Everything is archived by ArchiveTeam. The only worry should be reinstating it as an online searchable archive, which will probably happen too.
If you deleted your Reddit account, your content is disassociated and it stays behind, unless you used a tool like PowerDeleteSuite to automate replacing comment text and then deleting.
PDS will stop working in less than 3 hours from now, because Data API restrictions will start on June 19 2023 0000 hrs. I purged all my history outside of the subreddit I created, privatelife, and modcoord.
Most of it has its roots in xenophobia and crushing the "near-peer competitors", yes. You can ask US government about Cold War McCarthyist propaganda which is spread by NATO (US/Europe) media. You can even go back as far as 1940 to find a short film series Drums of Fu Manchu (check YouTube), which is before NATO's creation, or the Opium War I by Britain in 1856 and British Raj on India for 2 centuries.
Orientalism, xenophobia and imperialist looting/plundering against East are historically well known evil deeds of Westerners.
Whenever there is fearmongering about China/Russia/communism, assume it is funny McCarthyist Cold War propaganda. No matter how small or big the claim is, use that thumb rule to avoid brainwashing.
Tencent's investment is peanuts. Here is a full breakdown of Reddit's investors. https://lemmy.ml/comment/750332
Far, far less ridiculous than "Chinese government controlled", as there is real proof of US military astroturfers, as shown above, and Reddit even suppresses this information intentionally. The whole of frontpage is suspiciously filled with pro-US imperialist propaganda and an anti-China/Russia article every week with dozens of awards.
Read the below response. https://lemmy.ml/comment/750332
Condé Nast and one American VC hold more shares than Tencent, plus Reddit is astroturfed by US military, as seen during 2015. https://old.reddit.com/r/Blackout2015/comments/4ylml3/reddit_has_removed_their_blog_post_identifying/
The root of “Tencent CCP own Reddit” conspiracy literally lies in r/conspiracy to spread xenophobic sentiments against China. Anyone perpetuating this nonsense will face a ban after this.
5% stake is not relevant if you looked at other shareholders of Reddit. It is a xenophobic conspiracy theory if we looked at the largest shareholders of Reddit (https://web.archive.org/web/20230108005443/https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/who-owns-reddit-a-breakdown-of-the-type-and-nationality-of-shareholders/):
Breakdown of Series A VC, Condé Nast: https://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/03/business/media/reddit-thrives-after-advance-publications-let-it-sink-or-swim.html
Breakdown of Series B VCs being all Americans: https://www.crunchbase.com/funding_round/reddit-series-b--662ba273
Breakdown of Series C VCs being 8 Americans and 1 Dubai VC: https://www.crunchbase.com/funding_round/reddit-series-c--168f04d0
Breakdown of Series D VCs with 3 American VCs and China's Tencent: https://www.crunchbase.com/funding_round/reddit-series-d--c9282e50
Condé Nast and one American VC hold more shares than Tencent, plus Reddit is astroturfed by US military, as seen during 2015. https://old.reddit.com/r/Blackout2015/comments/4ylml3/reddit_has_removed_their_blog_post_identifying/ Reddit, if anything, is a literal US military arm to spread propaganda in media, and not controlled by Chinese government.
The root of "Tencent CCP own Reddit" conspiracy literally lies in r/conspiracy to spread xenophobic sentiments against China. Anyone perpetuating this nonsense will face a ban after this.
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