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Im working up the courage to. Ill never go back, but it is also hard to delete that much history just for a statement

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[–] BackOnMyBS@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

me! i used power delete suite to ensure that all my posts and comments were also deleted beforehand :)

[–] sjolsen@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago

I hadn't really actively engaged with Reddit in years, and I stopped lurking almost cold turkey when they killed off the personal homepage on the mobile web interface earlier this year. I deleted my account when the Apollo news broke (I've never even used a third-party app, but it's crystal-clear what direction the wind is blowing). I only found out about lemmy after I pulled the plug.

Now to figure out how mastodon and all the other "fediverse" apps work :-)

[–] lemehmet@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

I am watching the show and will keep doing that till 30th. It feels like a social experiment, I am curious to see how different sub-communities will react. Sort if similar to what happened with twitter, the day elon pulled a spez I deleted my account.

[–] 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 3 points 2 years ago

I'll try to back up all the content I created over the years (mostly memes) and my comments, but I don't feel like using Reddit anymore.

It was convenient, but their business practices are a slap in the face of too many users, mods and devs.

[–] WandererLagomorph799@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Just waiting on a data request download for submissions (through reddits data request if there isn't a faster way) and noting/making my last few communities on Lemmy, then I'll be on my way out. Didn't expect to clear it this soon but life hits pretty fast sometimes.

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[–] bryan7675@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

My plan is to drop and delete Reddit on June 30th.

What I have not figured out yet, is where to post my goodbye. Any ideas?

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[–] kCNrnHcEkvqdtLCQoQbK@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 years ago

Deleted my account & the 3rd party app on my phone. I'm only checking select subreddits through Libreddit (until it stops working).

[–] MrPuppet@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago

I emptied the content from each comment I made. Then I deleted my accounts. I'm glad to be part of these new communities and conversations.

[–] teddy@lemmy.cornspace.space 3 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I want to transition off of Reddit but I'm not deleting my account because I feel like there's too much valuable information on the site to get rid of it all just yet.

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[–] dan@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

Not quite, but I also don’t really want to go back to reddit. I’m seeing some great alternatives on the rise, so I can sense I’ll be deleting the profile at some point. Just haven’t pulled that trigger yet.

[–] tookmyname@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I’ll go back for specific things like I’d go to any website looking for a solution for an issue after googling.

I’m not browsing Reddit anymore. Place is cancer. Even before all this API stuff I was over the nfts, the unimaginative meta humor, the predictable and repetitive nature of every top comment, the puns, the thirsty comments every time someone looks somewhat attractive, the hostility, etc. Reddit feels like I’m reading chatgpt now.

I’ll miss the smaller subreddits. Hopefully they’ll come soon. That’s where interesting conversations occurred.

I don’t know when I’ll delete my account. I have a lot of “saved” items I don’t want to lose yet. If I don’t find myself using those saves after a bit I’ll delete everything.

[–] dylan@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 years ago

Completely agree. I’ve hated the site for years because of all the crap they were adding to the new site, and how the larger subs were everything wrong with the internet, but there was nowhere else like it if you wanted community-based social media rather than individual user-based. Glad I can finally leave without looking back

[–] lodronsi@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago

I deleted my accounts earlier this week (before the AMA). I decided I could just make a new one in the future if that ever was a thing, and I’d rather not contribute to their line charts of “active users”, and rather would appear on those for “accounts deleted in the last 30 days”.

For me it was a symbolic reminder that I don’t want to lurk there and deleting my account was an action I remember. I hope they follow the direction of Twitter and Instagram by making the platform unusable without an account, further cementing more barriers for me.

[–] _pete_@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Deleted my posts, deleted my comments, account will be active until the 30th then I’ll probably delete that too.

It sucks - I had some 20K comment karma on about 2000 posts over 13+ years - but they’ve burnt that bridge and I’m not giving them anything back.

If I need to create a burner account at some point down the road then that’ll happen but I just don’t want to engage with it any more.

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[–] chillybones@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

I did - this rings too reminiscent of Twitter for me. I really dislike the native app, and the desktop app is all but unusable on my devices (why? I have no idea, we’re talking recent MacBooks with the m-series processors and gaming PC’s…). I also really dislike ads, and while I think there were options available to pay Reddit for no ads (premium?) it didn’t feel like my subscription money was going to the right place since Reddit is all user generated content. Unlike platforms like YouTube, where the users who create the content openly discuss how their revenue is generated, I’m not even sure the money I would pay to Reddit for premium would benefit the content creators on their site. So yeah, I’m really not going to struggle to use Reddit anymore. RIP Apollo.

[–] boiledbuns@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

I’ll use it on desktop since there’s likely valuable information and discussions on it (ie. communities that aren’t on Lemmy yet)

I’ve always been more of a lurker on Reddit but I’m making it a goal to contribute more on Lemmy 🫡

[–] L16H7N1N6@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago

Deleted my 14 year old account today.

[–] animist@lemmy.one 3 points 2 years ago

Just did it, no ragrets

[–] nimbool@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

I just pulled the plug and deleted my account but to be honest, I was mostly a lurker who mostly upvoted (or downvoted on occasions!) posts over there.

[–] eggnog@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 years ago

I've begun the process, requested my data from them and then afterwards i'll be nuking my account

[–] 1hitsong@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Just deleted 1 of my 2 reddit accounts.

This one was 11 years old. Once I get my requested account data downloaded for my 14 year old account, it's gone.

[–] termus@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago

I did a week ago, before all this went down. Just kept having terrible experiences interacting with people. After 15 years on reddit I was done with it. Deleted my account immediately. Then followed by regret for not backing up my saved section or removing my old comments. :(

[–] ilost7489@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I will probably wait until r/programmerhumor goes dark to delete

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[–] Pirky@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Not yet. I want to, though. I want to try saving down everything I've saved over the past 10 years. Once I do that, then I'll feel comfortable deleting it.

[–] sverit@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago

Just did it. removed everything with the PowerDelete script, then deleted my 12 year old account. Sad. I deleted all comments, too. Like many people here I find it sad, that this information is gone, but I do not want to give reddit traffic for my personal content.

https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite

[–] howdy@thesimplecorner.org 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

My last account is still open but I've deleted everything on it... I want to delete it on June 30th.

[–] bardm@lemmy.fmhy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Haven't pulled the plug fully. But all my posts and comments are now deleted. I think I'll be checking infrequently after the blackout just to see where they end up. Maybe then I'll delete the account too.

[–] deuxenun@partizle.com 3 points 2 years ago

Just deleted my 3yo account with lots of juicy karma in it, also 2 alts

[–] LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 years ago

Not yet. I'm waiting to watch it all fall apart. Definitely going to suck losing out on so many communities. But I'm no longer interested in the direction its going and have been using boost for a decade to browse. I rarely use reddit on desktop and refuse to use their bloated app. It's strayed so far from its original design philosophy that deleting it probably won't hurt all that much.

[–] RoaringSilence@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

Just today, some hours ago.

[–] Manticore@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

I plan to, but I also plan to do it fully - going through saved links and bookmarking or documenting relevant recipes/guides/etc, removing all the comment history, etc etc.

I'm not really good at doing that in a timely manner. I have so many big projects, and smaller projects, that have been postponed for so long. It's just another thing on the list.

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