Im working up the courage to. Ill never go back, but it is also hard to delete that much history just for a statement
My plan is to unsub from subreddits as I find comparable communities here until eventually there is nothing left in my feed to keep me at Reddit.
I don’t think I’m going to delete my account, but I don’t really see myself being active anymore. Back when I had an Android phone I used Relay, and when I switched to iOS I used Apollo. They were just better clients and offered a smooth experience that Reddit themselves failed to provide.
More than that though, the utter slander towards Christian Selig just puts me off entirely. He’s been nothing but lovely, listened to his community, and developed a fantastic app, even taking accessibility into account. Reddit on the other hand doesn’t want to bother implementing accessibility features so they’ll happily let certain accessibility focused apps continue using the API.
It’s just so transparently terrible.
On the other hand I’m glad it’s happening. I’d not even heard of the “fediverse” before, but reading up on the ActivityPub protocol and the general idea of how these things work, this is something I really want to succeed. Take social networks out of the hands of corporations and put it into the hands of users.
I’m not a massive fan of Lemmy’s front-end, but that’s fixable. The fact that the code is open source (and they use something as standard as Bootstrap) makes it super approachable. Maybe I could even help out.
I’ll miss some of my niche subs, but I’d rather help get them started on a federated platform.
I’m with you. I’ve watched Reddit pull a LOT of bullshit over the years, and this is heinous enough that I’m done. I’ll keep my account because there are some very niche subs that can provide help with certain things, so I want to be able to search or post to them as needed. But Lemmy really has my attention now.
I am trying to transition away from reddit but I won’t delete my account. Do you think that lemmy will eventually become more popular as a result of what reddit has done? It has a much more complicated signup process.
I’m really no good when it comes to speculative things. Lemmy (and the fediverse) is intriguing to me, but I do feel like it needs to be made more user friendly if it is to take off and garner more mainstream appeal.
Currently it really puts the federated-ness in the forefront, but I feel like it might be an idea to soften that a bit. The average user wouldn’t care so much about the details, but knowing that it’s not run by a single big corporation might be appealing. Streamlining the signup process would go a long way.
I will delete mine when Sync shuts down, since I exclusively use Sync to browse Reddit. But I really wanted to delete it after I read that sad excuse of an AMA.
Lots of Sync users in this thread, apparently. Hopefully the dev follows through with Sync for Lemmy.
I was thinking of designing my own app or contributing to the design of Lemmy, but I have no idea of who to talk to about that.
Deleted the app off my phone and put Lemmy in its place to try and switch. Not going to delete my account or posts, just not going back.
What Lemmy app are you using?
Jerboa or mlem are the only options right now.
Thanks! I’m using Jerboa now and it’s pretty good so far
I’m not. I am in iOS and just added the web page to my Home Screen. It’s … ok
I’m finding mlem is a lot better than the web app… it’s no Apollo but I feel they’re doing their best.
Thanks for the recommendation. It seems like it doesn’t browse federated posts, but I’d agree, the experience is better for sure.
lemmy-ui from lemmy.world as a PWA for now.
Currently cloning all of my saved posts with bdfr before sub’s go dark
I’ve edited and deleted useless comments but I don’t think I will delete helpful stuff I’ve posted as I’ve often found useful information from deleted accounts.
Then on June 30th I’ll delete my 3 reddit accounts in solidarity with the 3PAs that are shutting down.
It seems like this year is really going to test the fediverse, first Twitter, now Reddit, and YouTube seems to be following by shutting down Vanced and attempting to shutdown Invidious and also Twitch seems to be messing with their content creators too
They’re going to push a lot of people away and so far it seems like Mastodon and now Lemmy are attempting to fill the niche, I hope it works out because I love the concept
If there’s one thing I think will be fine it’s YouTube. Even if it goes through changes, it’s more or less the only platform that does what it does at that level.
Currently cloning all of my saved posts with bdfr before sub’s go dark
Any guide on how to do this?
https://github.com/aliparlakci/bulk-downloader-for-reddit theres a lot of options here, I just used
bdfr clone /path/to/save/folder --user YourUsername --saved --authenticate --file-scheme ‘{POSTID}’
This pulled everything from all of my saved posts, including any media that was still in the post and all of the comments
After that horrible AMA, I stopped using it, what an absolute trainwreck
I won’t delete all my comments, there are many that are answers to questions and explanations/instructions for those having problems.
I don’t feel like it’s right to remove them, since so many times I too found solutions in reddit old comments that I couldn’t find anywhere else.
For now I’m just downloading my history, then I’ll check subs selectively, I may delete a few in non-significant subs but the rest in subs containing help for others will stay.
Completely stopped using reddit. Haven’t decided whether I’ll delete or sell the account yet
You can sell accounts?
How on earth would you do that anyway? Do I go onto Amazon, or just my local fruit market?
https://playerup.com/accounts/redditaccounts/
I guess people buy “trustworty” accounts to use for spam and scams. Usually I’d disagree with it but after reddits shenanigans I feel less guilty
€30? Absolute joke. I can’t imagine these guys make many sales.
What’s the going rate for an account these days?
https://playerup.com/accounts/redditaccounts/
If these listing are anything to go buy, I think I can get ~£80
I have. Found a tool on Github that edited and deleted every comment or post I did and then deleted the account. So, the nuclear option. My account may not have had much contributions, but it was an honest account of 5 years.
I had 7 years of saved posts in my old Reddit account, deleted it today. We’ll see if Lemmy grows, but always open to trying new things!
Oh good you just remind me to save elsewhere all the saved posts and comments, lot of things I don’t want to lost forever
I just kicked off Redact, deleting all 2038 messages I’ve posted on Reddit over 9 years. It’s bittersweet, but I’m done, and while i can’t control their database management, I won’t have some corpo fuckwit monetizing my content if i can help it.
i saved what i wanted and used shreddit to wipe all my comments, i did have a couple good threads with answers to questions but they were so outdated i dont think it mattered so i removed all comments, then deleted my account. here now today.
Nuked and deleted my numerous alts over the past few days. Nuked and deleted my main and oldest account (14 years) just a few hours ago.
Might spool up that self-hosted lurk-only software to still browse, but I’m not posting another word on there.
Deleted my 14 year old account yesterday. Didn’t save shit. Fuck that place.
We are going to lose a lot of karma! Mhuahahaha
Loollll!!
Same, except my account was a year younger.
Please don’t delete your Reddit account. It is of minimal impact to Reddit. Keeping a database of users and their posts is far less resourceintensive then actually serving them, Reddit won’t care.
It does however screw ppl over when googling questions. We all know that adding site:reddit.com in google search is pretty much a must at this point when searching for solutions to obscure problems. Delete that and a bunch of potentially useful info is lost forever, and Reddit soldiers on without a care in the world.
If you insist upon deleting all your Reddit data, please archive it first, so valuable info isnt lost forever.
I feel you on this and I am torn. the abuse by reddit centers around treating user content and the users themselves as an owned asset. burning your own content with fire is a valid protest with sort term pain and potential long term gain for everyone.
my question is, what happens when reddit starts to restore user content with no link back to the original content creator account? I have not looked at the current reddit ToS. Does reddit legally think they own your content?
search engine indexes eventually age out on dead content and, hopefully, 12+ months on “lemmy:” will be a thing.
It does however screw ppl over when googling questions
isn’t that the point? your content drives traffic to the website. Removing said content takes traffic away from reddit.
Yeah, perhaps i should’ve been clearer in my og comment. What im referring to as content that matters is stuff like snippets of code, solutions software/hardware problems, useful life advice. Obscure content that isn’t found anywhere else on the web.
If you look at what drives the largest amount of traffic on Reddit, its all reposted content from various other sites, nothing we can’t find elsewere. I wouldn’t mind that type of content being removed as it can be found elsewhere. I just care about niche stuff.
I thought the point was to remove the valuable content, not the cost of resources to Reddit? Valuable content means consumer views, and consumer views attract advertisers, and advertisers generate revenue, which Reddit does care about. If I’d actually generated any content of lasting value over there, I’d delete it and repost it here.
Agreed there, working in IT/DevOps I commonly find answers to technical problems by reading reddit threads. I don’t really care if people delete memes, pictures of cats, stuff like that… But please keep the actual helpful knowledge.
The amount of Google searches I’ve done which are of the form:
site:reddit.com some issueI think a Google result was how I stumbled across Reddit in the first place.
