this post was submitted on 17 Jun 2023
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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] 22 points 1 year ago (6 children)

It’s crazy isn’t it? Six months in and Mastodon still hasn’t clicked for me, but six days here and I know I’m not going back to Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Same boat. But Twitter wasn't really my kind of social media anyway, maybe that's why Mastodon hasn't locked in?

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

It's the voting system that does it imo. When everyone just shouts random thoughts into the void hoping it goes viral the overall quality tends to be low. It makes for a decent RSS feed, but so do RSS feeds.

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

Yeah it took me a couple of tries before I got Twitter, so I’ve been sticking with Mastodon so far. This might well be what I was looking for all along though.

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

Twitter's only purpose is for blue checkmarks to scream into the void, but why do that when you can watch more fun versions of blue checkmarks shitpost on Lemmy instead?

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

Yeah, I never had a Twitter, and when I tried mastodon I got visually assaulted by a full screen picture of a wang, so I'm good here.

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

twitter is way more useful for following people or groups for news/updates than posting comments and forming communities

like a secondary social media platform you can link elsewhere

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

"The future is now old man!"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

My sentiments exactly! It feels like Lemmy is exploding. But like, a good explosion.

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

Same here. Mastodon is nice, but never felt as good as Lemmy for me. Additionally the content here is much more interesting for me.

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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 :)

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (5 children)

this makes my little archivist heart sad tbh. fuck spez.

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

I've done a data request with Reddit and will probably attempt to use a script to download my entire history (plus context, if possible) before July 1, then I'll see about overwriting the comments.

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

For that reason, I'm leaving mine up. Some might be useless, sure. But others I put some effort in. They're a little piece of Internet history, and I'm loath to set fire to that. I can still move to another platform while leaving my account intact.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I've already started moving over to lemmy but I'm also seeing some weird stuff on my Reddit account. I've had more 'Followers' sign on to my account in the last 2 weeks than I've seen in the last 3-4 years. I don't believe these are real followers. What would be the reason for this? Is Reddit playing some sort of statistics game with long-time Reddit accounts?

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

Probably trying to get you to stay because you have "fans" now.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Those are just bots, fake girls

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Thinking about doing the same to my acc with 250k+ karma.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Be sure and delete your posts/comments on your way out, no reason to leave behind free content.

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

It is accounts like ours that hurt when they leave. Accounts that have been producing OC content for years and just not consuming posts. My karma is 50/50 posts and comments.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You might want to hold off on the deletion part... After the comments about "reddit is restoring posts", I logged back in and saw my entire history had been restored after 24 hours. That includes messages I deleted years ago.

So, went through and re-ran power delete suite again. Next day, there were a few back.

Going the lather-rinse-repeat route with wiping them. I figure if they want to burn CPU cycles recovering my stuff, I can burn their CPU cycles deleting it again. At some point I'll see about sending them a support request to remove all of my data if it keeps occurring.

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

Something to keep in mind - any comments you made in subs that went private were not affected by PDS, because they were made private with the rest of the sub.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I had two accounts, one 8 years old and one 4 years old, with a combined karma of about 120k. Deleted them both earlier. Nothing of value was lost; the only "conversation" you can find on Reddit is salty arguments anyway.

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

This is oddly exciting, like being a child again. I hope it grows into something great. Hello from kbin!

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

I feel the fresh air of a new internet breeding <3

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

Unsubscribed from everthing last night, went to check today and i have 2 subs.

funny stuff

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

Could they have been private when you unsubbed from everything else, and therefore not appear in your list of subreddits?

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

I was never subscribed to them...creepy? and something else random.

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

Oh I see, that's super weird!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Should hold off on deleted your account for the time being. Many subs are polling users on which direction to take and I've been messaging mods with short comments to move to lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

10 years and 180,000 karma. I nuked all of my comments and all but a couple of my posts.

However, I have seen that some of my comments are still there on posts despite not showing up in my comment history.

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

Yeah, reddit does that. Kinda shady tbh. That's why it's recommended to use a script to scramble all old comments before deleting them

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

me:

  • 14y+ account,
  • 14k comment karma,
  • 0 comments,
  • 0 posts

not deleting my account, because i want to verify that my account stays empty.

see /r/beatniak

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

The mass exodus of Twitter and Reddit is like the burning of Alexandria, digital.

How many tutorials or sourced synopsis of events or other long form written media created by volunteers was lost to all of this? Its insanity.

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

That's why I use the archive.org extension, it archives every site I visit when is has not been archived in the last 7 days. So when a website goes you can still find it with the waybackmachine. The best part is the extension will also automatically redirect to the most recent backup when you click on a dead link.

Sorry for the bad English.

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

Don't forget to ask all your data under gdpr before wiping the account. I asked my data and after 2 weeks still it's not done so i have the feeling it's computationally expensive for them. So, the more users ask for data, the better

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

Good stuff. I deleted my account from 2011 the other day. This shit is stupid. Honestly already like kbin better anyway from a purely aesthetic perspective.

Reddit was fun while it lasted.

This is basically my attitude as well.

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

Wish I knew about shreddit or equivalents before checking out. Deleted my account, but years and years and thousands of karma worth of helpful content remains. Nowhere near as much as some of you guys -- but still years of thought and interaction and appreciated memes.

Much of the content I followed on reddit is now being posted in the fediverse as well. I'm very hopeful. Either way, not returning to Reddit no matter what. They are Digg to me.

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