Nuking my 12yr/100k karma Reddit Account. : reddit

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Nuking my 12yr/100k karma Reddit Account. (lemmy.world)

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You need to tell this to more people since they shouldn't destroy valuable information.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

all my comments were on removed subs so i dont think theyre all that valuable

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you have evidence of reddit replacing comments?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for pointing out that there may be more to this, I dug into it a bit more. A few users reported that their comments/posts were being restored:

@[email protected] https://lemmy.ml/post/1290893

@[email protected] https://lemmy.ml/comment/690447

It looks like it could be related to issues with Powerdelete, or else issues with being able to delete comments while a sub is/was set to private. https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/34112/Updated-Reddit-is-quietly-restoring-deleted-AND-overwritten-posts-and

However, there is also a user that reported that their manually deleted posts came back @[email protected] https://mstdn.social/@sukarn/110553511800817413 Which could be related to Reddit performing maintenance on the servers.

Either way it's probably worth it to hold onto your account for a while longer to verify that there weren't any issues with your posts/comments being deleted.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Thanks for that :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I've been replacing my posts with gibberish (google "gibberish generator") and a link to lemmy.

Be aware that /r/AskReddit has some automation that will delete your post if they detect some script. I don't know how it works, but so far the trigger for me seems to be any link to the /r/apolloapp post where Christian posts his call logs.