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Does anyone regret deleting their Reddit account? (self.reddit)
submitted 1 year ago by RealNooshie to c/[email protected]
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1277945

When the whole Reddit fiasco started happening, I saw a lot of people wiping and deleting their Reddit accounts and moving elsewhere, like here on Lemmy.

Now that it's starting to die down a little bit, does anyone regret doing that? Or are you glad that you took that step?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I downloaded my comments/posts, then nuked with powerdeletesuite. :) Kept my account open, purely so that I have control over it, and Reddit couldn't un-delete without me having access to it.

So far, I miss knowing wrestling news as it was my main source of that, but... Meh no don't miss it much at all :)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I tried to nuke it too... turns out reddit has been ignoring delete and edit requests. I think they are rate capping the requests.

After running powerdeletesuite multiple times with all kinds of settings, I could still find comments of mine not deleted.

I also requested a GDPR set of account information. ALL of my deleted/edited comments are still there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Oh damn! I there were about 50 stubborn ones that powerdelete couldn't scrub, so I did those manually, but... I think I'll do the same, a fresh gdpr dataset after a few weeks would be interesting...

:) Thanks for the heads up, they've become such a weird company, or maybe always were?