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?
9 years, and I’ve been a content creator that made it into the “top 1%” of my main sub. More than 200 videos (that have since been put on youtube instead) and just as many written guides, countless comments offering in-depth help etc.
I would be lying if I said the decision was easy, but I nuked everything I could. The posts / submissions are gone, a good chunk of the comments is deleted as well. Sadly shreddit didn’t quite catch everything and now that the account is deleted I can no longer manually nuke my old comments.
The “interesting” part is that I don’t even use third party apps - I use Firefox on my laptop. I also never used bots for moderation purposes as I haven’t been a mod - whenever I called out scammers / repost bots, I did it with a comment warning others and a report to the actual mods. The various changes u/spez wants to still implement wouldn’t even have directly affected me personally, but I found his attitude and behaviour just so incredibly sh*tty, hostile and egotistical that I decided to pull my content from his dumpster fire of a website in solidarity with the people who are directly affected.
Same here. Not on the content part, just the bit about solidarity. It hurts, but all the comments are gone now.
9 year creator as well, and I was legitimately sad when I pressed that delete account button. Before running the automated removal scripts I read through each one of my posts and comments and that brought back a lot of interesting memories of a different younger me. I archived what I could and got rid of the rest.
Yes I use third party apps but it’s the whole response from /u/spez and Reddit that really made me call it quits. They’re clearly catering for the Tiktok generation and not users who genuinely want to post original content and build good communities.
Yeah, his attitude and the whole fiasco signify the direction the platform. Today it won’t affect you, but tomorrow he will force something unfavorable to you just so he can lure in and makes these teenager an addict.
I’m a pack rat IRL. It unfortunately flows over into my digital life, me wanting to keep every file, bookmark, etc even it I haven’t visited/viewed it in years. Knowing this I quickly hit the process button on power delete suite and didn’t look back. I knew I’d want to keep stuff and go down a needless rabbit hole if I had peeked even at one page XD. Does feel good to go against my pack rat ways for once though!
I haven’t looked at it either. I’ll look once the backup is ready when PDS is done running. I hate link rot with a burning passion, but…
Yeah, I did a data request and actually rehosted my content via Github instead. I edited my comments to now point users to how they can find (and navigate) that instead.
I’m at about 50/50. I realized I would just scroll a lot through junk and got some time back by not doing that. I set up an RSS feed for a few news websites that has replaced reddit for current events and tech news I care about.
However I haven’t found a good replacement for hobby boards or video games I’m currently playing. I’m on a few game discords but I hate the chat format. I would rather have threads I could read about specifics topics instead of catching up on 100 post an hour with no order. For hobbies, I found that the fediverse has me covered on the selfhosted front, but things like comic books and vinyl really hasn’t taken off that much here.
I guess it’s not too different than moving to a new town. The last town is still there, but it’s not the same anymore. Those memories, though… You will make new memories in the new town, but you’ll never lose the memories of the old town.
That being said, WELCOME TO LEMMYTOWN, FRIEND! I’m new here too. Let’s make some new memories in a new context ❤️
Make sure that your changes actually “sticks”. There are multiple reports of people trying to delete or edit posts, only for them to come back soon after. It seems that deleting isn’t possible and when mass editing posts, there needs to be long enough delay (5 seconds or so) between each edit.
I’m using Power Delete Suite on it, I assume it’ll do it properly?
I tried that and only some comment are deleted/edited, some still available to the public even when my account doesn’t appears to have anything. Reddit did not have the tools to wipe your account and they know it, that’s why GDPR request is largely ignored, or with string attached(like want you to manually wipe everything yourself before deleting the account).
I tried that and only some comment are deleted/edited
I was running into the same thing and this is probably due to being rate-limited and needing a delay between edits / comment deletion.
With a 5 second delay mine worked fine (But took a lot longer overall obviously)
Hmm, imma try this
You may need to use a forked version of the Power Delete Suite which has the 5 second delay. My account (Of 11 years) had too many comments and I was being rate limited, so once the original script finished there was stuff left over.
After adding a 5 second delay between requests my account had everything edited (then deleted).
I checked and it’s all gone, so I think I’m good I feel so sad tbh. Probably not gonna actually delete the account itself, just cuz that itself has some more sentimental value as well; but every single comment and post and everything is just… gone.
Also, better to keep the account open in case they restore anything and you need to delete it again. All “deleting” it means is that the username is removed from your comments and you have no control over them any more.
link?
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don’t delete just edit and you’ll need to manually do anything archived and all your highest scoring posts.
12 years for me. I did a wipe 7 years ago so my oldest stuff is gone. I am bummed that I can’t read my oldest posts and comments, but I erased them for good reason. I was an edgy, annoying, Elon-worshiping teenager.
I will get around to wiping the last 7 years, but I’m not ready to just yet.
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- Install Reddit Enhancement Suite on your browser (if you didn’t use it for some reason)
- Head to your profile comments page
- Open your browser debug console
- Paste this script:
var $domNodeToIterateOver = $('.del-button .option .yes'), currentTime = 0, timeInterval = 1500; $domNodeToIterateOver.each(function() { var _this = $(this); currentTime = currentTime + timeInterval; setTimeout(function() { _this.click(); }, currentTime); });- Hit enter. Sigh in relief as your profile cleans itself comment by comment.
You may need to run it again after each page is cleared.
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Weird, deleted 13 years of comments for me.
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Seems to work pretty well but it’s slow and tedious to work though page after page.
Man that was a lot of free content I’ve given them though.
This comment inspired me to shreddit right now
Edit: aaannnnndddddddd it’s gone
Will it really? I didn’t realize. I’m guessing its because the api will no longer be free?
Yup.
JavaScript hacks should still work as they simulate clicking buttons on the UI.
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15 years.
I’m a shy person and was just now getting comfortable posting stuff.
Oh well.
It’s sad that a lot of genuinely useful comments are going to be lost in the purge.
15 years for me, was a Digg escapee. It’s such an ingrained part of my life. Intensely sad and sentimental about it.
Nah. Haha. 11 years. Always appreciated the content but never got attached to the platform. I feel right at home here on Lemmy and I’m not looking back. Only big concern is whether fediverse content can take the place of Reddit content when it comes to googling.
12 years in total across 2 primary accounts, 350k combined karma, and a ton of memories. so yea, i’m feeling some of that nostalgia while deleting. i appreciate that power delete suite allows me to download all of my comments and posts, but it’s just not really gonna be the same. i haven’t figure out how to save all my saved posts and links though, which has a bit more value for me, but ciest la vie.
Are you actually able to delete your stuff? I’ve tried a couple days in a row to delete my posts and comments and they kept coming back. I even tried editing my posts but they just revert back to the original.
Haven’t tried in a day or so but I assume reddit is restoring from a backup or something
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I was able to delete all my comments and posts about a week ago. Some comments will occasionally pop up on my profile from subs that were previously set to private since you can’t access or delete comments in privated communities.
I’ve been on Reddit since 2011 and feel very bittersweet about all this. Reddit has changed drastically since I first joined so I already mourned the earlier days of Reddit but this really feels like the last naio in the coffin. On the other hand, I wouldn’t have discovered Lemmy without Reddit and I see so much potential here so that is the silver lining in all of this.
I sorta felt the same before I started to delete… but it felt weirdly cathartic and satisfying once it was done.
The only thing that bugs me now is that there are still comments that I can’t get to. My user profile shows zero comments, but googling my username + reddit, I can still find old posts, and I want them gone too.
Actually, I’m not.
I kinda suspected an internet cancer diagnosis pretty early, so started mentally preparing myself to say goodbye. I’ve also been doing this thing where often I write specifically for the AIs, going out of my way to be polite, clear and extra explanatory. It was kinda exhausting though, so I’m glad I can stop now.
I’m still a fairly nice internet guy, but I can say whatever the fuck now.
Nope, I wiped a lot of the stuff in my alt when the Aimee Challenor thing happened and tbh, I’ve been pretty disengaged since then because I found the real world to be more interesting.
The message boards I frequented when I was 14 don’t exist anymore and thank fucking god. You don’t want this cringe stuff tied to you 20 years down the road. You’ll find that the memories of good times are enough!
