Gotta be honest, watching the titles of the posts getting deleted made me a bit nostalgic, because it was an almost 5yo account.
However, now that's old news, and my account is totally gone.
I won't miss it really, I like Lemmy a lot more.
Controversial maybe but I'm leaving my 12 years of content up in case there is an answer someone needs
I just won't use it anymore
That’s super nice of you but in the end it just adds value to a company that doesn’t give a shit about its creators.
The search volume and ads do not justify the help for the greater good IMO.
It fucks Reddit more over to use an adblocker and DDOS their servers to reduce the traffic.
Please do not ddos them
Consider removing it so users won't find it... Because the less value they get from reddit, the more likely it is they will come here instead.
Or that they just can't solve a problem. I'm all for fucking over reddit, but individual users get hit way harder than reddit when you delete posts containing technical info.
There needs to be a script, that moves each of your reddit comment over to Lemmy and edits the reddit comment with a link to the lemmy post
I like this compromise.
I have already seen bots that are moving complete reddit subs to their respective communities. It's really annoying, because there's no actual engagement whatsoever
It’s a compromise; the discussions aren’t lost, Reddit doesn’t get to have the data anymore, but like you said, there’s no engagement. The engagement needs to occur over here with new topics, possibly linking back to the copied old ones.
I agree, reddit gets most of their traffic from the engagement surrounding the latest shitposts and low-effort memes. (Or just genuine community content if you prefer)
Months old posts are hardly relevant to large scale user engagement and it's unlikely that the one user trying to solve a problem by visiting a years old thread is going to have much of an impact.
If people are going to move away from the site in a healthy manner, they need to realise for themselves that it's time to move on. Better to have a bunch of hopeful and curious people looking for new opportunities rather than bitter and resentful users which are going to vent their frustration elsewhere.
I was active in sysadmin subs. My people need those comments
Yeah I was in the Home Assistant sub. The number of times I Googled something I was struggling with, only to find a Reddit thread with MY comment telling people how to solve the exact issue I'm struggling with lol, I'll leave it up.
They won't come here... They'll go wherever they can to solve the problem, which won't be here because Lemmy doesn't really show up in search results yet
Same. I'm not gonna make the internet worse to use because I've now left the product. As a user, it's frustrating when I need help with some niche issue and find the perfect result on google, only for it to be deleted or otherwise useless. Deleting such history isn't gonna make people want to use Lemmy or the likes. Such historical information doesn't and will not exist on Lemmy.
I'm not gonna cut off the collective internet's nose to spite Reddit's face.
God, I wish I knew about Redacto. I manually deleted my 11 year old account over the course of like 3 days.
the hero we deserve
What? How?
I wouldn't do it this way.
Doesn't fully delete. I was still able to find old comments. It gets rid of most. Also reddit is known to restore deleted posts and comments now. Week after I deleted everything was restored automatically.
Post racist conspiracy theories until your scrubbed from the site, it's your only hope.
Legal advice.
All I had to do was report a pedophile with direct proof to get me banned and it got them a temp 7 day ban -_-.
Reddit is disgusting
Reddit is a fucking cesspool. Deleted that shit after they killed 3rd party apps. Wish I had fucked off outta there sooner.
People were saying see you in a week like this was only an API issue and not that the site became incredibly toxic and infested by bots and low quality content
Deleted my 10 year account with hundreds of posts and thousands of comments. I have to admit, leaving reddit has created a sort of vacuum in my life, and I have been spending more time scrolling on facebook, news sites and other shitty services. I'm happy to finally have landed on lemmy, but it has been a bit bumpy with the instability on lemmy.world.
Lemmy is getting there but it's still not a great replacement, especially when it comes to niche topics. For example, the Venture Bros movie came out recently and I wanted to discuss it with other fans, but there's no place on lemmy for that; or if there is, I have been unable to find it. Meanwhile the Venture Bros subreddit has 3 different megathreads. I'm keeping my reddit account around for things like that until lemmy grows a bit more.
A boycott is rarely comfortable.
I felt the same after removing my account of 7 years, it’s a smaller community here but at least we’re starting fresh
I left mine because there's lots of good info out there that will help people some day, but I'm done posting anymore on there. All my new comments go here.
You can never fully delete your reddit account.
Find some old threads that you commented on years ago; chances are that a good portion of them are still there. Your reddit history doesn't show everything, and AFAIK there are no tools available that can effectively eliminate every single post you've ever made, unless of course you simply didn't make many comments and posts to begin with.
Request a GDPR export and you will get your entire comment history. There are tools that can read that history and delete all the comments. I did encounter errors deleting a small number of comments which may have been due to the subs being privated. I deleted the problem ones from the json and the rest got deleted. I manually checked a sample of the comment urls to confirm.
This is only the case if it's less than 1000 posts or comments
It is crazy how quickly I saw that reddit is an actual defilement to the social process.
I kept getting booted out of using RES and old.r and how it wants to control the comments and everything ... I don't know. I'm happy that these federated systems are here. And I have looked at my next months budget to split donation to the cause.
Please have pledge drives right after upgrades or right after we have a big outage. Seems like that would be a great time to push for us to compensate the drivers of this public space.
I like Lemmy a lot more than reddit but not having the sports communities over here really kills the usefulness for me. My main use on reddit is talking baseball/football/hockey/soccer/basketball and the sports world just isn't over here.
I feel ya. I'm never logged in to Reddit anymore and if a search result pointe to Reddit I always go in incognito.
I will eventually batch edit my posts to crap and delete my account but it's an old account with 10 years of experiences, Aha-moments and other feelings... So I'm not ready yet....
If you just posted nonsense and useless stuff like memes without a real value sure go ahead.
IMO it's like burning a library of useful knowledge regardless of it's content. The amount of advice in casual conversations is IMO more important than "giving the finger" to Reddit.
My request if you really do it: Please archive useful advice threads on archive.org so some can at least take advantage while not having to visit reddit itself.
Fediverse thanks you
cool
The Reddit community is a confusing one. deleted posts, a red hammer down the community is gone. I've deleted a couple of accounts. It's really a community that takes time to run...
Now get banned so your "deleted" account history is marked too toxic to exploit.