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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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

For that reason, I'm leaving mine up. Some might be useless, sure. But others I put some effort in. They're a little piece of Internet history, and I'm loath to set fire to that. I can still move to another platform while leaving my account intact.

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

As a newbie data hoarder the Reddit exodus has felt like my first real trail for making a personal archive of content I wanna go back to. Ran a scraper on a few of my top subs right before the blackout on top of cherry picking posts I regularlly returned to for information.

Overall think I'm pretty set for never returning to that place.

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

https://lemm.ee/comment/251639 how to download your Reddit data in a better way

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

I've done a data request with Reddit and will probably attempt to use a script to download my entire history (plus context, if possible) before July 1, then I'll see about overwriting the comments.

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

I did the same to my 10 year old, 120k karma account; all that was lost was stupid jokes and meme references.