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

Doubt Ill ever delete it, just abandon it.

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

I deleted the app but not my account. I thought about going back someday, but honestly I don't think I will. The last few days without reddits pessimistic view (at least how I see it) have actually been great.

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

Purged everything this morning bar for one last comment on the Apollo thread. Currently using kbin.social - exploring my options, but I wont be returning to Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years 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.

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

No, but I'm migrating most of my usage here. Some small subreddits will probably never be replicated here and I like talking about smaller games and bands sometimes.

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

My plan is to drop and delete Reddit on June 30th.

What I have not figured out yet, is where to post my goodbye. Any ideas?

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

I've barely got any posts on there, so I've kind of just left my account for now. I'll purge it later on once I feel like all of my niche communities I need are elsewhere.

I however, do not visit it more than once a day now though, and I expect that frequency to drop-off (primarily for local level news right now - too small to expect them to migrate elsewhere for now)

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

I’m waiting til after the blackout. Afterwords I’m pulling the plug.

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

I deleted my accounts every few years anyway

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

Mate I deleted my account as soon as they announced the API change.

I know that BS trajectory. Reddit has been killing off the mobile website for a while, probably going for the old reddit too.

Fuck 'em.

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

I haven't yet, but will do on the 30th (after running Redact) before Sync stops working. What I have done is requested my data, removed all the posts and customisation from the subs I moderate (r/fryup being the biggest at 30k users) and set them to private.

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

I've deleted my 16 years worth of comments and post history. I now spend my time between here and Tildes, and just go back to reddit watch it burn.

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

I plan to, and almost certainly will by the end of the month.
I'm sticking around just long enough to see how the blackout goes and to watch a bit of the resulting dumpster fire after tho.

RIP to RIF

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

I'm not deleting, just abandoning. I had another person step up to mod the only community I was modding.

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

I'm out. Nixed mine. Honestly I was never a huge power user so it's not too big a loss.

[–] [email protected] 2 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I don't really want to delete content potential googlers could stumble upon and be helped by, but I've replaced the Relay shortcut on my homescreen with a Jerboa shortcut. That's as good as deleted cause that's all I access reddit through.

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

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.

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

I think I'm still holding out hope that they will come to their senses, but I'll probably delete eventually.

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

I was always a lurker on Reddit so I don’t have to worry about purging post or comment history. I literally just haven’t gotten around to deleting it yet. I’ll miss the more local niche communities, but they’ll show up here and in other places in time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I've been lurking on regularly cycled usernames, so that was pretty easily done. I haven't deleted Slide yet, but since it'll stop working on 30th, that's a given. I'm going to try my best to help build up the niche communities like hardware focused ones on lemmy

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I plan to, but I also plan to do it fully - going through saved links and bookmarking or documenting relevant recipes/guides/etc, removing all the comment history, etc etc.

I'm not really good at doing that in a timely manner. I have so many big projects, and smaller projects, that have been postponed for so long. It's just another thing on the list.

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

I'm debating it, but deleting content seems pretty much a lot of work.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

There are tools out there that will do this automatically

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I value my content and the communities too much (despite its problems). I won't be deleting my account, and definitely not the content I posted.

I don't know yet what will happen to my usage and contribution level. Maybe it will only be on desktop PC from now on. We will see.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I won't delete my account, atleast not in the foreseeable future. Won't install the official app though and stop using reddit on mobile entirely. There's just so much resources and old content available on reddit, and a lot that I've saved, that's next to impossible to migrate anywhere. I'll keep my account for that, and just that so I can access it when I need to.

[–] HaalandsLusciousHair 2 points 1 year ago

I am going to wait until the blackout in two days I think. If reddit doesn't back down on their decision I am going to delete the app.

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

I already deleted all my comments and posts and when the time comes and RIF is down I'll delete my whole account.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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

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

I used the power delete suite to get a backup of all my shit, change all comments to "bye reddit" and then delete them. I'm done with reddit unless spez is gone and they back track waaaay the fuck back

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[–] [email protected] 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

[–] [email protected] 2 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).

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