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as someone pointed out in this comment, I don't think deleting all the content we generated thoughout the years is a good idea. I still get replies on years old posts from people who had that same exact question, and the amount of information I actively find on reddit is crazy. Reddit won't care about deleted accounts and posts (and they will only be a minority anyway), and I think doing so is a disservice to every person on the web.

Unless you only posted in r/memes and r/askreddit lol

Two key things to think about before pulling the plug:

Edit or delete your comment history. Spez confirmed in the AMA today that the turnaround on API pricing came when they realised how badly the AI bros need good content for their models and how much they would be willing to pay.

Consider selling your account. Old accounts with lots of karma can sell for a decent amount of cash. There are a few specific sites, or good old eBay if you’re cautious. If Reddit don’t care about how much harder it will be for mods to do their jobs in future, neither should we.

I'm not deleting it yet, since some subs I can't let go haven't come to Lemmy yet. As soon as that happens or if those subs migrate elsewhere, I'll remove Reddit

I think I’m going to on my next day off. During the blackout. See ya never spez!

Defaced my old account and created this one. Not deleting just yet as I want my deface comments to inspire others to leave

My account is still there but I haven't been back since creating an account here on sh.itjust.works. I don't plan on going back.

I was a reddit user for about 15 years. Deleted my account and post history yesterday — honestly haven’t missed it as much as I thought I would 🤷‍♂️

Haven't yet. I'm going dark when everyone else does, and I will uninstall the Reddit app when my third party app stops working. But there are some things that I can't do on Lemmy, and don't expect to be able to do for quite a long time - not until the user base is much larger.

I just deleted all my data from Reddit using Redact. Honestly, it's heartbreaking to delete all of my activity, but I'd still live

In an effort to support new communities here I'm going to let my reddit account linger so I can pull interesting content from there and post it here. At least for a week or two while things get established

8 year old account just deleted, bye bye proffit driven communities. I really hope P2P and federated networks took over the internet and doom these data hoarders into oblivion

been on reddit for over 12 yeaars, but i always abandon my accounts after a few years and start new ones to avoid having too much personal info on one account. Im using Redact to currently delete all my comments from my newest account that is a little over 2 years old, still in the process of deleting, currently at 700… this is gonna take a while

edit: done, 1185 comments gone! now doing the same with the account before that, currently at 1100 and still going!

I deleted Boost three days ago. I'm still adjusting to the implosion of Twitter and this happens.

Already have

Strongly considering it. I requested a dump of all my posts & comments there (going back to 2005!) and expect to be pulling out of there at the end of the month if this absurd situation isn't resolved.

You can request a dump of all your Reddit data here under EU GDPR or California CCPA.

June 30th is my date. I have a 13 year old account and a 8 year old account. I'm considering options what to do with the accounts. I'm split between selling them or nuking all the comments and deleting them.

I’ve deleted all my content (by hand—there wasn’t much), and I plan to delete my account on June 30 before Apollo stops working.

Currently using 'Redacted' app on Android to purge my musing. Automated for the win.

Already used Redacted to remove all posts and comments but still lurking as long as Boost is working. It's not easy to let go

Just did it, no ragrets

Did it yesterday, and also removed all my comments and posts, but I didn't post that often - I have probably made 30-40 comments and posts in 2 years. However, I still use Reddit on my phone with Relay but logged out. When Reddit shuts down its free API I'll probably switch fully to Fediverse.

I will delete it when Sync for Reddit cannot be used anymore. But I will stop using reddit anyway

I can't because there are no bulgarians on lemmy, I need r/bulgaria

I haven't and I won't. As much as I hate the API changes and as much as I hate being forced to use the terrible official app, there are communities on Reddit that won't be going dark indefinitely that I am an active part of and wish to remain part of.

Lemmy is a great concept in theory, but in practice it leads to what was a single community on Reddit being spread over several instances. A community with tens of thousands on Reddit might find a few communities spread over a handful of instances and because a community doesn't show up in the Communities list under All until someone does the !community@instance.domain command for that specific community (meaning they physically went to other instances to find that community on that other instance and then in practice manually added it to the list)

This also means that as the amount of instances grows, specific communities will become even harder to find as the instances themselves become more obscure and hard to find.

I have a lot of things saved so I'll probably keep it until I can extract what I want to keep.

i deleted it when they got rid of chapo lol 🤷‍♀️

i feel like my decision has been vindicated

I cleared my post and comment history. I probably will delete my account after the free API shuts down.

I had been without a Reddit account for a while using Infinity (3rd party app) without being logged in. I didn't care about being able to post of comment but it's much more fun on Lemmy! Lemmy is much nicer than Reddit in my opinion and I'll end up stopping using Reddit completely

Not yet. I'm waiting to see if Reddit will send me my data. Then, even if they don't, I'll delete my posts and comments by the end of the month.

I nuked both of my alts, but I haven't been able to pull the trigger on the 10 year old main account yet.

Maybe once I get the rest of my recipes and stuff over here I'll scorch the earth, but there are still too many memories in there.

I did today. My account was about 5.5 years old and I have to admit it was somewhat hard at the beginning. But to be honest I already don’t care anymore.

That API stuff was a huge shitshow that made me really angry. I even would have paid a subscription to be able to keep using Apollo. But if Reddit decides to bring people out of business they are not going to do business with me either.

I didn't quit Reddit. Reddit banned my favorite community because the shitposts were making their embedded national security goons too nervous. This was nearly 3 years ago.

I'm seeing it out. Once old.reddit is gone then I'll pretty much have to.

I deleted the apps on my phone and my ipad so I don't get any push notifications. I will probably only post on here. There are some communities I kinda rely on when it comes to information, tutorials etc. that are not really existing here. So I'm trying to kinda slowly move everything over here as far as I can do that. Hoping that more and more communites will be coming over too.

I honestly prefer the interface and how clean everything is here. Makes me wanna use reddit as little as possible lmao