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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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.
Same boat. But Twitter wasn’t really my kind of social media anyway, maybe that’s why Mastodon hasn’t locked in?
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?
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.
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.
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.
My sentiments exactly! It feels like Lemmy is exploding. But like, a good explosion.
“The future is now old man!”
Same here. Mastodon is nice, but never felt as good as Lemmy for me. Additionally the content here is much more interesting for me.
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.
You need to tell this to more people since they shouldn’t destroy valuable information.
Do you have evidence of reddit replacing comments?
Thanks for pointing out that there may be more to this, I dug into it a bit more. A few users reported that their comments/posts were being restored:
@shindig1457@lemmy.world https://lemmy.ml/post/1290893
@Beardliest@lemmy.world https://lemmy.ml/comment/690447
It looks like it could be related to issues with Powerdelete, or else issues with being able to delete comments while a sub is/was set to private. https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/34112/Updated-Reddit-is-quietly-restoring-deleted-AND-overwritten-posts-and
However, there is also a user that reported that their manually deleted posts came back @sukarn@mstdn.social https://mstdn.social/@sukarn/110553511800817413 Which could be related to Reddit performing maintenance on the servers.
Either way it’s probably worth it to hold onto your account for a while longer to verify that there weren’t any issues with your posts/comments being deleted.
Thanks for that :)
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?
Probably trying to get you to stay because you have “fans” now.
Those are just bots, fake girls
this makes my little archivist heart sad tbh. fuck spez.
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.
I did the same to my 10 year old, 120k karma account; all that was lost was stupid jokes and meme references.
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.
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.
This is oddly exciting, like being a child again. I hope it grows into something great. Hello from kbin!
Thinking about doing the same to my acc with 250k+ karma.
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.
Be sure and delete your posts/comments on your way out, no reason to leave behind free content.
o7
I feel the fresh air of a new internet breeding <3
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.
I had two accounts, one 8 years old and one 4 years old, with a combined karma of about 120k. Deleted them both earlier. Nothing of value was lost; the only “conversation” you can find on Reddit is salty arguments anyway.
me:
- 14y+ account,
- 14k comment karma,
- 0 comments,
- 0 posts
not deleting my account, because i want to verify that my account stays empty.
see /r/beatniak
better do it earlier, if you’re late PowerDeleteSuite might not work
Removed by mod
I have over 13k. My bot is keeping my comment list at 15 max and I’m not posting content. Been trying out kbin instead.
I’m hanging around until the end of June, but once Apollo is dark, I’m gone.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
