I did it after the "noise" memo leaked. 12+ years of Reddit gone. I left Digg in the Exodus and I'm not taking Reddit's shit either.
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Yup me too. Just deleted with a nice "fuck you spez" parting message
I deleted all, all, I'd rather not be part of the next scrapping. In any case I can build my own AI with my own comments for my own personal gain if I want, at least I consented to that.
Can you provide a link to the "noise" memo that was leaked? I must've missed it because I haven't heard of this. If it convinced you and was the final straw to delete your account, I'd be interested in seeing it as well
I'm more set on overriding all my comments, but I'm still on the fence about deleting the whole account. At least, once I know with 100% certainty that they won't be reverted back to their original states (if possible)
The full text is quoted in this article, about halfway down: https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/13/23759559/reddit-internal-memo-api-pricing-changes-steve-huffman
Social media comes, and social media goes. Reddit.has peaked and will join the others in the dustbin of failed public offerings.
As it began, so shall it end: a snoo in a strange land.
Same. Just did it today. I've also been on reddit since the beginning and I'm done.
Yup. I was on reddit since before subreddits were even a thing. Good riddance.
I haven't deleted my accounts yet, but I blocked reddit in my router firewall. This past week I found myself repeatedly going there without thinking, like a genuine addiction.
I didn't realize until the blackout how bad Google search results are without Reddit. Everything from finding video game hints to recommendations on the best bicycle seats... All the best, trustworthy content was from users on Reddit.
I've compromised by using Google cached search results to avoid giving Reddit views.
Now the arduous but necessary task of making the Fediverse the place for those results instead.
I wonder how good instances will be able to appear on for example google. I do have my own calckey instance for example but dont yet understand how indexing stuff works
I'm primarily on mobile, so I put lemmy shortcut in the place where reddit was. Haven't deleted it, but it's working!
I deleted Reddit from my phone homepage. It's crazy how often I find myself going to click it without even thinking about it. It really does feel like a drug addiction.
I know, right? It's exit reddit, go back to it, exit reddit, go back to it.
I've deleted all my comments from the last 10 years a few days ago. Riding it out until the 30th, and then I'm out. kbin looks like the perfect replacement/alternative that I've seen so far.
Iβm thinking about not deleting the account, but selling it. Not sure what will hurt reddit more.
Please check that your comments and accounts stay deleted! Apparently Reddit is restoring deleted comments.
This has to be bumped up higher, I think people are still deleting their accounts before making sure their comments are either staying deleted or rewritten!!!
I've started seeing threads on reddit now stating that deleted/edited comments are getting reverted to their original forms. This includes ones done from Shreddit and PowerDeleteSuite etc.
It happened to me three times after using PDS. I ended up using a Tampermonkey script called Spaz's Reddit Delete, which also scrambles all comments and then deletes them, with an appropriate window of time between each action to avoid triggering any anti-spam response. This seems to have done the trick, and my comments or submissions haven't reappeared.
Honestly it kinda just looks like server issues to me with the delete request getting dropped before completion or something, but still showing correctly client-side until re-loaded.
That said, I've edited all my comments to gibberish and left them up in that state. I'll check and see if any are back in a week or two.
EDIT: I take it back, it's not server issues.
EDIT2: It seems like comments in private subs didn't properly save the edits.
I deleted a bunch of my posts and comments manually earlier this week (did not use any tools, just clicked edit > delete) and now all of those posts and comments are back. The posts showed as gone for several days between. This isnβt a server error.
Shreddit also edits your comments before deleting them IIRC. In order to prevent stuff like this from happening.
They're reverting them to the original comment, pre-edit and deletion.
Deleted my 1yo alt and my 12yo reddit account. Don't really use third party apps, but I their whole attitude was awful and it's not like thing are going to get better there.
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.
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] 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.
This doesnβt just send a message to Reddit. In fact, Reddit is failing to heed the lessons of history to their own current detriment and ultimate demise.
Community is everything in this landscape. Treat your user base like shit at your own peril.
Welcome to the gang, gang. I deleted my accounts when Christian put out the message about Apollo closure.
Iβm proud of you numbers!
I also did this. 5yrs and 1k karma.
I'm not that optimistic about lemmy's future (especially after lemmy.world defederation on beehaw), but I'm glad to be here.
If it won't work, I'll just stop wasting my time on reading things I don't need. If it will, that'll be cool.
In a general sense I'm in favor of the community using the tools that are fully integrated to curate their experiences. If you desperately need lemmy.world and beehaw you can sign up someplace else, that doesn't block either. They don't have to deal with each other, and your experience continues on.
After seeing this I deleted my account too. Iβve found alternatives and for some of my more niche interests, the forums are still active. Kinda fun living pre reddit.
I deleted mine too and just like the Johnson & Johnson Shampoos, no tears for Spez!
I wonder how i'll go forward after Sync for reddit dies... Seems kinda hard to just completely stop using reddit when there are certain information communities i kinda depend on which are already pretty niche on reddit itself.
My account is being shredded as we speak. 1500 comments and counting.
Same. Well done!!
I am keeping my reddit account but will be restricting use to r/HFY and r/askhistorians where I will mainly read and not comment. No activity beyond reading while this crap is happening.
After seeing this I deleted my account too. Iβve found alternatives and for some of my more niche interests, the forums are still active. Kinda fun living pre reddit.
Imagine being Aaron Schwartz, alive, today...
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