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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 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

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 1 year 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'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 (2 children)

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

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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 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 1 year 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

I deleted my accounts every few years anyway

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year 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 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 1 year ago

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

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

[–] [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

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

Deleted yesterday right after the post from Christian detailing the scummy way in which Reddit was treating him.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've deleted my comments and posts and find Reddit then restored them a few hours later.

So I've written some Python to delete them automatically and have it run on a schedule. Fuck 'em. A week later and Reddit are still restoring my data for the script to delete.

[–] [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

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 1 year 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 1 year ago

Deleted my account & the 3rd party app on my phone. I'm only checking select subreddits through Libreddit (until it stops working).

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

Doubt Ill ever delete it, just abandon it.

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

I don’t think I’m going to delete, but I don’t think I will engage.

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

I've already deleted my reddit account a few days ago, never gonna use reddit for the foreseeable future.

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