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What the title says.

A certain Mr. Huffman is making Reddit, which was once the frontpage of the internet (it still is, albeit for different reasons) a living hell for us.

Being in the coding/development trade as my profession, I am a huge advocate of anything FOSS, so when I found Lemmy, I did not look back.

Thanks to PowerDeleteSuite, I got rid of all my contents from Reddit. I did hear reasonings like "leave them there, for the benefits of lurkers" - but nope. I do not trust the sorting algorithm of Reddit anymore, I do not believe people will get to see my content if needed. So yep, blow 'em up.

I kept a close eye for a while on whether my posts and comments get resurrected (yes I did read about people experiencing this) - but I guess PDS did a good job for me.

So there you go, Snoo - you are cute - but creepy Stevie is fucking with your cuteness, and fucking with all of us.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I enjoy posts like this. Thanks.

I haven't deleted my reddit account, but I did delete several years of my comments and posts using PDS when they started charging for API calls. I'm surprised they haven't disabled that PDS tool, but glad to hear it still works.

I almost never log in to reddit anymore. When I do, it's to encourage folks to try lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I did go through a phase ( late August through early September) when I could not bear the sight of Reddit as a platform / corporation, but couldn't deny the fact either that Reddit is a treasure trove of valuable content.

(Although in the end my hate for Reddit's greed took over, and also the quality of the content there deteriorated slowly due to lack of good moderation - but I digress)

If you are going through such a phase - I might recommend giving Stealth app a try. It's FOSS and available on F-Droid (I am obviously assuming you are an Android user, please ignore if not) , it is one of the most beautiful apps I have ever used, and if someone asks what that app is about, I say "Stealth is to Reddit as NewPipe is to YouTube".

PS : I didn't develop Stealth. I just liked using it when I was still giving Reddit a chance ( but fuck spez )

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

Stealth is nice. It's all I need, since I'm just a lurker with no use for account now. Like it for the same reason as newpipe with being able to have a feed with no account. Loving the account free lifestyle these apps allow for a personal feed.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you have a lot of comments then even if the profile shows nothing it doesn't mean everything is deleted.

Found that out after I did a GDPR request and saw that due to reddit limitation the profile doesn't display all your comments. Only like the top 1000?

So I used shreddit which uses the reddit GDPR files to delete the files with the links provided.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Thanks. But I don't care anymore. I did all I could to get rid of my contents, but those will somewhere be on the internet (at least on wayback machine) - nothing on the internet is lost forever.