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.
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.
Same boat. But Twitter wasn’t really my kind of social media anyway, maybe that’s why Mastodon hasn’t locked in?
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.
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?
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
“The future is now old man!”
Does mastodon have anything else going on besides Twitter type stuff?
this makes my little archivist heart sad tbh. fuck spez.
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.
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
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.
I feel the fresh air of a new internet breeding <3
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.
me:
- 14y+ account,
- 14k comment karma,
- 0 comments,
- 0 posts
not deleting my account, because i want to verify that my account stays empty.
see /r/beatniak
Wish I knew about shreddit or equivalents before checking out. Deleted my account, but years and years and thousands of karma worth of helpful content remains. Nowhere near as much as some of you guys – but still years of thought and interaction and appreciated memes.
Much of the content I followed on reddit is now being posted in the fediverse as well. I’m very hopeful. Either way, not returning to Reddit no matter what. They are Digg to me.
Unsubscribed from everthing last night, went to check today and i have 2 subs.
funny stuff
Could they have been private when you unsubbed from everything else, and therefore not appear in your list of subreddits?
I was never subscribed to them…creepy? and something else random.
Oh I see, that’s super weird!
Good stuff. I deleted my account from 2011 the other day. This shit is stupid. Honestly already like kbin better anyway from a purely aesthetic perspective.
Reddit was fun while it lasted.
This is basically my attitude as well.
purely aesthetic perspective.
Did you not use RES + OldReddit? It was perfect 😢
Can confirm: filters, user tags, local saves, RES was pretty good.
Same, 15+ years, although I don’t yet have a plan to delete my account. There may arise a need to leverage it in some other protestful way.
Like selling the account to a spammer lol
Hypothetically, if there were a market for 12yr old reddit accounts, where would something like that be? So I can make sure to never go there, being the owner of a 12yr old reddit account myself.
As someone with a 10 year old account myself I would also like to know where and who to avoid.
I probably wouldn‘t remove the account itself
Otherwise you can‘t remove them again when they get restored by the adminsYeah. I deleted my content and account. Next day content was back, but my account was still gone.
Do you live in Europe? Perhaps you can request the Right to be Forgotten (GDPR). If a lot of European do it, that might pressure Reddit.
I think they would just use the normal account deletion procedure, so all comments would still be there just with a “deleted user” user
You can also make a request under the CCPA if you live in California and the DPA if you live in the UK.
Unfortunately no enforceable measures that I am aware of for residence of New England.
Just found out it was my cake day today, was planning on deleting everything on the 30th but it would be funny if i did it on the 6th year of my account
well done. come over to lemmy and help pls. i have thousands of reddit accounts. all shall be deleted. The Ancient Ones shall rise again!!! WOLOLOLOLOLLOLLLO!!!
I’ve already ran it, it went very smooth for a similarly aged account. 12 years with >100,000 comment karma and probably 8,000ish comments.
