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.
You must log in or register to comment.
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?
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.
twitter is way more useful for following people or groups for news/updates than posting comments and forming communities
like a secondary social media platform you can link elsewhere
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.
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?
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.
“The future is now old man!”
My sentiments exactly! It feels like Lemmy is exploding. But like, a good explosion.
Same here. Mastodon is nice, but never felt as good as Lemmy for me. Additionally the content here is much more interesting for me.
Does mastodon have anything else going on besides Twitter type stuff?
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.
all my comments were on removed subs so i dont think theyre all that valuable
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:
@[email protected] https://lemmy.ml/post/1290893
@[email protected] 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 @[email protected] 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 been replacing my posts with gibberish (google “gibberish generator”) and a link to lemmy.
Be aware that /r/AskReddit has some automation that will delete your post if they detect some script. I don’t know how it works, but so far the trigger for me seems to be any link to the /r/apolloapp post where Christian posts his call logs.
this makes my little archivist heart sad tbh. fuck spez.
For that reason, I’m leaving mine up. Some might be useless, sure. But others I put some effort in. They’re a little piece of Internet history, and I’m loath to set fire to that. I can still move to another platform while leaving my account intact.
As a newbie data hoarder the Reddit exodus has felt like my first real trail for making a personal archive of content I wanna go back to. Ran a scraper on a few of my top subs right before the blackout on top of cherry picking posts I regularlly returned to for information.
Overall think I’m pretty set for never returning to that place.
https://lemm.ee/comment/251639 how to download your Reddit data in a better way
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.
You can check this out https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-download-your-reddit-data/
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.
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
That was started before since end of May. Some bots are pretending to be hot girls living nearby you and to catch your attention are just following you, because if they send a message or start chat they will be banned in a few hours
They’re spam-bots that will either link you to a NSFW page or try to scam you in some other way
Thinking about doing the same to my acc with 250k+ karma.
Be sure and delete your posts/comments on your way out, no reason to leave behind free content.
If i go i will Mass edit them with Redact slowly to not trigger the auto ban systems then wait a week or so then remove them all with redact lol
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.
Fyi accounts like yours can fetch above $200 on some sites. Sure they’ll be used to advertise and spam but is that really your problem now?
I have several accounts I’d like to see about selling. Where do I go exactly?
I’ve found playerup to be a site that has a board for selling.
I had two accounts, one 8 years old and one 4 years old, with a combined karma of about 120k. Deleted them both earlier.
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
13yrs ? karma (not much) 2 comments 0 posts
once baconit goes i may check it once in a while for the same. i find better content here actually user generated & not bot/karma farm or reposted
regardless of the drama (which i am here for) i appreciate being able to remove myself from there.
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.
o7
This is oddly exciting, like being a child again. I hope it grows into something great. Hello from kbin!
The mass exodus of Twitter and Reddit is like the burning of Alexandria, digital.
How many tutorials or sourced synopsis of events or other long form written media created by volunteers was lost to all of this? Its insanity.
That’s why I use the archive.org extension, it archives every site I visit when is has not been archived in the last 7 days. So when a website goes you can still find it with the waybackmachine. The best part is the extension will also automatically redirect to the most recent backup when you click on a dead link.
Sorry for the bad English.
I have such mixed feelings about all of this. I get why, stick it to Reddit and show them we have the control, but we just burn ourselves doing it. Kinda sucks all the way around.
The tutorials and guides on reddit are invariably reposts from somewhere else. There will be the occasional gem that is nowhere to be found but on balance I’d say reddit could vanish and it wouldn’t matter in the long run.
this. Being someone who had used Reddit a lot for information gathering, it really sucks that it had to go this far, so much information is being lost out of all this.
Removed by mod
I feel the fresh air of a new internet breeding <3
Unsubscribed from everthing last night, went to check today and i have 2 subs.
funny stuff
Could they have been private when you unsubbed from everything else, and therefore not appear in your list of subreddits?
I was never subscribed to them…creepy? and something else random.
Oh I see, that’s super weird!
