I’d been using Reddit for 6 years; thousands of hours. All gone, in a quick(ish) running of a script. And once it’s gone, it’s gone. Link rot is gonna be so much bigger soon. And everything that represents a mark on the platform from me will be gone.

I remember spending time on basically every interest I’ve had on there. I remember the memes, the political discussions, the anticipations of football transfers, the stunning source-gathering work on the Ukraine war, the shitposts, the communities willing to help me on the most stupid of questions. The hours spent defending random pixels on a canvas modified by other communities with friends, the awestruck silence of the Snap both in movie form and Reddit form. The support for me as a person when I needed it the most and real life couldn’t, wouldn’t, didn’t give to me.

And in a few minutes, that’ll all be gone. It’s already going away as I type this. Almost feels like a microcosm of my own mortality. Maybe I’m being overly sentimental, but it hurts. Anyone else feel the same?

  • The Norwegian Drone Pilot
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    31 year ago

    Deleted all of my posts and comments with the ‘Nuke Reddit History’ extension earlier today and deleted my main account as well.

    I do have a 2nd backup account (with no posts or comments) where I now have subscribed to all of the same channels as my main account had. I decided to do that as I want to wait until most of the channels I have subscribed to on Reddit are on ‘Lemmy’ before I delete everything that has to do with Reddit to do.