yeah I left reddit completely and moved to lemmy. but search results still show reddit threads sometimes. so that particular thing is malicious to everyone and has very little to do with reddit.

its just shitty. a much better way to do it would be to edit the comment with an addendum to say how crap reddit is and there are alternatives with a link.

don't punish normal people who are desperate to find a solution to something.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Leaving your comments up contributes value to Reddit. Value you provided them before they fucked you. Much of Reddit's value is a giant repository of user-generated information, which they've turned around and monetized to enrich themselves. If you take them down, people will just have to find that information elsewhere. It sucks that they're no longer available for the public, but that's on Reddit, not the user who removed their comments.

You can repost all your valuable comments and solutions here and drive traffic to Lemmy instead.