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.

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    1 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.

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

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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?

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    1 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?

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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.

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      1 year ago

      You need to tell this to more people since they shouldn’t destroy valuable information.

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      1 year ago

      I’ve been replacing my posts with gibberish (google “gibberish generator”) and a link to lemmy.

      Be aware that /r/AskReddit has some automation that will delete your post if they detect some script. I don’t know how it works, but so far the trigger for me seems to be any link to the /r/apolloapp post where Christian posts his call logs.

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    1 year ago

    I had two accounts, one 8 years old and one 4 years old, with a combined karma of about 120k. Deleted them both earlier.

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      I’ve done a data request with Reddit and will probably attempt to use a script to download my entire history (plus context, if possible) before July 1, then I’ll see about overwriting the comments.

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      I did the same to my 10 year old, 120k karma account; all that was lost was stupid jokes and meme references.

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    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.

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      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

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    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.

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

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    1 year ago

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

    funny stuff

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    1 year ago

    Should hold off on deleted your account for the time being. Many subs are polling users on which direction to take and I’ve been messaging mods with short comments to move to lemmy.

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    Don’t forget to ask all your data under gdpr before wiping the account. I asked my data and after 2 weeks still it’s not done so i have the feeling it’s computationally expensive for them. So, the more users ask for data, the better

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    Good stuff. I deleted my account from 2011 the other day. This shit is stupid. Honestly already like kbin better anyway from a purely aesthetic perspective.

    Reddit was fun while it lasted.

    This is basically my attitude as well.