F's in the chat

I was on Reddit every day for 14+ years. July 1st I came to Lemmy and never looked back.
- Same. Longest I'd gone without commenting on reddit for a decade straight is 3 days. Now the longest is...since July 1st and counting.
  
  I said I would leave my just-turned 15-year-old account after June 30th, received a lot of fomo jibe, and have only been back when I've needed to update the social links of my profile with new Fediverse replacement accounts.
  Good riddance.
- I miss the toxicity. I miss the inside jokes... I miss shitty watercolours. I miss the gore. I miss the profound comments. I miss the extremely detailed and informative answers to the most rudiment question.
  Here is just: capitalism bad / Landlords suck / Linux / Chromium sux / Atheism
  Don't get me wrong, I love these topics, but it's just that...
  I found another website where I make my daily blog, but now I'm wasting even more time online....
  
  Here is just: capitalism bad / Landlords suck
  You're in a meme community that's hosted on an instance started by Marxist-leninists. Of course you're going to see a lot of that. Have you tried to search for communities on other instances? I'm on Kbin, and this is one of many fediverse-wide communities I'm subscribed to from there. I don't get the constant politics and circlejerking on some other instances.
  
  you… miss the toxicity…
  
  ...when does the narwal bacon.... They were the good times. Oh well.

F
...uck Spez

I was there for 12 years! Not that it’s a competition. It was a very weird transition at first.
- Same. It was actually a big enough change to routine that it took a few weeks to stop automatically opening Reddit.
  
  I had to put the Lemmy app where Baconreader used to be 😢
  
  I moved the lemmy icon to where reddit was on my browser's top bar. That helped a lot.
  
  Hol up, you were using the reddit app / website and still left? Good on you! For most of us clicking on our reddit browsers simply brought up nothing so the routine was quickly broken (removed RIF).
- 11 years and 3 days with well over 650k karma, before The Wipe for me. Power deleted all posts and comments.
  
  Have you checked to see if Reddit un-deleted them? I’ve heard a few cases of people mass deleting their posts/comments, only for them to reappear a few days later
- I was on there for a similar amount of time and was permanently banned for badmouthing the British royal family. Well, suggesting that the problem if British royalty could be solved with bricks, which are cheaper than guillotines.
  The most annoying thing was that they treated that as some sort of actionable threat of violence.
  The thought of that sniveling reporter and admin getting all uppity because I threatened their lords...
  Ugh...
- Same dude.
  Honestly though its been easier than I thought. My screen time is way down and I have found lots of free time.

Then reddit admins use the time stone and all your comments are restored. You’ll need the GDPR stone to do it permanently.

I’d rather edit every single post / comment to say “Fuck u/spez” but I don’t know how to use the API to do that and I don’t have the time to commit to that project :/
- Lol some subreddits had changed their automod to warn you for changing your comments to "fuck Spez"
  I got one that sorta said "oh you are editing all your old comments before leaving reddit? Let me ban you to help you not come back"
  Then they banned me not even 10 minutes before I deleted my account. It was such a pathetic sounding message lmfao.
  
  @MrBuscemi
  Same energy as "You can't break up with me because I'm breaking up with you!"
  
  The funny thing is being banned from a subreddit doesn't even stop you from continuing to edit your old comments in that subreddit. You just can't make any new ones.
- Good suggestion. My next Selenium project may begin this Saturday.
  
  /remindme
  
  Make sure to also link to Lemmy. 👍
- I used Redact to do it automatically, on my 13 years old account
- PowerDeleteSuite if it still works
- I'm bored. Can I write you the code?
  
  Do it for the rest of us

5 yrs? Those are rookie numbers. I "deleted" mine of 10+ years. Guess who gave a fuck? Only me. Here I am on lemmy rebuilding the dream. Plz upvvote and subscribe. Plz. K thx ♥️
- 9 years for me. I wiped my comment and post history, but didn't delete it because all that does it take away any control you have if they decide to restore it.
- Pfffft, I had mine for 35 years
  🫣

F in the chat
- Nice username lol

I had like 10 Reddit Accounts over the past years
- Right? Same here. I don't understand how people cherish their Reddit accounts so much.

Nixed my account. Not missing it.

whenever I delete old accounts I always make a gdpr request on all my data, does anyone else do that?
- That's what I did before I overwrote and deleted my reddit comments. Left the account active just so I can make sure it stays that way
- I do.

I refuse to delete my writing account I started 12 years ago in case someone tries to steal my content again.
- I want to leave all my posts that call out hate but deleting everything else.

Deleted my 8 year old account and posts just last week. Feels great man.

@balderdash9 9 year old account...gone. I can't believe how much it took me to do that. The day after they started their new charges. I really held out hope that they would see reason, like Hasbro with the whole license issue. Shame. Goodbye Reddit. Burn in hell.
- The difference with the Hasbro D&D license though is the cliche "you are the product" quote. Hasbro needs to sell D&D products to the people who they upset, but Reddit only needs to sell impressions to advertisers who didn't care about the API.

I got perma banned off of reddit for commenting on a sub that I had been banned from, and instead of them just not letting my comment post - they instead basically ban you for posting again.
So if you get banned of a sub on reddit and forget because...who cares.... You get yourself perma'd for ban evasion.
I got banned from like a news sub for saying "surprise not everyone shares your political opinion, of course there's dissent".
That's when reddit for me went absolutely to shit. Just getting blacklisted by mods who are reading into everything.
- Yep. Bunch of echo chambers honestly. Mods will ban you literally for questioning the modding standards of certain communities. Which means only people who agree are allowed in; there's no way to change the rules. Power hungry fucks.

made it all the way into r/ascension or whatever the 1 million karma club is called, only to find it was as vapid as the rest of Reddit.

It’s such a relief knowing that Lemmy can’t get fucked up by some shill.
If I don’t like this instance I literally pick up my bat and ball and go to the next one over. Same experience there except without the person/people I don’t like.

Deleted facebook last year and reddit this year. Felt so good.

If I could remember my password, I'd delete mine in a heartbeat

Most deletion tools only view the profile pages, they have a 1k non refreshing cap. So only 1k newest, 1k top etc. . So otherwise delete account just makes the rest against a [deleted] user the posts are all still there.

16 yo acct, barely touched it after joining hexbear (chapo.chat at that time) in late 2020
they probably keep an archive at the NSA anyway

I went to check it out recently and I don’t recognize it anymore. Spending some time away was good for me. 11 years and it’s gone.

Until spez brings them back...

Same, but I was snapped out of existence for "violating the rules". For talking about shooting paper targets at a gun range. apparently that is threatening violence.

I didn't delete my account or any of my posts when I left Reddit. Felt too much like punishing Reddit users and searchers of random information and not enough like punishing Spez.
I dunno. Aside from "fuck Spez" (which, don't get me wrong, I can't say is entirely unappealing), what's the argument to be made for deleting your post history via something like PowerDeleteSuite rather than just leaving and never visiting Reddit again?
- The argument I've heard is that reddit will be monetizing its user generated data by allowing AI programs to access it.
  
  Yeah, that seems a little compelling, except that they've demonstrated that they keep deleted post content. If they'd be sleazy enough to train AIs on our not-deleted content, they'd probably be sleazy enough to train AIs on our deleted posts as well.
- Partly to reduce Reddit's reputation as the place to find answers for obscure problems, and partly to encourage neutral users to search for alternatives.
  I think that deleters will not make a mind breaking difference, but the idea is to remove and rebuild that information other places.
  With that said, if any of you had posted some obscure but wildly useful information on Reddit, please consider making a post in the relevant Lemmy community (or stack overflow, or wherever) with the solution.
- It's not that important. People are putting far too much value into a forum account.
- I debated whether or not I should wipe my post/comment history, but ultimately I decided that I just didn't want reddit to have anything I created, no matter how worthless it is.

Is there a way to download my saved items? I haven't gotten around to deleting yet and want to use PDS to do it thoroughly.
- Power Delete Suite has the option to save a local backup before nuking your posts/comments from orbit.