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I did it. I deleted all my Reddit accounts. (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This was a really hard decision for me but I purged all my posts, votes and comments via Shreddit. I then deleted all my accounts. I've been on Reddit since it was just a baby website. I love Reddit, the friends and the communities I was involved in changed my life for the better.

We'll see how it goes but the only way we are going to win this fight is to walk away from Reddit. We have to send a message to them and the only way to do that is to hit them where it really hurts, right in the wallet.

Change is a good thing and I am ready to embrace it. I'm all in on kbin now. Let's see where we go from here 🍻

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

I personally would prefer to keep my comments and posts and just delete the account. That way others don't have to go to cached and archived versions of pages if a subreddit isn't privated to see the full context of a comment, and it's just better for overall preservation.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Same here. I don't want to wipe out all the valuable info I've contributed over the years just to satisfy a desire to get revenge. The amount Reddit as a company suffers from deleting a single account is negligible, but that account could have exactly what someone needs one day. We've already collectively lost a lot of knowledge and information in just the past 10-20 years due to things not being archived properly - think source code for old games, websites pre-Archive.org, out of print books, etc.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

@[email protected] yep, while i do agree everyone can decide if they want to delete their data it unfortunately causes loss of knoweldge possibly. Like i browse r/Latexadvice. If suddenly tons of people would decide to delete their comments lots of people trying to find information would suddenly have a way harder time.