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Reddit Migration

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### About Community Tracking and helping #redditmigration to Kbin and the Fediverse. Say hello to the decentralized and open future. To see latest reeddit blackout info, see here: https://reddark.untone.uk/

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This was a really hard decision for me but I purged all my posts, votes and comments via Shreddit. I then deleted all my accounts. I've been on Reddit since it was just a baby website. I love Reddit, the friends and the communities I was involved in changed my life for the better.

We'll see how it goes but the only way we are going to win this fight is to walk away from Reddit. We have to send a message to them and the only way to do that is to hit them where it really hurts, right in the wallet.

Change is a good thing and I am ready to embrace it. I'm all in on kbin now. Let's see where we go from here 🍻

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Please check that your comments and accounts stay deleted! Apparently Reddit is restoring deleted comments.

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

This has to be bumped up higher, I think people are still deleting their accounts before making sure their comments are either staying deleted or rewritten!!!

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

Social media comes, and social media goes. Reddit.has peaked and will join the others in the dustbin of failed public offerings.

As it began, so shall it end: a snoo in a strange land.

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

Deleted my 1yo alt and my 12yo reddit account. Don't really use third party apps, but I their whole attitude was awful and it's not like thing are going to get better there.

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

This doesn’t just send a message to Reddit. In fact, Reddit is failing to heed the lessons of history to their own current detriment and ultimate demise.

Community is everything in this landscape. Treat your user base like shit at your own peril.

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

Same. Just did it today. I've also been on reddit since the beginning and I'm done.

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

I did it after the "noise" memo leaked. 12+ years of Reddit gone. I left Digg in the Exodus and I'm not taking Reddit's shit either.

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

Yup me too. Just deleted with a nice "fuck you spez" parting message

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

I deleted all, all, I'd rather not be part of the next scrapping. In any case I can build my own AI with my own comments for my own personal gain if I want, at least I consented to that.

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

Can you provide a link to the "noise" memo that was leaked? I must've missed it because I haven't heard of this. If it convinced you and was the final straw to delete your account, I'd be interested in seeing it as well

I'm more set on overriding all my comments, but I'm still on the fence about deleting the whole account. At least, once I know with 100% certainty that they won't be reverted back to their original states (if possible)

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

My account is being shredded as we speak. 1500 comments and counting.

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

I haven't deleted my accounts yet, but I blocked reddit in my router firewall. This past week I found myself repeatedly going there without thinking, like a genuine addiction.

https://i.imgur.com/5S1NzP1.jpg

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

I didn't realize until the blackout how bad Google search results are without Reddit. Everything from finding video game hints to recommendations on the best bicycle seats... All the best, trustworthy content was from users on Reddit.

I've compromised by using Google cached search results to avoid giving Reddit views.

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

Now the arduous but necessary task of making the Fediverse the place for those results instead.

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

Imagine being Aaron Schwartz, alive, today...

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

Same. Well done!!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I also did this. 5yrs and 1k karma.

I'm not that optimistic about lemmy's future (especially after lemmy.world defederation on beehaw), but I'm glad to be here.

If it won't work, I'll just stop wasting my time on reading things I don't need. If it will, that'll be cool.

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

In a general sense I'm in favor of the community using the tools that are fully integrated to curate their experiences. If you desperately need lemmy.world and beehaw you can sign up someplace else, that doesn't block either. They don't have to deal with each other, and your experience continues on.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've started seeing threads on reddit now stating that deleted/edited comments are getting reverted to their original forms. This includes ones done from Shreddit and PowerDeleteSuite etc.

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

It happened to me three times after using PDS. I ended up using a Tampermonkey script called Spaz's Reddit Delete, which also scrambles all comments and then deletes them, with an appropriate window of time between each action to avoid triggering any anti-spam response. This seems to have done the trick, and my comments or submissions haven't reappeared.

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

Honestly it kinda just looks like server issues to me with the delete request getting dropped before completion or something, but still showing correctly client-side until re-loaded.

That said, I've edited all my comments to gibberish and left them up in that state. I'll check and see if any are back in a week or two.

EDIT: I take it back, it's not server issues.
EDIT2: It seems like comments in private subs didn't properly save the edits.