I'm not abandoning my Awesome WM setup anytime soon personally. But I thought it's worth sharing this perspective from someone who knows this stuff much better than me.
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.
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!
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".
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.
I'm not abandoning my Awesome WM setup anytime soon personally. But I thought it's worth sharing this perspective from someone who knows this stuff much better than me.