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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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[–] tookmyname@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 1 year 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

[–] NoxiousPluK@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago

I'm waiting for my GDPR data export, but it's taking longer than they promise already. Very close to get rid of it all.

[–] eggnog@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

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

[–] boiledbuns@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year 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 🫡

[–] Pirky@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year 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.

[–] arthur@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

I still have my account and I don't plan on deleting but much like my Twitter account it'll just be there. I'll check it for the few people and communities that stay behind.

[–] rowdy@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Just deleted my 5yo account. But it wasn’t that hard since I mostly lurked.

[–] WandererLagomorph799@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year 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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[–] Rhinoceros@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Planning on deleting my alt accounts, however I'm not going to delete my main account, I will just programmatically delete all my posts and comments.

I suspect that deleting accounts won't be what Reddit is looking at anyway, all they'll care about is ad revenue, and my accounts which were not generating any revenue will not bother them in the slightest.

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[–] PetDeCerveau@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

Deleted my accounts a few weeks ago. Over time, I’ve found the noise levels to be cyclical and I happened to hit a point of “why am I scrolling through this stuff?” The API nuttiness just reinforced that decision for me.

[–] SomeNumpty@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

I've been a long time user on Reddit. Just deleted all my posts and comments (been mostly a lurker, so not much there) using shreddit, then deleted my Reddit account and uninstalled the app (Boost - loved it) from my phone. I'm done with Reddit, the AMA and behaviour of u/spez and the other Reddit admins was just too much.

I hope I get some time back from stupidly browsing Reddit, but also don't want to miss out on some of the communities (r/adventofcode specifically, hope they make it over to Lemmy at some point).

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

[–] Reitoei@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Currently using 'Redacted' app on Android to purge my musing. Automated for the win.

I’ve deleted all my content (by hand—there wasn’t much), and I plan to delete my account on June 30 before Apollo stops working.

[–] CaptManiac@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago

Not yet. I think Lemmy needs to mature a bit more and get more of the groups I'm interested in.

[–] _pete_@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year 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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[–] lodronsi@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year 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.

[–] MrPuppet@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year 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.

[–] kudzu@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

I had been without a Reddit account for a while using Infinity (3rd party app) without being logged in. I didn't care about being able to post of comment but it's much more fun on Lemmy! Lemmy is much nicer than Reddit in my opinion and I'll end up stopping using Reddit completely

[–] 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 3 points 1 year 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.

[–] lemehmet@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year 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.

[–] sjolsen@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year 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 :-)

[–] JasBC@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

I deleted mine nearly directly on the spot when the news about shutting out 3rd-party apps hit the net. No big deal.

[–] Hastur@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Done some weeks ago already. Reddit is increasingly suffering from what Doctorow calls enshittyfication and that led me to delete my account.

[–] sverit@feddit.de 3 points 1 year 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

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

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

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[–] termus@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year 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. :(

[–] Crabhands@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (8 children)

I have. And i would love for it to be permanent, but that's going to depend on if Lemmy continues to build content. At the end of the day, I like this platform but without content I won't stay. Current momentum is looking fantastic though, and I will continue to comment and add my pieces!

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[–] FaceDeer@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I see no particular need to delete my account or any of its content, personally. I know it's everybody's own decision but frankly it strikes me as kind of needlessly destructive, like torching a restaurant because you no longer enjoy eating there. Other people still do, there's no reason to take it from them.

If Reddit evolves in such a way that I no longer find it useful or enjoy going there, I'll just stop. I'm actually happy if my old data remains useful to others - lots of times I go searching Google for information and wind up in an old Reddit thread, for example.

[–] ebranty@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

I did,it was hard cause it had 10 years of memories on it but these new changes and the way leadership is acting I know if I where to not delete them I would come crawling back at some point rather just quit cold turkey

[–] luispotro@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

I'm kind of emotionally attached to my main and alt account to do that, yet.

[–] L16H7N1N6@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Deleted my 14 year old account today.

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