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Long before the big fiasco I had already taken up the habit of nuking my own Reddit account after ~6 months or ~20K karma, whichever came first. I had noticed that an attachment to such accounts creates inner turmoil. Like when you get unfairly banned by some powertripping mod. I simply didn't like the fact that someone else had any kind of emotional power over me, no matter how slight, so I taught myself to kill my accounts without attachment.
So when the shit hit the fan before summer it was trivial to just delete my latest account and not make a new one. Been a happy Lemming ever since, not planning on going back. Sometimes the urge to lurk creeps in but so far I've been perfectly able to ignore it.
I honestly feel happier than before. I already don't use any news apps and limit my exposure to actuality, and Reddit was pretty much the last "toxic" thing to hammer into my mind 24/7.
I'd say I miss it, but I really don't. The hours of doomscrolling I spent on there were not only wasted, but 100% counterproductive to my happiness as a human being.
I spent over a full year /played in Wow loooong ago, and that time at least wasn't wasted because I enjoyed most of it. Can't say the same for Reddit.
I keep my account up because I'm in subs that have technical help for certain hardware and software. I have lots of answers to issues that can be very helpful when searching. It sucks that Spez has forced so many people to delete important help like that.
Export them and be good.
Export them where? I have tens of thousands of posts and comments. Idk how to easily find the ones that would be relvant and then idk where I would put them that they would turn up in a search. Right now if you search for an issue that I have a resolution for, it will come up with the Reddit post or reply that I've made. I don't know what I would do with them if I exported them so that people could find them.
Thanks for that, the only reason I go to reddit anymore is because it pops in my search results, usually when I'm trying to solve a tech problem.
I relate to this, but my issue when they banned my account with over 90k karma and four years of engagement, they banned me and any new account got suspended immediately.. even after trying the VPN way.... So when I try to delete the accounts... Reddit won't let me delete them always says sorry you can't do that right now try again later.. but because it's banned/permanently suspended.. I can't see anything on the profile either. I am beyond done with Reddit
I feel that. Last year I had a 12 year account with about 140k karma permabanned for linking to rarbg on a TV series sub. My mistake but there was no warning. After that, every account I tried making got nuked for ban circumventing within a week of creating it, which made it impossible to use reddit for things like BST communities, which was pretty much all my activity was anyway
I just got permabanned for saying “cunt” because it’s sexist hate speech.. dick is allowed but cunt isn’t? I think the neckbeard mods are just addicted to brandishing their internet authority because they’re such losers in real life.
Relevant username. Nobody was more thin skinned than R*ddit mods
What's dead may never die.
I had the same policy, and I feel the same after leaving. I read the news more though, it's less biased when you see all the other stories that aren't outrage porn.