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Just deleted my reddit account, along with all my posts and comments. (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago by vis4valentine@lemmy.ml to c/reddit@lemmy.ml
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Gotta be honest, watching the titles of the posts getting deleted made me a bit nostalgic, because it was an almost 5yo account.

However, now that's old news, and my account is totally gone.

I won't miss it really, I like Lemmy a lot more.

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[–] Arose8334@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Deleted my 10 year account with hundreds of posts and thousands of comments. I have to admit, leaving reddit has created a sort of vacuum in my life, and I have been spending more time scrolling on facebook, news sites and other shitty services. I'm happy to finally have landed on lemmy, but it has been a bit bumpy with the instability on lemmy.world.

[–] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Lemmy is getting there but it's still not a great replacement, especially when it comes to niche topics. For example, the Venture Bros movie came out recently and I wanted to discuss it with other fans, but there's no place on lemmy for that; or if there is, I have been unable to find it. Meanwhile the Venture Bros subreddit has 3 different megathreads. I'm keeping my reddit account around for things like that until lemmy grows a bit more.

[–] Arose8334@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A boycott is rarely comfortable.

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[–] Lifebandit666@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah I filled that vacuum by learning how to solve a Rubiks cube, and now I'm trying to do it faster. Sync for Lemmy came out and felt just like Sync for Reddit and I was a bit worried I'd fall back into my old ways, which I kind of am tbh, I just have to make sure I'm not on Lemmy as much as Reddit somehow.

[–] Arose8334@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Ignore /c/all and be selective about the communities you subscribe to. In addition to other unfortunate browsing behaviours I also started lifting weights and climbing, so something good came out of it 😄

[–] SomeGuyNamedPaul 15 points 1 year ago

Mine was an 11 year old account with almost 400K karma.

The sad thing was thinking about all the time I spent in it, realizing that it's time that was literally spent.

[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I left mine because there's lots of good info out there that will help people some day, but I'm done posting anymore on there. All my new comments go here.

[–] Plain 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I actually would recommend deleting. Whatever commercialized AI reddit has cooking up is just going to be trained on your words and information, if it hasn't already happened.

[–] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They'll just use archived versions instead then. It's not like you have even a smidge of a chance to find out, so who cares about legal issues or or your right for privacy.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

So get your account banned. Can't promise they won't still use it, but it's a lot less likely.

[–] imgprojts@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I propose that a new subreddit be created where you post something like "please ban me" and then people who visit will go and report you for sexual abusive and hate speech so you can get your account locked and banned site wide. Maybe there's already a thing like that?

[–] Psythik@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can never fully delete your reddit account.

Find some old threads that you commented on years ago; chances are that a good portion of them are still there. Your reddit history doesn't show everything, and AFAIK there are no tools available that can effectively eliminate every single post you've ever made, unless of course you simply didn't make many comments and posts to begin with.

[–] shirro@aussie.zone 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Request a GDPR export and you will get your entire comment history. There are tools that can read that history and delete all the comments. I did encounter errors deleting a small number of comments which may have been due to the subs being privated. I deleted the problem ones from the json and the rest got deleted. I manually checked a sample of the 12 years of comments to confirm the accessible ones were being deleted.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

Delete your account, look again in 3 months to see if account is gone.
If not request deletion via email amd if not followed by a satisfactory action, file a gdpr complaint. That will fuck them over a bit.

[–] mindlight@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I feel ya. I'm never logged in to Reddit anymore and if a search result pointe to Reddit I always go in incognito.

I will eventually batch edit my posts to crap and delete my account but it's an old account with 10 years of experiences, Aha-moments and other feelings... So I'm not ready yet....

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago

If you just posted nonsense and useless stuff like memes without a real value sure go ahead.

IMO it's like burning a library of useful knowledge regardless of it's content. The amount of advice in casual conversations is IMO more important than "giving the finger" to Reddit.

My request if you really do it: Please archive useful advice threads on archive.org so some can at least take advantage while not having to visit reddit itself.

[–] Lili-iptv@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

The Reddit community is a confusing one. deleted posts, a red hammer down the community is gone. I've deleted a couple of accounts. It's really a community that takes time to run...

[–] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

cool

[–] mojo@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

I wonder if these tools have a way to batch download all the images from my saved posts.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

Now get banned so your "deleted" account history is marked too toxic to exploit.

[–] fidodo@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is there a tool for me to download my data first?

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[–] Drinvictus@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago

Fediverse thanks you

[–] imgprojts@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I got banned site wide so I can't delete my subreddits or anything I posted. That should be illegal.

[–] magnetosphere@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Did anyone else try to click the white x in the upper right corner to close the image? I can’t be the only one.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

Too bad recommendations, advice and anything good there is you posted went with it.
I hope you enjoy being DenverCoder9...

Also: Cool.

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