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Just deleted my ~13 year old account, I was never attached to it much, mostly lurked on subreddits that I enjoyed. Looking to be more active on lemmy though!

Im still high on hopium

Couple of weeks ago I got permanently suspended from reddit. I've been a user for 11 years, they suspended my 11 year old account.

Why? Here's why.

It was in worldnews sub, you probably will remember the video where a cop kills a guy who's threatening others to commit suicide.

All I said was this:

"Sir you cannot kill yourself, that's our job"

BAM. Permanently banned for threatening and spreading violence. It's unbelievable. Mods think they're gods, so do admins. Fuck reddit ,I hope they collapse like WTT building.

I deleted my throwaways weeks ago, but I deleted my main account earlier today. I lurked more than I posted which I guess means I don't have a lot of the history a lot of others have with their account but I posted every so often and had the account for years.

Even so, reddit has made it a place I don't want to be, I want them to know that (by falling user numbers) and I also worry reddit will make it more difficult in the future to get rid of your account.

I think I'll leave my Reddit account and not delete it. My account suddenly going silent, after 13 years of near-daily activity, at this of all times, ought to make the statement I wish to make.

I'm wondering whether I should post a goodbye message on my Reddit profile page with a link to my new home here on Lemmy. See if they have the audacity to ban me for “spamming” my own profile page. Even if they do, it'll be one of numerous accounts falsely banned for “spam” in the middle of a well-publicized uproar and mass migration away from Reddit, and that isn't fooling anyone. Either way, my statement is made.

Accounts are meaningless. Karma and upvotes are just buttons. They only hold meaning if you intentionally assign meaning to them. Just download the photos you’ve posted if you don’t have copies and be free of assigning real material qualities to fictional concepts, like some transient code that says your account is 6 years old with 1.6million karma.

I'm waiting on a data request for the rest of my history, though I did that 6mo ago for other reasons and still have it so if the delay is too long I'll just lose those months.

After that I'll probably keep my account for a while to spam about Lemmy until I get banned.

I did. The account was 7 years old. I'd deleted old comments a few times before, but this time i went all in and deleted everything and the account. I have an alt that I never posted from and rarely logged into. I'm going to delete it soon, just interested in what happens today and then probably delete it tonight.

I didn't quit Reddit. Reddit banned my favorite community because the shitposts were making their embedded national security goons too nervous. This was nearly 3 years ago.

Deleting the history was sad. I made backups of everything and pulled the trigger today, though I'm almost sad I won't be there to log-in tomorrow and see how barren it is with all the subreddits dark.

Defaced my old account and created this one. Not deleting just yet as I want my deface comments to inspire others to leave

I'm not deleting it yet, since some subs I can't let go haven't come to Lemmy yet. As soon as that happens or if those subs migrate elsewhere, I'll remove Reddit

as someone pointed out in this comment, I don't think deleting all the content we generated thoughout the years is a good idea. I still get replies on years old posts from people who had that same exact question, and the amount of information I actively find on reddit is crazy. Reddit won't care about deleted accounts and posts (and they will only be a minority anyway), and I think doing so is a disservice to every person on the web.

Unless you only posted in r/memes and r/askreddit lol

Also been on Reddit for more than 12 years now. But with recent development regarding third party apps, I've made my peace with it. As soon as those apps shut down, I'll abandon my Reddit account. However, I'll not be going to delete my post and comments, since I don't see any sense in doing so. Reddit will not care as some kind of protest, and my data should have already been scraped by dozens of search engines and AI-training companies anyway.

Already have

been on reddit for over 12 yeaars, but i always abandon my accounts after a few years and start new ones to avoid having too much personal info on one account. Im using Redact to currently delete all my comments from my newest account that is a little over 2 years old, still in the process of deleting, currently at 700… this is gonna take a while

edit: done, 1185 comments gone! now doing the same with the account before that, currently at 1100 and still going!

I just deleted mine. I figured if I can't really remember what I had saved, then I probably don't really need any of that stuff anyways.

Haven't yet. I'm going dark when everyone else does, and I will uninstall the Reddit app when my third party app stops working. But there are some things that I can't do on Lemmy, and don't expect to be able to do for quite a long time - not until the user base is much larger.

Don't think I'll go as far as deleting my account as it still holds some sentimental value to it (things nearly 12 years old at this point) but as for browsing / general usage, yes, I've fully switched to Lemmy as my daily site. While there are a few niche subreddits I'll probably still periodically check in on the sites been going downhill for years now, and the most recent AMA / API tomfuckery made me jump ship to greener pastures.

I will keep it and see. If Reddit decides to roll back the API changes and starts listening to the community, I'll probably keep using it. But if they don't, I'm conflicted. Deleting it would be nice, because they lose their interactions, posts and data, which is what makes them money. But there are also some posts with important answers to niche questions, and the random stranger looking that questions up in 3 years would also be affected. So for now, I'll probably leave it abandoned and I'll see if I delete it when they make some more stupid changes.

I think I’m going to on my next day off. During the blackout. See ya never spez!

Annoyingly, even thought I don't want to support Reddit. There is still going to be some useful things on Reddit, but I really hope most the community move over to here, or somewhere else.

I just deleted all my data from Reddit using Redact. Honestly, it's heartbreaking to delete all of my activity, but I'd still live

I’ve been a 10+ year user of Reddit with multiple accounts over the years. During that time, I’ve deleted accounts and created new ones for the sake of privacy. There is no value lost in these situations.

I deleted Boost three days ago. I'm still adjusting to the implosion of Twitter and this happens.

I'm waiting for the Relay app to go offline. My favourite subs aren't on Lemmy yet, and although I wouldn't mind helping out on another platform, I just don't have the time at the moment.

I'm not, at most I'm gonna park it and just never use it again. If they want to delete it, they'll have to introduce an inactive account deletion policy

I have been too lazy to sign in and do it. What is funny is that I had been using Infinity to browse anonymously, but got annoyed that I could not bookmark anything.

I made an account like a month or two ago, and have barely posted anything. I could have done without.

Yet, if Reddit was not fucking up, I may not have given Lemmy a second chance. I tried it before, but I swear most of the posts were meta. Talking about a platform does not make a platform appealing.

I haven't and I won't. As much as I hate the API changes and as much as I hate being forced to use the terrible official app, there are communities on Reddit that won't be going dark indefinitely that I am an active part of and wish to remain part of.

Lemmy is a great concept in theory, but in practice it leads to what was a single community on Reddit being spread over several instances. A community with tens of thousands on Reddit might find a few communities spread over a handful of instances and because a community doesn't show up in the Communities list under All until someone does the [email protected] command for that specific community (meaning they physically went to other instances to find that community on that other instance and then in practice manually added it to the list)

This also means that as the amount of instances grows, specific communities will become even harder to find as the instances themselves become more obscure and hard to find.

8 year old account just deleted, bye bye proffit driven communities. I really hope P2P and federated networks took over the internet and doom these data hoarders into oblivion

I think I’ll sell my account and donate to lemmy project

I was a reddit user for about 15 years. Deleted my account and post history yesterday — honestly haven’t missed it as much as I thought I would 🤷‍♂️

Not yet. I think Lemmy needs to mature a bit more and get more of the groups I'm interested in.

I'm exploring my options.

As long as old.reddit exists and there is a large community, I'll be 'stuck' with Reddit. I'm not there for the platform - I'm there for the people. I'll go where the people go.

As far as mobile usage goes, I don't know. Without an 'Apollo for Lemmy' or 'Lemmy is Fun' - I'm hanging around waiting for something to happen.

Reddit is the longest I've had a social media account after Facebook - pushing my 12th year. And I've participated in a lot of social media and message boards that came and went.

In my experience, websites sites die quickly when leadership prioritizes scraping profits over a user experience. And look, I completely understand and respect that companies need to earn revenue. However, it's a two-way relationship. Users will always flock to a more streamlined and accessible experience.

It's why Pandora > Shoutcast/iTunes Radio. It's why Spotify > Pandora. And it's why Netflix > Blockbuster. It's why after years of using Fark.com for news engagement, I joined Reddit. It gave me a far superior experience (not that Fark was ever bad).

I really like Lemmy. And I like the concept of federated spaces. But whether or not the concept is a big enough draw is really to be determined - especially without knowing what the mobile experience looks like.

All this to say.. I'll delete my account when it's no longer relevant. If I can get truly unique food and drink recommendations for my local city here, with enthusiastic participants all joining in the conversation - that's what I'll need to bury the past 12 years of online activity.

Just waiting for the Spez AMA shitshow and them I'm out

I will delete it when Sync for Reddit cannot be used anymore. But I will stop using reddit anyway

Currently using 'Redacted' app on Android to purge my musing. Automated for the win.

My account is still there but I haven't been back since creating an account here on sh.itjust.works. I don't plan on going back.