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can anyone recommend an easy tool to do this? I don't want to leave anything behind they can scrape and profit from.

Ya, you know I haven't opened reddit since the blackout started. I removed "slide" from my phones home screen.

It's kinda sad, but I'm rediscovering RSS, now I've found kbin, and Im fine. I think not mindlessly scrolling reddit after my main interests have been covered has been nice for my brain.

I couldn't truly nuke my account. I'm studying for mcat and r/MCAT has a ton of better explanations for aamc (test maker) practice tests.

I sort use Lemmy 90% and reddit 10%.

I also installed blacklist to filter out reddit content (their is a toggle to show hidden reddit searches in worst case if needed). This kinda helps give visibility to other sites.

I did this earlier this week to my 10yr old account. I used redact to delete my posts and comments as well. I didnt think it was fair since I'm one of those Apollo users.

doing the same as we speak. My replacement text is "Moved to Lemmy because Reddit has become greedy with data generated by their community"

Nope, I did the same yesterday without looking back. I feel happy not to use this corporate crap anymore.

Why delete though? Its all still there in Reddit's database.

Geez you didn’t save the content beforehand? I would absolutely have found a way to archive that stuff first

here's a question, wouldn't it be more impactful to encourage users to redact with a protest statement promoting fedverse first?

assuming they're doing a 30 day backup scheme then this becomes part of their working set going forward. messing with the data in this way especially if we can do it in volume might make it harder for LLMs to extract useful information from our noise.

we then can then start deleting our posts as a second protest after that.

thoughts?

Radical problems require radical solutions.

I wasn't an active Redditor, and so far I like this community much better. Might change as the place gets more and more inhibitors.

I had this feeling when deleting another social media account. On a good note, it's fleeting. Now most are in the void for me.

Over a decade on my account, not sure the actual year. I won't be nuking my account, personally. I'm happy with kbin for now and haven't opened reddit since Monday.

I also did this, 6 years old account, all gone.
It was a great decision cause now I can contribute here

Not at all, I love deleting and forgetting old stuff

I am struggling to go and do it myself but this helps seeing someone with 12 years of history. Would love to be able to download the 10,000+ pages of stuff I wrote though to not lose it forever.