this post was submitted on 17 Jun 2023
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I just ran Power Delete Suite on all of my comments and self posts, stating they have been removed in protest.

On July 1st, I am deleting every comment and post, then closing my account. Reddit was fun while it lasted.

The fediverse is still raw, but I see massive protentional here, and I am ready for this journey with all of you.

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[–] mykl 58 points 2 years ago (5 children)

It’s crazy isn’t it? Six months in and Mastodon still hasn’t clicked for me, but six days here and I know I’m not going back to Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Same boat. But Twitter wasn't really my kind of social media anyway, maybe that's why Mastodon hasn't locked in?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

twitter is way more useful for following people or groups for news/updates than posting comments and forming communities

like a secondary social media platform you can link elsewhere

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

It's the voting system that does it imo. When everyone just shouts random thoughts into the void hoping it goes viral the overall quality tends to be low. It makes for a decent RSS feed, but so do RSS feeds.

[–] mykl 6 points 2 years ago

Yeah it took me a couple of tries before I got Twitter, so I’ve been sticking with Mastodon so far. This might well be what I was looking for all along though.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"The future is now old man!"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Same here. Mastodon is nice, but never felt as good as Lemmy for me. Additionally the content here is much more interesting for me.

[–] Wiitigo 6 points 2 years ago

My sentiments exactly! It feels like Lemmy is exploding. But like, a good explosion.

[–] SpezCanLigmaBalls 5 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Does mastodon have anything else going on besides Twitter type stuff?

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

I wouldn't delete your account (in case Reddit tries to replace the deleted comments as they have been doing). But I would unsubscribe from every subreddit.

Additionally, if you have any very useful comments/posts, repost them to Lemmy and then edit them to leave some information that will redirect users to your posts in Lemmy. That way good information isn't lost and you'll help to slowly drive users towards Lemmy over time.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You need to tell this to more people since they shouldn't destroy valuable information.

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[–] Evono 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Thinking about doing the same to my acc with 250k+ karma.

[–] Reddit_was_fun 11 points 2 years ago

It is accounts like ours that hurt when they leave. Accounts that have been producing OC content for years and just not consuming posts. My karma is 50/50 posts and comments.

[–] Reddit_was_fun 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Be sure and delete your posts/comments on your way out, no reason to leave behind free content.

[–] Evono 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

If i go i will Mass edit them with Redact slowly to not trigger the auto ban systems then wait a week or so then remove them all with redact lol

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You might want to hold off on the deletion part... After the comments about "reddit is restoring posts", I logged back in and saw my entire history had been restored after 24 hours. That includes messages I deleted years ago.

So, went through and re-ran power delete suite again. Next day, there were a few back.

Going the lather-rinse-repeat route with wiping them. I figure if they want to burn CPU cycles recovering my stuff, I can burn their CPU cycles deleting it again. At some point I'll see about sending them a support request to remove all of my data if it keeps occurring.

[–] lka1988 7 points 2 years ago

Something to keep in mind - any comments you made in subs that went private were not affected by PDS, because they were made private with the rest of the sub.

[–] crescent_corvid 14 points 2 years ago (5 children)

this makes my little archivist heart sad tbh. fuck spez.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I've already started moving over to lemmy but I'm also seeing some weird stuff on my Reddit account. I've had more 'Followers' sign on to my account in the last 2 weeks than I've seen in the last 3-4 years. I don't believe these are real followers. What would be the reason for this? Is Reddit playing some sort of statistics game with long-time Reddit accounts?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Probably trying to get you to stay because you have "fans" now.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (5 children)

The mass exodus of Twitter and Reddit is like the burning of Alexandria, digital.

How many tutorials or sourced synopsis of events or other long form written media created by volunteers was lost to all of this? Its insanity.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is oddly exciting, like being a child again. I hope it grows into something great. Hello from kbin!

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I probably wouldn‘t remove the account itself
Otherwise you can‘t remove them again when they get restored by the admins

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Yeah. I deleted my content and account. Next day content was back, but my account was still gone.

[–] Mereo 6 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Do you live in Europe? Perhaps you can request the Right to be Forgotten (GDPR). If a lot of European do it, that might pressure Reddit.

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[–] Omegamanthethird 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

10 years and 180,000 karma. I nuked all of my comments and all but a couple of my posts.

However, I have seen that some of my comments are still there on posts despite not showing up in my comment history.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Just found out it was my cake day today, was planning on deleting everything on the 30th but it would be funny if i did it on the 6th year of my account

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Unsubscribed from everthing last night, went to check today and i have 2 subs.

funny stuff

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Could they have been private when you unsubbed from everything else, and therefore not appear in your list of subreddits?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I feel the fresh air of a new internet breeding <3

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Fyi accounts like yours can fetch above $200 on some sites. Sure they'll be used to advertise and spam but is that really your problem now?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Cool, I got rid of all 14 of mine.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Same, 15+ years, although I don't yet have a plan to delete my account. There may arise a need to leverage it in some other protestful way.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Like selling the account to a spammer lol

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[–] _danny 5 points 2 years ago

I've already ran it, it went very smooth for a similarly aged account. 12 years with >100,000 comment karma and probably 8,000ish comments.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I had two accounts, one 8 years old and one 4 years old, with a combined karma of about 120k. Deleted them both earlier. Nothing of value was lost; the only "conversation" you can find on Reddit is salty arguments anyway.

[–] Elgordofordo86 5 points 2 years ago

Not quite as big but I nuked 8 years and 25k. I'm doing my part!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

I have over 13k. My bot is keeping my comment list at 15 max and I'm not posting content. Been trying out kbin instead.
I'm hanging around until the end of June, but once Apollo is dark, I'm gone.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

me:

  • 14y+ account,
  • 14k comment karma,
  • 0 comments,
  • 0 posts

not deleting my account, because i want to verify that my account stays empty.

see /r/beatniak

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Good stuff. I deleted my account from 2011 the other day. This shit is stupid. Honestly already like kbin better anyway from a purely aesthetic perspective.

Reddit was fun while it lasted.

This is basically my attitude as well.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

purely aesthetic perspective.

Did you not use RES + OldReddit? It was perfect 😢

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I did the same, but it looks like a lot of my comments and posts are coming back.

[–] Elgordofordo86 6 points 2 years ago

It'll slowly repopulate ones that were hidden with time when there's 'nothing there'. Just gotta go back in a few hours and delete hat populated until it's all gone.

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