Asklemmy

Also been on Reddit for more than 12 years now. But with recent development regarding third party apps, I've made my peace with it. As soon as those apps shut down, I'll abandon my Reddit account. However, I'll not be going to delete my post and comments, since I don't see any sense in doing so. Reddit will not care as some kind of protest, and my data should have already been scraped by dozens of search engines and AI-training companies anyway.

I will keep it and see. If Reddit decides to roll back the API changes and starts listening to the community, I'll probably keep using it. But if they don't, I'm conflicted. Deleting it would be nice, because they lose their interactions, posts and data, which is what makes them money. But there are also some posts with important answers to niche questions, and the random stranger looking that questions up in 3 years would also be affected. So for now, I'll probably leave it abandoned and I'll see if I delete it when they make some more stupid changes.

Not yet, I'm holding out to see if anything changes (I'm not hopeful though).

Come the 12th if nothing has changed I'm gonna sell my account. It's worth about £100 apparently.

Deleting the history was sad. I made backups of everything and pulled the trigger today, though I'm almost sad I won't be there to log-in tomorrow and see how barren it is with all the subreddits dark.

I have been too lazy to sign in and do it. What is funny is that I had been using Infinity to browse anonymously, but got annoyed that I could not bookmark anything.

I made an account like a month or two ago, and have barely posted anything. I could have done without.

Yet, if Reddit was not fucking up, I may not have given Lemmy a second chance. I tried it before, but I swear most of the posts were meta. Talking about a platform does not make a platform appealing.

In an effort to support new communities here I'm going to let my reddit account linger so I can pull interesting content from there and post it here. At least for a week or two while things get established

I'm not, at most I'm gonna park it and just never use it again. If they want to delete it, they'll have to introduce an inactive account deletion policy

Accounts are meaningless. Karma and upvotes are just buttons. They only hold meaning if you intentionally assign meaning to them. Just download the photos you’ve posted if you don’t have copies and be free of assigning real material qualities to fictional concepts, like some transient code that says your account is 6 years old with 1.6million karma.

Couple of weeks ago I got permanently suspended from reddit. I've been a user for 11 years, they suspended my 11 year old account.

Why? Here's why.

It was in worldnews sub, you probably will remember the video where a cop kills a guy who's threatening others to commit suicide.

All I said was this:

"Sir you cannot kill yourself, that's our job"

BAM. Permanently banned for threatening and spreading violence. It's unbelievable. Mods think they're gods, so do admins. Fuck reddit ,I hope they collapse like WTT building.

I think I'll leave my Reddit account and not delete it. My account suddenly going silent, after 13 years of near-daily activity, at this of all times, ought to make the statement I wish to make.

I'm wondering whether I should post a goodbye message on my Reddit profile page with a link to my new home here on Lemmy. See if they have the audacity to ban me for “spamming” my own profile page. Even if they do, it'll be one of numerous accounts falsely banned for “spam” in the middle of a well-publicized uproar and mass migration away from Reddit, and that isn't fooling anyone. Either way, my statement is made.

Not yet. Thinking how to transfer favourite posts from favourite subs (like r/retrofuturism) without being accused of stealing someone's work.

I'm not deleting it yet, since some subs I can't let go haven't come to Lemmy yet. As soon as that happens or if those subs migrate elsewhere, I'll remove Reddit

as someone pointed out in this comment, I don't think deleting all the content we generated thoughout the years is a good idea. I still get replies on years old posts from people who had that same exact question, and the amount of information I actively find on reddit is crazy. Reddit won't care about deleted accounts and posts (and they will only be a minority anyway), and I think doing so is a disservice to every person on the web.

Unless you only posted in r/memes and r/askreddit lol

Just before I joined here, I deleted my posts and my account from reddit. Hopefully I don't need to visit the site very often anymore after today's shitshow.

I deleted Boost three days ago. I'm still adjusting to the implosion of Twitter and this happens.

I think I’ll sell my account and donate to lemmy project

I just deleted mine. I figured if I can't really remember what I had saved, then I probably don't really need any of that stuff anyways.

Strongly considering it. I requested a dump of all my posts & comments there (going back to 2005!) and expect to be pulling out of there at the end of the month if this absurd situation isn't resolved.

You can request a dump of all your Reddit data here under EU GDPR or California CCPA.

I deleted all of my posts and comments from my 8 year old account today. Just need to 'export' saved videos and articles to some other apps and then I'll delete the actual account.

Annoyingly, even thought I don't want to support Reddit. There is still going to be some useful things on Reddit, but I really hope most the community move over to here, or somewhere else.

I think I’m going to on my next day off. During the blackout. See ya never spez!

Im still high on hopium

I just deleted all my data from Reddit using Redact. Honestly, it's heartbreaking to delete all of my activity, but I'd still live

I was a reddit user for about 15 years. Deleted my account and post history yesterday — honestly haven’t missed it as much as I thought I would 🤷‍♂️

Defaced my old account and created this one. Not deleting just yet as I want my deface comments to inspire others to leave

Haven't yet. I'm going dark when everyone else does, and I will uninstall the Reddit app when my third party app stops working. But there are some things that I can't do on Lemmy, and don't expect to be able to do for quite a long time - not until the user base is much larger.

been on reddit for over 12 yeaars, but i always abandon my accounts after a few years and start new ones to avoid having too much personal info on one account. Im using Redact to currently delete all my comments from my newest account that is a little over 2 years old, still in the process of deleting, currently at 700… this is gonna take a while

edit: done, 1185 comments gone! now doing the same with the account before that, currently at 1100 and still going!

8 year old account just deleted, bye bye proffit driven communities. I really hope P2P and federated networks took over the internet and doom these data hoarders into oblivion

I’ve been a 10+ year user of Reddit with multiple accounts over the years. During that time, I’ve deleted accounts and created new ones for the sake of privacy. There is no value lost in these situations.

Deleted Reddit Sync app off my phone. This will drop my Reddit activity 99.99%. Keeping account in case I need to look something up down the road.

I have a lot of things saved so I'll probably keep it until I can extract what I want to keep.

I'm exploring my options.

As long as old.reddit exists and there is a large community, I'll be 'stuck' with Reddit. I'm not there for the platform - I'm there for the people. I'll go where the people go.

As far as mobile usage goes, I don't know. Without an 'Apollo for Lemmy' or 'Lemmy is Fun' - I'm hanging around waiting for something to happen.

Reddit is the longest I've had a social media account after Facebook - pushing my 12th year. And I've participated in a lot of social media and message boards that came and went.

In my experience, websites sites die quickly when leadership prioritizes scraping profits over a user experience. And look, I completely understand and respect that companies need to earn revenue. However, it's a two-way relationship. Users will always flock to a more streamlined and accessible experience.

It's why Pandora > Shoutcast/iTunes Radio. It's why Spotify > Pandora. And it's why Netflix > Blockbuster. It's why after years of using Fark.com for news engagement, I joined Reddit. It gave me a far superior experience (not that Fark was ever bad).

I really like Lemmy. And I like the concept of federated spaces. But whether or not the concept is a big enough draw is really to be determined - especially without knowing what the mobile experience looks like.

All this to say.. I'll delete my account when it's no longer relevant. If I can get truly unique food and drink recommendations for my local city here, with enthusiastic participants all joining in the conversation - that's what I'll need to bury the past 12 years of online activity.

I'm done.... Was a user and contributor since the very early days. Out of principle l shall not be returning!

June 30th is my date. I have a 13 year old account and a 8 year old account. I'm considering options what to do with the accounts. I'm split between selling them or nuking all the comments and deleting them.

Just did it, no ragrets