This was a really hard decision for me but I purged all my posts, votes and comments via Shreddit. I then deleted all my accounts. I’ve been on Reddit since it was just a baby website. I love Reddit, the friends and the communities I was involved in changed my life for the better.
We’ll see how it goes but the only way we are going to win this fight is to walk away from Reddit. We have to send a message to them and the only way to do that is to hit them where it really hurts, right in the wallet.
Change is a good thing and I am ready to embrace it. I’m all in on kbin now. Let’s see where we go from here 🍻
I did it after the “noise” memo leaked. 12+ years of Reddit gone. I left Digg in the Exodus and I’m not taking Reddit’s shit either.
Yup me too. Just deleted with a nice “fuck you spez” parting message
I deleted all, all, I’d rather not be part of the next scrapping. In any case I can build my own AI with my own comments for my own personal gain if I want, at least I consented to that.
Can you provide a link to the “noise” memo that was leaked? I must’ve missed it because I haven’t heard of this. If it convinced you and was the final straw to delete your account, I’d be interested in seeing it as well
I’m more set on overriding all my comments, but I’m still on the fence about deleting the whole account. At least, once I know with 100% certainty that they won’t be reverted back to their original states (if possible)
The full text is quoted in this article, about halfway down: https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/13/23759559/reddit-internal-memo-api-pricing-changes-steve-huffman
Social media comes, and social media goes. Reddit.has peaked and will join the others in the dustbin of failed public offerings.
As it began, so shall it end: a snoo in a strange land.
Same. Just did it today. I’ve also been on reddit since the beginning and I’m done.
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Moving to the new, better online community and leaving Reddit to become what it becomes now is winning, in my opinion.
I don’t even want to win any fight anymore. I don’t want to use Reddit regardless of what they do with the API anymore. The API changes and the way that they have reacted to the backlash is just the straw that broke the camel’s back. And even if they revert all of the changes it’s too late to take back the way they’ve acted.
Y u p. I’d been thinking about getting out for a while; management of the site has sucked for some time, and it was pretty clear things weren’t going to get better. They have, instead, gotten significantly worse. This was a nice kick, with a lot of push towards getting a critical mass of users onto a new platform. Even if most of the reddfugees don’t stick, some will, and kbin / the fediverse can keep rolling forward. I deleted a 2 year account, and a 13 year account. Cya!
Same boat here but, I am really enjoying this fresh new community on kbin. Each day there are more and more new posts which looks promising.
I use to like it, but really, reddit has been crap for a long long time.
Yup. I was on reddit since before subreddits were even a thing. Good riddance.
I haven’t deleted my accounts yet, but I blocked reddit in my router firewall. This past week I found myself repeatedly going there without thinking, like a genuine addiction.
I didn’t realize until the blackout how bad Google search results are without Reddit. Everything from finding video game hints to recommendations on the best bicycle seats… All the best, trustworthy content was from users on Reddit.
I’ve compromised by using Google cached search results to avoid giving Reddit views.
Now the arduous but necessary task of making the Fediverse the place for those results instead.
I wonder how good instances will be able to appear on for example google. I do have my own calckey instance for example but dont yet understand how indexing stuff works
I’m primarily on mobile, so I put lemmy shortcut in the place where reddit was. Haven’t deleted it, but it’s working!
I’ve deleted all my comments from the last 10 years a few days ago. Riding it out until the 30th, and then I’m out. kbin looks like the perfect replacement/alternative that I’ve seen so far.
I‘m thinking about not deleting the account, but selling it. Not sure what will hurt reddit more.
Please check that your comments and accounts stay deleted! Apparently Reddit is restoring deleted comments.
This has to be bumped up higher, I think people are still deleting their accounts before making sure their comments are either staying deleted or rewritten!!!
I’ve started seeing threads on reddit now stating that deleted/edited comments are getting reverted to their original forms. This includes ones done from Shreddit and PowerDeleteSuite etc.
Shreddit also edits your comments before deleting them IIRC. In order to prevent stuff like this from happening.
They’re reverting them to the original comment, pre-edit and deletion.
Honestly it kinda just looks like server issues to me with the delete request getting dropped before completion or something, but still showing correctly client-side until re-loaded.
That said, I’ve edited all my comments to gibberish and left them up in that state. I’ll check and see if any are back in a week or two.
EDIT: I take it back, it’s not server issues.
EDIT2: It seems like comments in private subs didn’t properly save the edits.I deleted a bunch of my posts and comments manually earlier this week (did not use any tools, just clicked edit > delete) and now all of those posts and comments are back. The posts showed as gone for several days between. This isn’t a server error.
It happened to me three times after using PDS. I ended up using a Tampermonkey script called Spaz’s Reddit Delete, which also scrambles all comments and then deletes them, with an appropriate window of time between each action to avoid triggering any anti-spam response. This seems to have done the trick, and my comments or submissions haven’t reappeared.
I personally would prefer to keep my comments and posts and just delete the account. That way others don’t have to go to cached and archived versions of pages if a subreddit isn’t privated to see the full context of a comment, and it’s just better for overall preservation.
Same here. I don’t want to wipe out all the valuable info I’ve contributed over the years just to satisfy a desire to get revenge. The amount Reddit as a company suffers from deleting a single account is negligible, but that account could have exactly what someone needs one day. We’ve already collectively lost a lot of knowledge and information in just the past 10-20 years due to things not being archived properly - think source code for old games, websites pre-Archive.org, out of print books, etc.
@Parallax@kbin.social yep, while i do agree everyone can decide if they want to delete their data it unfortunately causes loss of knoweldge possibly. Like i browse r/Latexadvice. If suddenly tons of people would decide to delete their comments lots of people trying to find information would suddenly have a way harder time.
This doesn’t just send a message to Reddit. In fact, Reddit is failing to heed the lessons of history to their own current detriment and ultimate demise.
Community is everything in this landscape. Treat your user base like shit at your own peril.
Deleted my 1yo alt and my 12yo reddit account. Don’t really use third party apps, but I their whole attitude was awful and it’s not like thing are going to get better there.
Welcome to the gang, gang. I deleted my accounts when Christian put out the message about Apollo closure.
I’m proud of you numbers!
I also did this. 5yrs and 1k karma.
I’m not that optimistic about lemmy’s future (especially after lemmy.world defederation on beehaw), but I’m glad to be here.
If it won’t work, I’ll just stop wasting my time on reading things I don’t need. If it will, that’ll be cool.
In a general sense I’m in favor of the community using the tools that are fully integrated to curate their experiences. If you desperately need lemmy.world and beehaw you can sign up someplace else, that doesn’t block either. They don’t have to deal with each other, and your experience continues on.
After seeing this I deleted my account too. I’ve found alternatives and for some of my more niche interests, the forums are still active. Kinda fun living pre reddit.
I wonder how i’ll go forward after Sync for reddit dies… Seems kinda hard to just completely stop using reddit when there are certain information communities i kinda depend on which are already pretty niche on reddit itself.
