@balderdash9 9 year old account…gone. I can’t believe how much it took me to do that. The day after they started their new charges. I really held out hope that they would see reason, like Hasbro with the whole license issue. Shame. Goodbye Reddit. Burn in hell.
The difference with the Hasbro D&D license though is the cliche “you are the product” quote. Hasbro needs to sell D&D products to the people who they upset, but Reddit only needs to sell impressions to advertisers who didn’t care about the API.
whenever I delete old accounts I always make a gdpr request on all my data, does anyone else do that?
I do.
That’s what I did before I overwrote and deleted my reddit comments. Left the account active just so I can make sure it stays that way
I’d rather edit every single post / comment to say “Fuck u/spez” but I don’t know how to use the API to do that and I don’t have the time to commit to that project :/
I’m bored. Can I write you the code?
Do it for the rest of us
Good suggestion. My next Selenium project may begin this Saturday.
/remindme
Another bot that can be made. I’ll be sure to look into it.
Make sure to also link to Lemmy. 👍
I used Redact to do it automatically, on my 13 years old account
PowerDeleteSuite if it still works
Lol some subreddits had changed their automod to warn you for changing your comments to “fuck Spez”
I got one that sorta said “oh you are editing all your old comments before leaving reddit? Let me ban you to help you not come back”
Then they banned me not even 10 minutes before I deleted my account. It was such a pathetic sounding message lmfao.
The funny thing is being banned from a subreddit doesn’t even stop you from continuing to edit your old comments in that subreddit. You just can’t make any new ones.
Same energy as “You can’t break up with me because I’m breaking up with you!”
I had like 10 Reddit Accounts over the past years
Right? Same here. I don’t understand how people cherish their Reddit accounts so much.
Is there a way to download my saved items? I haven’t gotten around to deleting yet and want to use PDS to do it thoroughly.
Power Delete Suite has the option to save a local backup before nuking your posts/comments from orbit.
I got perma banned off of reddit for commenting on a sub that I had been banned from, and instead of them just not letting my comment post - they instead basically ban you for posting again.
So if you get banned of a sub on reddit and forget because…who cares… You get yourself perma’d for ban evasion.
I got banned from like a news sub for saying “surprise not everyone shares your political opinion, of course there’s dissent”.
That’s when reddit for me went absolutely to shit. Just getting blacklisted by mods who are reading into everything.
Yep. Bunch of echo chambers honestly. Mods will ban you literally for questioning the modding standards of certain communities. Which means only people who agree are allowed in; there’s no way to change the rules. Power hungry fucks.
I didn’t delete my account or any of my posts when I left Reddit. Felt too much like punishing Reddit users and searchers of random information and not enough like punishing Spez.
I dunno. Aside from “fuck Spez” (which, don’t get me wrong, I can’t say is entirely unappealing), what’s the argument to be made for deleting your post history via something like PowerDeleteSuite rather than just leaving and never visiting Reddit again?
The argument I’ve heard is that reddit will be monetizing its user generated data by allowing AI programs to access it.
Yeah, that seems a little compelling, except that they’ve demonstrated that they keep deleted post content. If they’d be sleazy enough to train AIs on our not-deleted content, they’d probably be sleazy enough to train AIs on our deleted posts as well.
It’s not that important. People are putting far too much value into a forum account.
I debated whether or not I should wipe my post/comment history, but ultimately I decided that I just didn’t want reddit to have anything I created, no matter how worthless it is.
Partly to reduce Reddit’s reputation as the place to find answers for obscure problems, and partly to encourage neutral users to search for alternatives.
I think that deleters will not make a mind breaking difference, but the idea is to remove and rebuild that information other places.
With that said, if any of you had posted some obscure but wildly useful information on Reddit, please consider making a post in the relevant Lemmy community (or stack overflow, or wherever) with the solution.
I went to check it out recently and I don’t recognize it anymore. Spending some time away was good for me. 11 years and it’s gone.
Nixed my account. Not missing it.
Same, but I was snapped out of existence for “violating the rules”. For talking about shooting paper targets at a gun range. apparently that is threatening violence.
made it all the way into r/ascension or whatever the 1 million karma club is called, only to find it was as vapid as the rest of Reddit.
5 yrs? Those are rookie numbers. I “deleted” mine of 10+ years. Guess who gave a fuck? Only me. Here I am on lemmy rebuilding the dream. Plz upvvote and subscribe. Plz. K thx ♥️
9 years for me. I wiped my comment and post history, but didn’t delete it because all that does it take away any control you have if they decide to restore it.
I was there for 12 years! Not that it’s a competition. It was a very weird transition at first.
11 years and 3 days with well over 650k karma, before The Wipe for me. Power deleted all posts and comments.
Have you checked to see if Reddit un-deleted them? I’ve heard a few cases of people mass deleting their posts/comments, only for them to reappear a few days later
Same. It was actually a big enough change to routine that it took a few weeks to stop automatically opening Reddit.
I moved the lemmy icon to where reddit was on my browser’s top bar. That helped a lot.
@schema @Sabata11792, the best place or it 👍
Hol up, you were using the reddit app / website and still left? Good on you! For most of us clicking on our reddit browsers simply brought up nothing so the routine was quickly broken (removed RIF).
Used old.reddit and Bacon Reader if not at a PC. Been there long enough for this to be the last straw, for real this time.
I was exclusively an old.reddit user. Spez’s incredible arrogance and utter contempt for the users meant I had no other choice than to leave.
I had to put the Lemmy app where Baconreader used to be 😢
Where RiF resided for me
I was on there for a similar amount of time and was permanently banned for badmouthing the British royal family. Well, suggesting that the problem if British royalty could be solved with bricks, which are cheaper than guillotines.
The most annoying thing was that they treated that as some sort of actionable threat of violence.
The thought of that sniveling reporter and admin getting all uppity because I threatened their lords…
Ugh…
Same dude.
Honestly though its been easier than I thought. My screen time is way down and I have found lots of free time.
F in the chat
Nice username lol
It’s such a relief knowing that Lemmy can’t get fucked up by some shill.
If I don’t like this instance I literally pick up my bat and ball and go to the next one over. Same experience there except without the person/people I don’t like.
