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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'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 deleted my accounts every few years anyway

[–] [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

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

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

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

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

My plan is to drop and delete Reddit on June 30th.

What I have not figured out yet, is where to post my goodbye. Any ideas?

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

No, but I'm migrating most of my usage here. Some small subreddits will probably never be replicated here and I like talking about smaller games and bands sometimes.

[–] [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

I see no particular need to delete my account or any of its content, personally. I know it's everybody's own decision but frankly it strikes me as kind of needlessly destructive, like torching a restaurant because you no longer enjoy eating there. Other people still do, there's no reason to take it from them.

If Reddit evolves in such a way that I no longer find it useful or enjoy going there, I'll just stop. I'm actually happy if my old data remains useful to others - lots of times I go searching Google for information and wind up in an old Reddit thread, for example.

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

Doubt Ill ever delete it, just abandon it.

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

I don’t think I’m going to delete, but I don’t think I will engage.

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

I've deleted my comments and posts and find Reddit then restored them a few hours later.

So I've written some Python to delete them automatically and have it run on a schedule. Fuck 'em. A week later and Reddit are still restoring my data for the script to delete.

[–] [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 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

Done some weeks ago already. Reddit is increasingly suffering from what Doctorow calls enshittyfication and that led me to delete my account.

[–] [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 think I'm still holding out hope that they will come to their senses, but I'll probably delete eventually.

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

Just waiting on a data request download for submissions (through reddits data request if there isn't a faster way) and noting/making my last few communities on Lemmy, then I'll be on my way out. Didn't expect to clear it this soon but life hits pretty fast sometimes.

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

I still have my account and I don't plan on deleting but much like my Twitter account it'll just be there. I'll check it for the few people and communities that stay behind.

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

I plan to, and almost certainly will by the end of the month.
I'm sticking around just long enough to see how the blackout goes and to watch a bit of the resulting dumpster fire after tho.

RIP to RIF

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

I don't really want to delete content potential googlers could stumble upon and be helped by, but I've replaced the Relay shortcut on my homescreen with a Jerboa shortcut. That's as good as deleted cause that's all I access reddit through.

[–] [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

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 (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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