I just ran Power Delete Suite on all of my comments and self posts, stating they have been removed in protest.
On July 1st, I am deleting every comment and post, then closing my account. Reddit was fun while it lasted.
The fediverse is still raw, but I see massive protentional here, and I am ready for this journey with all of you.
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It’s crazy isn’t it? Six months in and Mastodon still hasn’t clicked for me, but six days here and I know I’m not going back to Reddit.
“The future is now old man!”
Same boat. But Twitter wasn’t really my kind of social media anyway, maybe that’s why Mastodon hasn’t locked in?
It’s the voting system that does it imo. When everyone just shouts random thoughts into the void hoping it goes viral the overall quality tends to be low. It makes for a decent RSS feed, but so do RSS feeds.
twitter is way more useful for following people or groups for news/updates than posting comments and forming communities
like a secondary social media platform you can link elsewhere
Yeah it took me a couple of tries before I got Twitter, so I’ve been sticking with Mastodon so far. This might well be what I was looking for all along though.
Twitter’s only purpose is for blue checkmarks to scream into the void, but why do that when you can watch more fun versions of blue checkmarks shitpost on Lemmy instead?
Yeah, I never had a Twitter, and when I tried mastodon I got visually assaulted by a full screen picture of a wang, so I’m good here.
My sentiments exactly! It feels like Lemmy is exploding. But like, a good explosion.
Same here. Mastodon is nice, but never felt as good as Lemmy for me. Additionally the content here is much more interesting for me.
Does mastodon have anything else going on besides Twitter type stuff?
I wouldn’t delete your account (in case Reddit tries to replace the deleted comments as they have been doing). But I would unsubscribe from every subreddit.
Additionally, if you have any very useful comments/posts, repost them to Lemmy and then edit them to leave some information that will redirect users to your posts in Lemmy. That way good information isn’t lost and you’ll help to slowly drive users towards Lemmy over time.
You need to tell this to more people since they shouldn’t destroy valuable information.
all my comments were on removed subs so i dont think theyre all that valuable
I’ve been replacing my posts with gibberish (google “gibberish generator”) and a link to lemmy.
Be aware that /r/AskReddit has some automation that will delete your post if they detect some script. I don’t know how it works, but so far the trigger for me seems to be any link to the /r/apolloapp post where Christian posts his call logs.
Do you have evidence of reddit replacing comments?
Thanks for pointing out that there may be more to this, I dug into it a bit more. A few users reported that their comments/posts were being restored:
@shindig1457@lemmy.world https://lemmy.ml/post/1290893
@Beardliest@lemmy.world https://lemmy.ml/comment/690447
It looks like it could be related to issues with Powerdelete, or else issues with being able to delete comments while a sub is/was set to private. https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/34112/Updated-Reddit-is-quietly-restoring-deleted-AND-overwritten-posts-and
However, there is also a user that reported that their manually deleted posts came back @sukarn@mstdn.social https://mstdn.social/@sukarn/110553511800817413 Which could be related to Reddit performing maintenance on the servers.
Either way it’s probably worth it to hold onto your account for a while longer to verify that there weren’t any issues with your posts/comments being deleted.
Thanks for that :)
this makes my little archivist heart sad tbh. fuck spez.
You can check this out https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-download-your-reddit-data/
As a newbie data hoarder the Reddit exodus has felt like my first real trail for making a personal archive of content I wanna go back to. Ran a scraper on a few of my top subs right before the blackout on top of cherry picking posts I regularlly returned to for information.
Overall think I’m pretty set for never returning to that place.
https://lemm.ee/comment/251639 how to download your Reddit data in a better way
I’ve done a data request with Reddit and will probably attempt to use a script to download my entire history (plus context, if possible) before July 1, then I’ll see about overwriting the comments.
For that reason, I’m leaving mine up. Some might be useless, sure. But others I put some effort in. They’re a little piece of Internet history, and I’m loath to set fire to that. I can still move to another platform while leaving my account intact.
You might want to hold off on the deletion part… After the comments about “reddit is restoring posts”, I logged back in and saw my entire history had been restored after 24 hours. That includes messages I deleted years ago.
So, went through and re-ran power delete suite again. Next day, there were a few back.
Going the lather-rinse-repeat route with wiping them. I figure if they want to burn CPU cycles recovering my stuff, I can burn their CPU cycles deleting it again. At some point I’ll see about sending them a support request to remove all of my data if it keeps occurring.
Something to keep in mind - any comments you made in subs that went private were not affected by PDS, because they were made private with the rest of the sub.
This is oddly exciting, like being a child again. I hope it grows into something great. Hello from kbin!
Someone posted 14 year old reddit thread by digg refugees, and it looked very similar to what’s happening here lol. Hopefully the community keeps growing and improving
Should hold off on deleted your account for the time being. Many subs are polling users on which direction to take and I’ve been messaging mods with short comments to move to lemmy.
I’ve already started moving over to lemmy but I’m also seeing some weird stuff on my Reddit account. I’ve had more ‘Followers’ sign on to my account in the last 2 weeks than I’ve seen in the last 3-4 years. I don’t believe these are real followers. What would be the reason for this? Is Reddit playing some sort of statistics game with long-time Reddit accounts?
Those are just bots, fake girls
They’re spam-bots that will either link you to a NSFW page or try to scam you in some other way
Probably trying to get you to stay because you have “fans” now.
I feel the fresh air of a new internet breeding <3
better do it earlier, if you’re late PowerDeleteSuite might not work
Removed by mod
Thinking about doing the same to my acc with 250k+ karma.
It is accounts like ours that hurt when they leave. Accounts that have been producing OC content for years and just not consuming posts. My karma is 50/50 posts and comments.
Be sure and delete your posts/comments on your way out, no reason to leave behind free content.
I have over 13k. My bot is keeping my comment list at 15 max and I’m not posting content. Been trying out kbin instead.
I’m hanging around until the end of June, but once Apollo is dark, I’m gone.Fyi accounts like yours can fetch above $200 on some sites. Sure they’ll be used to advertise and spam but is that really your problem now?
I have several accounts I’d like to see about selling. Where do I go exactly?
I’ve found playerup to be a site that has a board for selling.
10 years and 180,000 karma. I nuked all of my comments and all but a couple of my posts.
However, I have seen that some of my comments are still there on posts despite not showing up in my comment history.
i have this exact same thing happening. Comments are deleted from my comment history but when going to the post that contains the comments they still show up. Can this be because of some form of caching going on?
Yeah, reddit does that. Kinda shady tbh. That’s why it’s recommended to use a script to scramble all old comments before deleting them
I had two accounts, one 8 years old and one 4 years old, with a combined karma of about 120k. Deleted them both earlier.
The mass exodus of Twitter and Reddit is like the burning of Alexandria, digital.
How many tutorials or sourced synopsis of events or other long form written media created by volunteers was lost to all of this? Its insanity.
That’s why I use the archive.org extension, it archives every site I visit when is has not been archived in the last 7 days. So when a website goes you can still find it with the waybackmachine. The best part is the extension will also automatically redirect to the most recent backup when you click on a dead link.
Sorry for the bad English.
I have such mixed feelings about all of this. I get why, stick it to Reddit and show them we have the control, but we just burn ourselves doing it. Kinda sucks all the way around.
The tutorials and guides on reddit are invariably reposts from somewhere else. There will be the occasional gem that is nowhere to be found but on balance I’d say reddit could vanish and it wouldn’t matter in the long run.
this. Being someone who had used Reddit a lot for information gathering, it really sucks that it had to go this far, so much information is being lost out of all this.
