It’s crazy isn’t it? Six months in and Mastodon still hasn’t clicked for me, but six days here and I know I’m not going back to Reddit.
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Same boat. But Twitter wasn't really my kind of social media anyway, maybe that's why Mastodon hasn't locked in?
Twitter's only purpose is for blue checkmarks to scream into the void, but why do that when you can watch more fun versions of blue checkmarks shitpost on Lemmy instead?
Yeah it took me a couple of tries before I got Twitter, so I’ve been sticking with Mastodon so far. This might well be what I was looking for all along though.
It's the voting system that does it imo. When everyone just shouts random thoughts into the void hoping it goes viral the overall quality tends to be low. It makes for a decent RSS feed, but so do RSS feeds.
"The future is now old man!"
Same here. Mastodon is nice, but never felt as good as Lemmy for me. Additionally the content here is much more interesting for me.
I wouldn't delete your account (in case Reddit tries to replace the deleted comments as they have been doing). But I would unsubscribe from every subreddit.
Additionally, if you have any very useful comments/posts, repost them to Lemmy and then edit them to leave some information that will redirect users to your posts in Lemmy. That way good information isn't lost and you'll help to slowly drive users towards Lemmy over time.
You need to tell this to more people since they shouldn't destroy valuable information.
all my comments were on removed subs so i dont think theyre all that valuable
Do you have evidence of reddit replacing comments?
You might want to hold off on the deletion part... After the comments about "reddit is restoring posts", I logged back in and saw my entire history had been restored after 24 hours. That includes messages I deleted years ago.
So, went through and re-ran power delete suite again. Next day, there were a few back.
Going the lather-rinse-repeat route with wiping them. I figure if they want to burn CPU cycles recovering my stuff, I can burn their CPU cycles deleting it again. At some point I'll see about sending them a support request to remove all of my data if it keeps occurring.
This is oddly exciting, like being a child again. I hope it grows into something great. Hello from kbin!
The mass exodus of Twitter and Reddit is like the burning of Alexandria, digital.
How many tutorials or sourced synopsis of events or other long form written media created by volunteers was lost to all of this? Its insanity.
I have such mixed feelings about all of this. I get why, stick it to Reddit and show them we have the control, but we just burn ourselves doing it. Kinda sucks all the way around.
The tutorials and guides on reddit are invariably reposts from somewhere else. There will be the occasional gem that is nowhere to be found but on balance I’d say reddit could vanish and it wouldn’t matter in the long run.
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Mine only had about 2,500 karma, and only five years old, but I deleted it, and now I'm here on Lemmy!
Just found out it was my cake day today, was planning on deleting everything on the 30th but it would be funny if i did it on the 6th year of my account
I've already ran it, it went very smooth for a similarly aged account. 12 years with >100,000 comment karma and probably 8,000ish comments.
Fyi accounts like yours can fetch above $200 on some sites. Sure they'll be used to advertise and spam but is that really your problem now?
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this makes my little archivist heart sad tbh. fuck spez.
I had two accounts, one 8 years old and one 4 years old, with a combined karma of about 120k. Deleted them both earlier. Nothing of value was lost; the only "conversation" you can find on Reddit is salty arguments anyway.
better do it earlier, if you're late PowerDeleteSuite might not work
well done. come over to lemmy and help pls. i have thousands of reddit accounts. all shall be deleted. The Ancient Ones shall rise again!!!! WOLOLOLOLOLLOLLLO!!!!!!
I've already started moving over to lemmy but I'm also seeing some weird stuff on my Reddit account. I've had more 'Followers' sign on to my account in the last 2 weeks than I've seen in the last 3-4 years. I don't believe these are real followers. What would be the reason for this? Is Reddit playing some sort of statistics game with long-time Reddit accounts?
Thinking about doing the same to my acc with 250k+ karma.
Be sure and delete your posts/comments on your way out, no reason to leave behind free content.
If i go i will Mass edit them with Redact slowly to not trigger the auto ban systems then wait a week or so then remove them all with redact lol
It is accounts like ours that hurt when they leave. Accounts that have been producing OC content for years and just not consuming posts. My karma is 50/50 posts and comments.
I used PowerDelete to replace my comments with Random Garbage, but it looks like only about 10% of comments actually got edited.
I have had to run it a few times, and Reddit appears to be restoring some comments as well in popular subs. I will keep it up until they ban me or July 1st hits. Then I will delete it all.
Last I heard it’s a bug with that version of the script
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Good stuff. I deleted my account from 2011 the other day. This shit is stupid. Honestly already like kbin better anyway from a purely aesthetic perspective.
Reddit was fun while it lasted.
This is basically my attitude as well.
purely aesthetic perspective.
Did you not use RES + OldReddit? It was perfect 😢
Can confirm: filters, user tags, local saves, RES was pretty good.
Wish I knew about shreddit or equivalents before checking out. Deleted my account, but years and years and thousands of karma worth of helpful content remains. Nowhere near as much as some of you guys -- but still years of thought and interaction and appreciated memes.
Much of the content I followed on reddit is now being posted in the fediverse as well. I'm very hopeful. Either way, not returning to Reddit no matter what. They are Digg to me.
Not quite as big but I nuked 8 years and 25k. I'm doing my part!
I probably wouldn‘t remove the account itself
Otherwise you can‘t remove them again when they get restored by the admins
Yeah. I deleted my content and account. Next day content was back, but my account was still gone.
Do you live in Europe? Perhaps you can request the Right to be Forgotten (GDPR). If a lot of European do it, that might pressure Reddit.
You can also make a request under the CCPA if you live in California and the DPA if you live in the UK.
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I did the same, but it looks like a lot of my comments and posts are coming back.
It'll slowly repopulate ones that were hidden with time when there's 'nothing there'. Just gotta go back in a few hours and delete hat populated until it's all gone.
I have over 13k. My bot is keeping my comment list at 15 max and I'm not posting content. Been trying out kbin instead.
I'm hanging around until the end of June, but once Apollo is dark, I'm gone.
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