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I did last weekend, and 8 year old Reddit account plus my Twitter account, deleted all content I've ever published. I also uninstalled RiF and Twitter.
It felt weird but now it's liberating. I just check Jerboa and Tusky from time to time and I feel that Beehaw and lgbt.tech are such open places, far from the toxicity of Reddit and Twitter.
I feel you, but I know you'll feel better again soon! πβ€οΈ
13 years account here. Iβve been postponing doing the same thing. In the last months Iβve grown opposed to Facebook, then Twitter, then finally Reddit. Iβve come to the conclusion that any form of corporate social media is harmful to individuals and communities.
Every discussion youβve had has contributed to how you are today and that remains.
I know how you feel. Seeing how much i had contributed to them over the years was crazy. I overwrote all mine with a protest message and several hours later deleted the accounts. The site has changed for the worse with just all of us taking steps like this
Thatβs a great idea, I think I wanna steal it
Just make sure to go back in a day or two to make sure your comments/posts stay deleted. Reddit restored all my posts/comments that I edited using Power Delete Suite is back to its original content.
Another report of deleted Reddit comments/submissions being restored: https://mastodon.social/@[email protected]/110553478094196259
I had a few posts I left up, and I found that comments from when I had previously chatted with people were still there despite having a 100% cleared comment history. So, I'm wondering if a bunch of my old comments are actually out there, even though my profile says I have none.
13 years here, I nuked all the comments with Redact, but today I checked my comments on reddit and I still have a few dozens, so I renuked them. I will see tomorrow if some comments reappear?
I think I'll keep my account, but logoff from everywhere
EDIT: I think all the comments behind private sub cannot be deleted, this is why this morning the tool found new ones
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Gonna do the same. Nuke all my comments and keep the account. Just change the password to something unintelligible.
You need subs to not be private to see/delete comments on them. So I'd recommend waiting for those are are going to come back to come back, then re-shred the posts. If that is your goal.
If you use Redact.dev, you can automate/schedule this process.
went through and deleted everything I could on my profile. I don't feel bad about it I killed all my other social media accounts years ago. Life is easier that way for sure.
unfortunately I cant seem to actually delete the account itself though. that button just results in "Something went wrong while deleting your account. Come back later and try again." How convenient that must be for their sales data.
if anyone knows how to get around that please share
figured it out. got to go through the old.reddit.com to do this apparently.
Good to know, thank you!
I'll be doing this for my Reddit account before the 30th rolls around and these deletion bots stop working.
Imagine all the real life conversations you have had that isn't documented in any way and you have forgotten ever took place. People that you dont even know you've forgotten. That is a part of life and even if old conversations are valuable, they are not as valuable as making new ones.
You post is almost a poem. It was nice to read.
If I can offer a different more positive view. You connected with other humans, and shared your experiences and love for your hobbies. Yes it happened on reddit, but it can happen again somewhere else.
I know this is quoted to death but here are some wise words from Dr. Seuss:
It's bittersweet to me, I love that there is new opportunities ahead and I am excited to see where technology goes from here, but there is that sadness that comes from seeing something you really loved be destroyed. I have seen things come and go so many times, I try to look on the bright side, and accept the change. No use dwelling on something you can't personally change.
I spent so much time there on reddit spreading knowledge of the things I had experience with and was passionate about (mostly piercing care, plant care, and science related stuff, which Ill admit is a pretty random combination of things).
For now, I can't bring myself to delete it.
But I do look forward to spreading the things I learned to a brand new audience, so Im keeping my head high even if Im sad its come to this
My account was 14 years old and I had that same feeling. I've been pretty disgruntled with Reddit for nearly a decade, so I'm more surprised that I managed to stick with that site for so long.
Please check that your comments and accounts stay deleted!
It seems Reddit is restoring deleted comments.
yeah mine were restored after 1-2 days
I had used the power delete suite, so they must be tracking if users are submitting hundreds of delete requests in a small time window
Rando internet hug
I still have my account left because I'm an incurable optimist. Or rather, realist. Spaz can't keep getting away with this shit forever you know? At some point, the board is going to look at his childish antics disguised as corporate governance and say "Hey, this guy is a big fat phony!" and then.. his goose is going to be cooked.
Still, deleting tons of shit is rough. I did the same for my Digg account which had a few years on it.
But .. see it like this, you used your voice and you said "fuck you!" and left. That counts for something.
The fediverse and lemmingverse reminds me of how Reddit used to be. Sure, fewer posts, but much more salience. More actual content instead of repost bots. Less Onlyfans and more actual horny people posting stuff. More nerds and less HURR DURR retards.
I know I jumped off the cliff to be with you fellow Lemmings, but damn if it isn't fun!
I deleted all of the posts and comments on my 10 year-old account. After seeing what established Reddit accounts are going for on eBay, I'm considering selling.
Beautifully written, and moving. I think I understand how you feel, and I empathize with you.
As much as I'm unhappy with reddit I don't think I could bring myself to delete my comments. Seems like a loss for the internet at large to do so, nothing more frustrating to be searching for help on a topic only to find that the solution was removed.
I did this earlier this week to my 10yr old account. I used redact to delete my posts and comments as well. I didnt think it was fair since I'm one of those Apollo users.
I'm a nostalgic person by nature. My impulse has always been to save rather than delete. I could never do this. In fact, I did the opposite; I made a GDPR request for my data and ran a script to download all of the posts still available in the API. No response on the GDPR request yet but they're allowed time.
I deleted my 11 year old reddit account just an hour ago. I first overwrote all comments with one promoting lemmy with instructions on how to choose an instance.
I nuked a 13- and an 11-year old account yesterday after commenting over then deleting each comment. I'm a bit sad, but if I'm honest, I've been wanting a reason to drop reddit for a while now. It just hasn't been the same in a long time. It's still young here, but I like what this has the potential to become rather than what might have been if things were different over there. Ever onward!
I can't bring myself to delete stuff like that, in the same way that I don't like throwing away books. If I post less on Reddit so be it, and if I eventually stop then meh, but I want my post history to still be there.
doing the same as we speak. My replacement text is "Moved to Lemmy because Reddit has become greedy with data generated by their community"
Similar feelings here, but we can make new content! https://youtube.com/shorts/dN5sn37vNGs?feature=share
can anyone recommend an easy tool to do this? I don't want to leave anything behind they can scrape and profit from.
I also did this, 6 years old account, all gone.
It was a great decision cause now I can contribute here
Nope, I did the same yesterday without looking back. I feel happy not to use this corporate crap anymore.
For those asking, I used redact.dev to delete my stuff. It's available on lots of platforms including mobile.
here's a question, wouldn't it be more impactful to encourage users to redact with a protest statement promoting fedverse first?
assuming they're doing a 30 day backup scheme then this becomes part of their working set going forward. messing with the data in this way especially if we can do it in volume might make it harder for LLMs to extract useful information from our noise.
we then can then start deleting our posts as a second protest after that.
thoughts?
I really just wanted to be done and gone from reddit, to be honest. My reaction when something like this happens isn't to make a big scene. I just delete my content and vanish into the ether. Only time I actually made a farewell post was Facebook, and that was just to let my friends/family know how to continue to contact me. With Twitter I just nuked my posts and killed the account.
Reddit can probably filter/censor any sort of fediverse spam anyway, so it just seemed like extra steps at this point.
I donβt delete my data (posts) because once you google a problem and you realize that a solution that you are looking at is written by you few years back you know you do a good job and you could be saving your future self an headache.
Personally, I always deleted and re-created accounts after a year at most. Still have my current but I've hardly used it since migrating.
Yeah. I'm feeling like doing the same. I did not post much, and what I did, did not gain much traction. But I think it's time to leave that place.