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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My plan is to unsub from subreddits as I find comparable communities here until eventually there is nothing left in my feed to keep me at Reddit.
this is a pretty decent approach. glad you are here :-)
Thank you, I’m happy to be here. So tired of corporations ruining everything.
After that horrible AMA, I stopped using it, what an absolute train wreck
Just did it. removed everything with the PowerDelete script, then deleted my 12 year old account. Sad. I deleted all comments, too. Like many people here I find it sad, that this information is gone, but I do not want to give reddit traffic for my personal content.
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’ve deleted all the posts in my 12 year account but I find it hard to nuke the whole account.
They sure aren’t going to make any more money off of me though.
How did you delete all posts? (My account is also ~12 years old and I would like to start to clean it. Once that is done, I will nuke the account.)
I deleted my throwaways weeks ago, but I deleted my main account earlier today. I lurked more than I posted which I guess means I don’t have a lot of the history a lot of others have with their account but I posted every so often and had the account for years.
Even so, reddit has made it a place I don’t want to be, I want them to know that (by falling user numbers) and I also worry reddit will make it more difficult in the future to get rid of your account.
I’m waiting to see what happens; they’ve announced the API screw-over of the 3rd party apps, but if the protests on the 12th+ blackout the site (you can’t bill advertisers if there ain’t no eyeballs) there might be some concession.
Look, Reddit hasn’t been profitable - yet. The VCs who dumped in 1.3Bn bucks want it back, and I don’t begrudge anyone for trying to make their own ham sandwich; we all gotta eat. My opinion is that the popular 3rd party app developers and API users should have been consulted and involved in the decision-making. And face it: apart from what we’ve paid to our favourite app developers we’ve received an awesome internet community for zero cost for over a decade (some of us anyway)!
How hard is it to go to the Apollo guy or the RiF folks and say: hey. we appreciate you making awesome apps. We need to start earning money. But you too need to make money. How can we work together, to maybe put a few more ads, or ad revenue generating “premium” features without screwing each other over, or our users?
So Ill wait to see what happens in the coming week and ride Reddit-is-Fun out to the bitter end and the lights go out and then probably delete my Reddit account then. But I’ve made the first steps. Im here ain’t I?
Oh, and put in a request now to get an archive of all your Reddit content. I suspect that department will be quite busy in the coming weeks. https://www.reddit.com/settings/data-request
Im eager to see what form it comes in. If my posts and comments come with some context around them then Im fine with just deleting my account. I hope the links are permalinks so the backreferences to REddit stay intact (AND, you don’t need the API to access, you could essentially “scrape” the context of your posts). I’ve been trying to find a way to search my own comments and posts for years (there are tools, but I want an OFFLINE archive of my stuff - I frequently find myself replying to someone and going hey wait Ive already answered this, now where did I put that comment…
iamthatis (Apollo) even said he could do it with a bit more time after the initial shock, some negotiation etc, he was willing to try if Reddit would throw him anything at all so it was possible. But Reddit instead shut down all communication then lied about what happened
Yeah, I like how they tried to throw him under the bus. Terrible that, Canada being single party consent states/provinces for recording phone conversations.
Whups.
No, there’s too many little niche subreddits that lemmy doesn’t even come close to replicating. I have been using the official reddit app for the better part of a year so I’m not personally affected by the ban on 3rd party apps.
Not yet but I haven’t used it since the Apollo drama.
I think i’ll nuke mine after the AMA. Just one more hour!
Edit: its gone
🫡 may your future be bright and the wind at your back!
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.
UPDATE: I pulled the plug
Please don’t delete your Reddit account. It is of minimal impact to Reddit. Keeping a database of users and their posts is far less resourceintensive then actually serving them, Reddit won’t care.
It does however screw ppl over when googling questions. We all know that adding site:reddit.com in google search is pretty much a must at this point when searching for solutions to obscure problems. Delete that and a bunch of potentially useful info is lost forever, and Reddit soldiers on without a care in the world.
If you insist upon deleting all your Reddit data, please archive it first, so valuable info isnt lost forever.
It does however screw ppl over when googling questions
isn’t that the point? your content drives traffic to the website. Removing said content takes traffic away from reddit.
Yeah, perhaps i should’ve been clearer in my og comment. What im referring to as content that matters is stuff like snippets of code, solutions software/hardware problems, useful life advice. Obscure content that isn’t found anywhere else on the web.
If you look at what drives the largest amount of traffic on Reddit, its all reposted content from various other sites, nothing we can’t find elsewere. I wouldn’t mind that type of content being removed as it can be found elsewhere. I just care about niche stuff.
I feel you on this and I am torn. the abuse by reddit centers around treating user content and the users themselves as an owned asset. burning your own content with fire is a valid protest with sort term pain and potential long term gain for everyone.
my question is, what happens when reddit starts to restore user content with no link back to the original content creator account? I have not looked at the current reddit ToS. Does reddit legally think they own your content?
search engine indexes eventually age out on dead content and, hopefully, 12+ months on “lemmy:” will be a thing.
Agreed there, working in IT/DevOps I commonly find answers to technical problems by reading reddit threads. I don’t really care if people delete memes, pictures of cats, stuff like that… But please keep the actual helpful knowledge.
I thought the point was to remove the valuable content, not the cost of resources to Reddit? Valuable content means consumer views, and consumer views attract advertisers, and advertisers generate revenue, which Reddit does care about. If I’d actually generated any content of lasting value over there, I’d delete it and repost it here.
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.
I didn’t delete my account, but my local community and I have switched to Discord and Lemmy. I think I’m now spending more time on these two services than on Reddit.
