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.
this is a pretty decent approach. glad you are here :-)
Thank you, I’m happy to be here. So tired of corporations ruining everything.
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.
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 was permabanned, I suspect my user name had something to do with it. Note that it wasn’t my main account but the act of disobedience was enough to ban my IP
Oh wow, what is the name of it? I plan on removing myself from reddit later today
https://github.com/leeola/PowerDeleteSuite
Here you go. There are others, but I used this one.
Thanks!! That worked wonderfully :)
The day I joined Beehaw is the day I deleted my 13 year old Reddit account. I’m already feeling the effects of spending less time scrolling and reading through comments, and more time actually talking to people.
It feels good :)
Just be aware that beehaw has super mods who can and will ban you for any reason. And that you won’t be seeing the full discourse of the fediverse, like this comment.
Exactly the same here, I’m enjoying a new experience with Lemmy and mastodon and I hope it continues to gain popularity
I had two 15 year old accounts… nuked both of them. Reddit has been dogshit for the last 8 years anyway and has just been getting progressively worse year after year. It has very little of what initially drew me to it 15 years ago, and I’ve just been going there out of habit the last few years.
Deleting it felt freeing, honestly wish I had done so sooner.
Yeah, 2014/2015 it slowly turned into a bot posting hell scape on a majority of subs.
After that horrible AMA, I stopped using it, what an absolute trainwreck
I deleted my Reddit account today right after that insane AMA
Jup. Deleted all my posts, guides and comments yesterday.
I think it’s somewhat dramatic for the “future” since so much of reddit is absolutley great knowledge. I can’t count how many times a reddit post or comment has helped me solve all kinds of weird problems…
I’m in the EU so I did a GDPR data request before deleting and essentially have a backup of all my own content. I’ll filter through it and put on Lemmy or my blog what I think is worth keeping.
That’s a good idea! I understand the sentiment of leaving a final “fuck you” to Reddit, but at the same time the thought of losing the treasure trove of accumulated knowledge stored there pains me.
I just deleted my u/truejeta account, which was almost 5 years old. Still don’t know if I’m gonna miss Reddit, but we’ll see. Anyway Lemmy looks very promising, so I’m happy to be here
Reddit deleted it for me. Permabanned my 9 year old account for “abusing the report feature” because I dared to report obvious report bots.
Mine is deleted. 12 years gone. But in the end, I think I’m better off for it.
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Deleting the history was sad. I made backups of everything and pulled the trigger today, though I’m almost sad I won’t be there to log-in tomorrow and see how barren it is with all the subreddits dark.
