I also did this, 6 years old account, all gone.
It was a great decision cause now I can contribute here
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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.
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.
I was going to overwrite mine after 14 years but a significant event made me hold off. My home city in the UK has been in the news for all the wrong reasons and r/nottingham is useful to keep up with events without having to trawl through the mainstream media and all the right-wing trolling that follows them. Maybe next week when I get back home and things have calmed down.
What was the Name of the Tool?
Redact
Nope, I did the same yesterday without looking back. I feel happy not to use this corporate crap anymore.
Radical problems require radical solutions.
I wasn't an active Redditor, and so far I like this community much better. Might change as the place gets more and more inhibitors.
I had this feeling when deleting another social media account. On a good note, it's fleeting. Now most are in the void for me.
Why delete though? Its all still there in Reddit's database.
This is called soft delete, if they are a EU resident, they can claim GDPR and get it all wiped, getting "forgotten" is a right.
Nice rights! Its probably harder to exercise than you'd think. Has anyone tried for Reddit?
Not at all, I love deleting and forgetting old stuff
Geez you didn’t save the content beforehand? I would absolutely have found a way to archive that stuff first
I am struggling to go and do it myself but this helps seeing someone with 12 years of history. Would love to be able to download the 10,000+ pages of stuff I wrote though to not lose it forever.
You can. Reddit will let you request a dump of your data. It's what I'm doing on my 11 yr old account, and once I have that for my own archives I'll nuke the account.
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I couldn't truly nuke my account. I'm studying for mcat and r/MCAT has a ton of better explanations for aamc (test maker) practice tests.
I sort use Lemmy 90% and reddit 10%.
I also installed blacklist to filter out reddit content (their is a toggle to show hidden reddit searches in worst case if needed). This kinda helps give visibility to other sites.
Over a decade on my account, not sure the actual year. I won't be nuking my account, personally. I'm happy with kbin for now and haven't opened reddit since Monday.
Same here for reddit. I won't remove my account just yet, but have unsubbed from a lot of fluff subs I was a part of.
Once RiF goes away I'll use desktop when needed for searches, but I never actually sit on it at a desktop. I'm hopeful all subs I use will come over, but some may not. Namely homelab and homelabsales.