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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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I value my content and the communities too much (despite its problems). I won't be deleting my account, and definitely not the content I posted.

I don't know yet what will happen to my usage and contribution level. Maybe it will only be on desktop PC from now on. We will see.

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

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.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I deleted the app but not my account. I thought about going back someday, but honestly I don't think I will. The last few days without reddits pessimistic view (at least how I see it) have actually been great.

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

I used the power delete suite to get a backup of all my shit, change all comments to "bye reddit" and then delete them. I'm done with reddit unless spez is gone and they back track waaaay the fuck back

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I've already deleted my reddit account a few days ago, never gonna use reddit for the foreseeable future.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I was always a lurker on Reddit so I don’t have to worry about purging post or comment history. I literally just haven’t gotten around to deleting it yet. I’ll miss the more local niche communities, but they’ll show up here and in other places in time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I've deleted my 16 years worth of comments and post history. I now spend my time between here and Tildes, and just go back to reddit watch it burn.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I'm not deleting, just abandoning. I had another person step up to mod the only community I was modding.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I'm out. Nixed mine. Honestly I was never a huge power user so it's not too big a loss.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I haven't yet, but will do on the 30th (after running Redact) before Sync stops working. What I have done is requested my data, removed all the posts and customisation from the subs I moderate (r/fryup being the biggest at 30k users) and set them to private.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (8 children)

I have. And i would love for it to be permanent, but that's going to depend on if Lemmy continues to build content. At the end of the day, I like this platform but without content I won't stay. Current momentum is looking fantastic though, and I will continue to comment and add my pieces!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Fully deleted. Never going back. To be honest, I was looking for a reason to get off. Glad it’s done.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I have not deleted it yet in hopes that they will roll back / cancel the api changes. I will not be using it until they do however. Lemmy seems like a really wholesome place so far.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I deleted my accounts every few years anyway

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Doubt Ill ever delete it, just abandon it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Deleted my account & the 3rd party app on my phone. I'm only checking select subreddits through Libreddit (until it stops working).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I’m waiting til after the blackout. Afterwords I’m pulling the plug.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I've been lurking on regularly cycled usernames, so that was pretty easily done. I haven't deleted Slide yet, but since it'll stop working on 30th, that's a given. I'm going to try my best to help build up the niche communities like hardware focused ones on lemmy

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I already deleted all my comments and posts and when the time comes and RIF is down I'll delete my whole account.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I’ll be deleting my 10+ year account once Apollo dies. May lurk in a few communities for a bit until there’s something similar here.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Mate I deleted my account as soon as they announced the API change.

I know that BS trajectory. Reddit has been killing off the mobile website for a while, probably going for the old reddit too.

Fuck 'em.

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

I will probably wait until r/programmerhumor goes dark to delete

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Just did it yesterday after realizing that the only real use Reddit got was bookmarking funny cats and doom scrolling. Twitter is next, just gotta save some "useful media" first

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I've barely got any posts on there, so I've kind of just left my account for now. I'll purge it later on once I feel like all of my niche communities I need are elsewhere.

I however, do not visit it more than once a day now though, and I expect that frequency to drop-off (primarily for local level news right now - too small to expect them to migrate elsewhere for now)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Already deleted all content a couple of years ago and was just lurking. Did notice that it became a chore, especially when boys became prevalent. Forced closure of 3rd party apps was the straw that broke this camels back. It’s a shame because it’s been roughly ten years or so and Reddit truly devolved

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