I just ran Power Delete Suite on all of my comments and self posts, stating they have been removed in protest.

On July 1st, I am deleting every comment and post, then closing my account. Reddit was fun while it lasted.

The fediverse is still raw, but I see massive protentional here, and I am ready for this journey with all of you.

  • @mykl
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    581 year ago

    It’s crazy isn’t it? Six months in and Mastodon still hasn’t clicked for me, but six days here and I know I’m not going back to Reddit.

    • @[email protected]
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      181 year ago

      Same boat. But Twitter wasn’t really my kind of social media anyway, maybe that’s why Mastodon hasn’t locked in?

      • 50gp
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        61 year ago

        twitter is way more useful for following people or groups for news/updates than posting comments and forming communities

        like a secondary social media platform you can link elsewhere

      • Widget
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        61 year ago

        It’s the voting system that does it imo. When everyone just shouts random thoughts into the void hoping it goes viral the overall quality tends to be low. It makes for a decent RSS feed, but so do RSS feeds.

      • @mykl
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        61 year ago

        Yeah it took me a couple of tries before I got Twitter, so I’ve been sticking with Mastodon so far. This might well be what I was looking for all along though.

      • Margot Robbie
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        Twitter’s only purpose is for blue checkmarks to scream into the void, but why do that when you can watch more fun versions of blue checkmarks shitpost on Lemmy instead?

      • @wheresyourshoe
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        31 year ago

        Yeah, I never had a Twitter, and when I tried mastodon I got visually assaulted by a full screen picture of a wang, so I’m good here.

    • @[email protected]
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      81 year ago

      Same here. Mastodon is nice, but never felt as good as Lemmy for me. Additionally the content here is much more interesting for me.

    • @Wiitigo
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      61 year ago

      My sentiments exactly! It feels like Lemmy is exploding. But like, a good explosion.

    • @SpezCanLigmaBalls
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      51 year ago

      Does mastodon have anything else going on besides Twitter type stuff?

      • @mykl
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        Well, you can access Lemmy posts from Mastodon, but it doesn’t seem to be the ideal way to do it.

        I would love it if Mastodon really was a Twitter replacement, but although the functionality is there, the atmosphere never seems to get as chaotic and joyful as Twitter could be. Maybe that will just take time though.

        • @SpezCanLigmaBalls
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          21 year ago

          I haven’t been able to find account with some like nuked and dank ass memes yet. I just want to find account that straight up bullshit

          • Omega
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            31 year ago

            I somehow ended up following a bunch of trans anarchists. So my page is filled with that and some New York Times posts. It’s pretty entertaining.

          • @mykl
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            11 year ago

            Haha, I’m sure that will change as both platforms grow.

  • @[email protected]
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    I wouldn’t delete your account (in case Reddit tries to replace the deleted comments as they have been doing). But I would unsubscribe from every subreddit.

    Additionally, if you have any very useful comments/posts, repost them to Lemmy and then edit them to leave some information that will redirect users to your posts in Lemmy. That way good information isn’t lost and you’ll help to slowly drive users towards Lemmy over time.

  • @Evono
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    181 year ago

    Thinking about doing the same to my acc with 250k+ karma.

    • @Reddit_was_funOP
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      111 year ago

      It is accounts like ours that hurt when they leave. Accounts that have been producing OC content for years and just not consuming posts. My karma is 50/50 posts and comments.

    • @Reddit_was_funOP
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      91 year ago

      Be sure and delete your posts/comments on your way out, no reason to leave behind free content.

      • @Evono
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        71 year ago

        If i go i will Mass edit them with Redact slowly to not trigger the auto ban systems then wait a week or so then remove them all with redact lol

  • flying_monkies
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    151 year ago

    You might want to hold off on the deletion part… After the comments about “reddit is restoring posts”, I logged back in and saw my entire history had been restored after 24 hours. That includes messages I deleted years ago.

    So, went through and re-ran power delete suite again. Next day, there were a few back.

    Going the lather-rinse-repeat route with wiping them. I figure if they want to burn CPU cycles recovering my stuff, I can burn their CPU cycles deleting it again. At some point I’ll see about sending them a support request to remove all of my data if it keeps occurring.

    • @lka1988
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      Something to keep in mind - any comments you made in subs that went private were not affected by PDS, because they were made private with the rest of the sub.

  • @crescent_corvid
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    141 year ago

    this makes my little archivist heart sad tbh. fuck spez.

  • @[email protected]
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    121 year ago

    I’ve already started moving over to lemmy but I’m also seeing some weird stuff on my Reddit account. I’ve had more ‘Followers’ sign on to my account in the last 2 weeks than I’ve seen in the last 3-4 years. I don’t believe these are real followers. What would be the reason for this? Is Reddit playing some sort of statistics game with long-time Reddit accounts?

    • ඞmir
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      11 year ago

      They’re spam-bots that will either link you to a NSFW page or try to scam you in some other way

    • @[email protected]
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      11 year ago

      That was started before since end of May. Some bots are pretending to be hot girls living nearby you and to catch your attention are just following you, because if they send a message or start chat they will be banned in a few hours

  • chainsawrobot
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    111 year ago

    The mass exodus of Twitter and Reddit is like the burning of Alexandria, digital.

    How many tutorials or sourced synopsis of events or other long form written media created by volunteers was lost to all of this? Its insanity.

    • syrinori
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      41 year ago

      I have such mixed feelings about all of this. I get why, stick it to Reddit and show them we have the control, but we just burn ourselves doing it. Kinda sucks all the way around.

      • detwaft
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        51 year ago

        The tutorials and guides on reddit are invariably reposts from somewhere else. There will be the occasional gem that is nowhere to be found but on balance I’d say reddit could vanish and it wouldn’t matter in the long run.

    • Luccajan
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      31 year ago

      That’s why I use the archive.org extension, it archives every site I visit when is has not been archived in the last 7 days. So when a website goes you can still find it with the waybackmachine. The best part is the extension will also automatically redirect to the most recent backup when you click on a dead link.

      Sorry for the bad English.

    • Pika
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      11 year ago

      this. Being someone who had used Reddit a lot for information gathering, it really sucks that it had to go this far, so much information is being lost out of all this.

  • S4nvers
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    91 year ago

    I probably wouldn‘t remove the account itself
    Otherwise you can‘t remove them again when they get restored by the admins

    • Cloaca
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      71 year ago

      Yeah. I deleted my content and account. Next day content was back, but my account was still gone.

      • @Mereo
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        61 year ago

        Do you live in Europe? Perhaps you can request the Right to be Forgotten (GDPR). If a lot of European do it, that might pressure Reddit.

        • Trebach
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          You can also make a request under the CCPA if you live in California and the DPA if you live in the UK.

          • Cloaca
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            21 year ago

            Unfortunately no enforceable measures that I am aware of for residence of New England.

        • @[email protected]
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          11 year ago

          Not sure whether that helps. If there is no critical mass they can just say “F… you”.

        • Pika
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          I think they would just use the normal account deletion procedure, so all comments would still be there just with a “deleted user” user

          sadly the best way I can think of is just doing it a little at a time manual edits/deletes. or restricting it to be only like 300-400 posts at a time. but honestly reddit is probally just rolling back everything within x time because I was also re-logged in after logging out on all devices the night prior, which tells me they likely ran a database rollback and then migrated new data over the old data.

  • polaroid
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    91 year ago

    This is oddly exciting, like being a child again. I hope it grows into something great. Hello from kbin!

    • @[email protected]
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      41 year ago

      Someone posted 14 year old reddit thread by digg refugees, and it looked very similar to what’s happening here lol. Hopefully the community keeps growing and improving

  • @einsofohr
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    deleted by creator

  • Omega
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    71 year ago

    10 years and 180,000 karma. I nuked all of my comments and all but a couple of my posts.

    However, I have seen that some of my comments are still there on posts despite not showing up in my comment history.

    • @kylian0087
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      31 year ago

      i have this exact same thing happening. Comments are deleted from my comment history but when going to the post that contains the comments they still show up. Can this be because of some form of caching going on?

    • @[email protected]
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      31 year ago

      Yeah, reddit does that. Kinda shady tbh. That’s why it’s recommended to use a script to scramble all old comments before deleting them

  • millions
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    71 year ago

    Just found out it was my cake day today, was planning on deleting everything on the 30th but it would be funny if i did it on the 6th year of my account

  • Che Banana
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    61 year ago

    Unsubscribed from everthing last night, went to check today and i have 2 subs.

    funny stuff

    • Lazycog
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      11 year ago

      Right? I haven’t felt this excited for internet since msn messenger. (I know internet existed before that but hey, I was wearing diapers through the golden age)

  • @[email protected]
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    51 year ago

    Fyi accounts like yours can fetch above $200 on some sites. Sure they’ll be used to advertise and spam but is that really your problem now?