit off of that.&lt;p&gt;We contribute content to Reddit for free. Reddit acts as a good host, connects us users together, and makes some money for their work.&lt;p&gt;But they&amp;#x27;ve been growing increasingly user hostile and greedy. I&amp;#x27;m not going to give you free content if you&amp;#x27;re super hostile to me and other users. Hosting Reddit isn&amp;#x27;t &lt;i&gt;that&lt;/i&gt; expensive, afaik they were already making a profit back when you could buy gold to fund server time? But if you&amp;#x27;re going all in on ads and maximizing profit, at the cost of my user experience... either you give me a cut of that, or I&amp;#x27;m going to leave and take my content away with me. I don&amp;#x27;t want you maliciously profiting off of my content which I spent my time creating.</text></comment>
<story><title>Shreddit is a Python program to remove all your Reddit comments</title><url>https://github.com/x89/Shreddit</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CoastalCoder</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m trying to understand various activist goals regarding Reddit.  Is it some combination of the following?&lt;p&gt;(a) Burn down Reddit, as vengeance for their behavior in recent years.&lt;p&gt;(b) Burn down Reddit, to lay the groundwork for a more user-friendly alternative.&lt;p&gt;(c) Temporarily apply pressure on Reddit, especially regarding their planned IPO, as a rebuke so they become more user-friendly.&lt;p&gt;(d) some thing else, and&amp;#x2F;or some combination of the above</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brk</author><text>I think in general there is a lot of anger or frustration around the fact that Reddit&amp;#x27;s primary trove of value is content that has been created, posted, and moderated for free by their community. Despite this, Reddit trends more and more user hostile every year, with rules, redesigns, and other limitations that often come across as attempting to punish or hinder the very group that is the core of their value. While I doubt the majority of the user base takes issue with Reddit wanting to be profitable, the potential IPO is coming across very much as a rug pull of sorts to those users.</text></comment>