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.
this post was submitted on 09 Jun 2023
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Not yet but I havenβt used it since the Apollo drama.
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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Iβll be deleting my 10+ year account once Apollo dies. May lurk in a few communities for a bit until thereβs something similar here.
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)
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.
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.
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.
I don't plan on deleting my reddit accounts to be honest, I put way too much work in them, plus they have some saved posts that I really need and use as a reference from time to time. Also, there are some communities there that I don't believe will shift over here (for some, I am sure they won't, since they're other not that big amd moderation is not a problem for them), so I'll mostly be using Lemmy and Reddit interchangeably.
My main use of Reddit was discussing movies and series that no one in my immediate circle were interested in. So far, I'm not seeing much content in that area (edit: on Lemmy), but maybe we can create the communities ourselves?
Yeah, sure, go nuts. I created a few that I thought were mising here.
Cool! Would you mind explaining to me how I go about it? Sorry, I'm completely new here.
I don't know how to do it from the Jerboa app, only through the web UI. Login on your Lemmy instance, top right corner, the hamburger button --> Create Community.
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
Doubt Ill ever delete it, just abandon it.
I'm debating it, but deleting content seems pretty much a lot of work.
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Not sure yet, a lot of subs haven't set up on Lemmy yet. Hoping that'll change after the blackout next week.
Yup. Deleted my 10 year old account yesterday.
Lemmy is reddit but open source and federated. I was already sold on it before I knew about it, there just wasn't a community to interact with before. Now there's a community. my reddit accounts including all comments except for some relating to lemmy migration have been vaporized.
Deleted account history like many others (after a GPDR and manual export of everything). Going to delete my account just before the 30th, as I won't be able to use it anyway. For now I'm still somewhat lurking on Reddit, so to keep my list of subscribed subreddits, I have not deleted my account yet.
Just deleted it, I hope the future for the fediverse goes down right.
I need to go through all my saved posts, and then I will delete it. Just delaying it since I probably have 500 posts saved... will take ages
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I've wiped my author account and main account.
But I won't delete the accounts because fuck them, they don't get to recycle those. I could delete the account under this name, because it was just my alt for moderating, and it's such an inside joke that only maybe five people would get that it isn't worth deleting.
Yep, I had been teetering, I like the idea of a FOSS public solution. I still fondly remember nntp before it was ruined. It reminds me of Reddit in many ways.