Just deleted my reddit account, along with all my posts and comments.
Gotta be honest, watching the titles of the posts getting deleted made me a bit nostalgic, because it was an almost 5yo account.
However, now that's old news, and my account is totally gone.
I won't miss it really, I like Lemmy a lot more.
I would experience negative emotions about Lemmy/k in if I found a reddit thread describing my problem and the lauded solution was changed to say the user moved there. It would not make me want to switch.
This also has the benefit of (eventually) changing your comments in the number of archives of Reddit that exist
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1JSYY0HbudmYYjnZaAMgf2y_GDFgHzZTolK6Yqaz6_kQ and this is the form to remove your data from pushshifts archive
God, I wish I knew about Redacto. I manually deleted my 11 year old account over the course of like 3 days.
the hero we deserve
What? How?
I wouldn't do it this way.
Doesn't fully delete. I was still able to find old comments. It gets rid of most. Also reddit is known to restore deleted posts and comments now. Week after I deleted everything was restored automatically.
Post racist conspiracy theories until your scrubbed from the site, it's your only hope.
Legal advice.
All I had to do was report a pedophile with direct proof to get me banned and it got them a temp 7 day ban -_-.
Reddit is disgusting
Using the the N word for good /jk
Actual unethical but nuclear LPT:
Just post a video of something cruel or with shock value you found online^(or do it yourself...I won't judge). IMO not so different than racist stuff
create outrage
???
profit (and get banned)
Edit: I do not condone animal cruelty.
Edit2: In essence: Post something bad on Reddit to get the attention from Admins to get banned site wide. That should hide your comments from anywhere your username is related to.
Just don't post something to bad, so that it will be reported to the authorities.
People were saying see you in a week like this was only an API issue and not that the site became incredibly toxic and infested by bots and low quality content
Ill pop in maybe monthly to make sure my stuff stays deleted/edited and Ill check in on /r/all...its a shit show, who is entertaining this? Its karma farming or garbage across the board. Lemmy is super young but it feels like reddit a decade ago. Ill gladly deal with its shortcomings to not deal with whatever reddit turned into.
Tell me why sooner
Deleted my 10 year account with hundreds of posts and thousands of comments. I have to admit, leaving reddit has created a sort of vacuum in my life, and I have been spending more time scrolling on facebook, news sites and other shitty services. I'm happy to finally have landed on lemmy, but it has been a bit bumpy with the instability on lemmy.world.
Lemmy is getting there but it's still not a great replacement, especially when it comes to niche topics. For example, the Venture Bros movie came out recently and I wanted to discuss it with other fans, but there's no place on lemmy for that; or if there is, I have been unable to find it. Meanwhile the Venture Bros subreddit has 3 different megathreads. I'm keeping my reddit account around for things like that until lemmy grows a bit more.
Yeah I filled that vacuum by learning how to solve a Rubiks cube, and now I'm trying to do it faster. Sync for Lemmy came out and felt just like Sync for Reddit and I was a bit worried I'd fall back into my old ways, which I kind of am tbh, I just have to make sure I'm not on Lemmy as much as Reddit somehow.
Ignore /c/all and be selective about the communities you subscribe to. In addition to other unfortunate browsing behaviours I also started lifting weights and climbing, so something good came out of it 😄
I left mine because there's lots of good info out there that will help people some day, but I'm done posting anymore on there. All my new comments go here.
I actually would recommend deleting. Whatever commercialized AI reddit has cooking up is just going to be trained on your words and information, if it hasn't already happened.
I propose that a new subreddit be created where you post something like "please ban me" and then people who visit will go and report you for sexual abusive and hate speech so you can get your account locked and banned site wide. Maybe there's already a thing like that?
Mine was an 11 year old account with almost 400K karma.
The sad thing was thinking about all the time I spent in it, realizing that it's time that was literally spent.
I felt the same after removing my account of 7 years, it’s a smaller community here but at least we’re starting fresh
I feel ya. I'm never logged in to Reddit anymore and if a search result pointe to Reddit I always go in incognito.
I will eventually batch edit my posts to crap and delete my account but it's an old account with 10 years of experiences, Aha-moments and other feelings... So I'm not ready yet....
If you just posted nonsense and useless stuff like memes without a real value sure go ahead.
IMO it's like burning a library of useful knowledge regardless of it's content. The amount of advice in casual conversations is IMO more important than "giving the finger" to Reddit.
My request if you really do it: Please archive useful advice threads on archive.org so some can at least take advantage while not having to visit reddit itself.
You can never fully delete your reddit account.
Find some old threads that you commented on years ago; chances are that a good portion of them are still there. Your reddit history doesn't show everything, and AFAIK there are no tools available that can effectively eliminate every single post you've ever made, unless of course you simply didn't make many comments and posts to begin with.
Request a GDPR export and you will get your entire comment history. There are tools that can read that history and delete all the comments. I did encounter errors deleting a small number of comments which may have been due to the subs being privated. I deleted the problem ones from the json and the rest got deleted. I manually checked a sample of the 12 years of comments to confirm the accessible ones were being deleted.
Delete your account, look again in 3 months to see if account is gone.
If not request deletion via email amd if not followed by a satisfactory action, file a gdpr complaint. That will fuck them over a bit.
It is crazy how quickly I saw that reddit is an actual defilement to the social process.
I kept getting booted out of using RES and old.r and how it wants to control the comments and everything ... I don't know. I'm happy that these federated systems are here. And I have looked at my next months budget to split donation to the cause.
Please have pledge drives right after upgrades or right after we have a big outage. Seems like that would be a great time to push for us to compensate the drivers of this public space.
The Reddit community is a confusing one. deleted posts, a red hammer down the community is gone. I've deleted a couple of accounts. It's really a community that takes time to run...
I like Lemmy a lot more than reddit but not having the sports communities over here really kills the usefulness for me. My main use on reddit is talking baseball/football/hockey/soccer/basketball and the sports world just isn't over here.
cool
Fediverse thanks you
Is there a tool for me to download my data first?
Now get banned so your "deleted" account history is marked too toxic to exploit.
I wonder if these tools have a way to batch download all the images from my saved posts.
Did anyone else try to click the white x in the upper right corner to close the image? I can’t be the only one.
I got banned site wide so I can't delete my subreddits or anything I posted. That should be illegal.
Too bad recommendations, advice and anything good there is you posted went with it.
I hope you enjoy being DenverCoder9...
Also: Cool.
Controversial maybe but I'm leaving my 12 years of content up in case there is an answer someone needs
I just won't use it anymore
That’s super nice of you but in the end it just adds value to a company that doesn’t give a shit about its creators.
The search volume and ads do not justify the help for the greater good IMO.
It fucks Reddit more over to use an adblocker and DDOS their servers to reduce the traffic.
Please do not ddos them
The value is the continued creation of content. Without new stuff it gets horning and useless
Consider removing it so users won't find it... Because the less value they get from reddit, the more likely it is they will come here instead.
I was active in sysadmin subs. My people need those comments
Haha... As if my content on Reddit has any value to anyone.
They won't come here... They'll go wherever they can to solve the problem, which won't be here because Lemmy doesn't really show up in search results yet
Same. I'm not gonna make the internet worse to use because I've now left the product. As a user, it's frustrating when I need help with some niche issue and find the perfect result on google, only for it to be deleted or otherwise useless. Deleting such history isn't gonna make people want to use Lemmy or the likes. Such historical information doesn't and will not exist on Lemmy. Deleting it doesn't push people to an alternative. It just means it's gone.
I'm not gonna cut off the collective internet's nose to spite Reddit's face.