For anyone interested in doing the same, use shreddit.com. This also deletes all your comments, posts and votes.
fuck u/spez
For people who stay out of it.
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Just did the same. Liberating.
I would go a step further and delete all your posts / comments that are informational / useful.
Oh don't worry, the only comment left was a link to join Lemmy
I deleted an 8 and 12 year old Reddit account with a combined 100,000k karma. Deleted all the content along with it.
Have done the exact same, except I deleted all comments and posts (with shreddit.com if you want to do the same) and left only one post: a statement about the whole reddit API fiasco (and how it is unacceptable) and my lemmy username and instance. (Sorry for my terrible English, I'm not a native speaker)
Congratulations! it's sad to see what they've done to Reddit... but fuck these greedy bastards. Lemmy is quite nice for now, except i haven't seen any videos yet.