I just ran Power Delete Suite on all of my comments and self posts, stating they have been removed in protest.

On July 1st, I am deleting every comment and post, then closing my account. Reddit was fun while it lasted.

The fediverse is still raw, but I see massive protentional here, and I am ready for this journey with all of you.

  • mykl@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    2 years ago

    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.

  • flying_monkies@kbin.social
    4·
    2 years ago

    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.

    • lka1988@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 years ago

      Something to keep in mind - any comments you made in subs that went private were not affected by PDS, because they were made private with the rest of the sub.

  • NutWrench@lemm.eeEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    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?

  • polaroid@kbin.social
    3·
    2 years ago

    This is oddly exciting, like being a child again. I hope it grows into something great. Hello from kbin!

  • MrAegis@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    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.

    • grue@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      I’ve done a data request with Reddit and will probably attempt to use a script to download my entire history (plus context, if possible) before July 1, then I’ll see about overwriting the comments.

    • pingveno@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      For that reason, I’m leaving mine up. Some might be useless, sure. But others I put some effort in. They’re a little piece of Internet history, and I’m loath to set fire to that. I can still move to another platform while leaving my account intact.

  • beatniak@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    me:

    • 14y+ account,
    • 14k comment karma,
    • 0 comments,
    • 0 posts

    not deleting my account, because i want to verify that my account stays empty.

    see /r/beatniak

  • Duamerthrax@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    Should hold off on deleted your account for the time being. Many subs are polling users on which direction to take and I’ve been messaging mods with short comments to move to lemmy.

  • Omega@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    10 years and 180,000 karma. I nuked all of my comments and all but a couple of my posts.

    However, I have seen that some of my comments are still there on posts despite not showing up in my comment history.

    • SpookySnek@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Yeah, reddit does that. Kinda shady tbh. That’s why it’s recommended to use a script to scramble all old comments before deleting them

    • kylian0087@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      i have this exact same thing happening. Comments are deleted from my comment history but when going to the post that contains the comments they still show up. Can this be because of some form of caching going on?

  • Manwards84@feddit.ukEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    I had two accounts, one 8 years old and one 4 years old, with a combined karma of about 120k. Deleted them both earlier.

  • chainsawrobot@kbin.social
    1·
    2 years ago

    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.

    • Luccajan@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      2 years ago

      That’s why I use the archive.org extension, it archives every site I visit when is has not been archived in the last 7 days. So when a website goes you can still find it with the waybackmachine. The best part is the extension will also automatically redirect to the most recent backup when you click on a dead link.

      Sorry for the bad English.

  • Che Banana@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    Unsubscribed from everthing last night, went to check today and i have 2 subs.

    funny stuff