Asklemmy

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 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.

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 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.

After that horrible AMA, I stopped using it, what an absolute train wreck

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.

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 :)

Reddit deleted it for me. Permabanned my 9 year old account for "abusing the report feature" because I dared to report obvious report bots.

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.

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

I deleted my Reddit account today right after that insane AMA

I think I'll leave my Reddit account and not delete it. My account suddenly going silent, after 13 years of near-daily activity, at this of all times, ought to make the statement I wish to make.

I'm wondering whether I should post a goodbye message on my Reddit profile page with a link to my new home here on Lemmy. See if they have the audacity to ban me for “spamming” my own profile page. Even if they do, it'll be one of numerous accounts falsely banned for “spam” in the middle of a well-publicized uproar and mass migration away from Reddit, and that isn't fooling anyone. Either way, my statement is made.

Just deleted my ~13 year old account, I was never attached to it much, mostly lurked on subreddits that I enjoyed. Looking to be more active on lemmy though!

I just deleted mine. I figured if I can't really remember what I had saved, then I probably don't really need any of that stuff anyways.

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.

Mine is deleted. 12 years gone. But in the end, I think I'm better off for it.

Deleted my 14 year old account yesterday. Didn't save shit. Fuck that place.

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.

I haven't and I won't. As much as I hate the API changes and as much as I hate being forced to use the terrible official app, there are communities on Reddit that won't be going dark indefinitely that I am an active part of and wish to remain part of.

Lemmy is a great concept in theory, but in practice it leads to what was a single community on Reddit being spread over several instances. A community with tens of thousands on Reddit might find a few communities spread over a handful of instances and because a community doesn't show up in the Communities list under All until someone does the !community@instance.domain command for that specific community (meaning they physically went to other instances to find that community on that other instance and then in practice manually added it to the list)

This also means that as the amount of instances grows, specific communities will become even harder to find as the instances themselves become more obscure and hard to find.

Already have

I just deleted all my data from Reddit using Redact. Honestly, it's heartbreaking to delete all of my activity, but I'd still live

I think I’m going to on my next day off. During the blackout. See ya never spez!

I'm not, at most I'm gonna park it and just never use it again. If they want to delete it, they'll have to introduce an inactive account deletion policy

I will keep it and see. If Reddit decides to roll back the API changes and starts listening to the community, I'll probably keep using it. But if they don't, I'm conflicted. Deleting it would be nice, because they lose their interactions, posts and data, which is what makes them money. But there are also some posts with important answers to niche questions, and the random stranger looking that questions up in 3 years would also be affected. So for now, I'll probably leave it abandoned and I'll see if I delete it when they make some more stupid changes.

I can't because there are no bulgarians on lemmy, I need r/bulgaria

Not yet. I'm waiting to see if Reddit will send me my data. Then, even if they don't, I'll delete my posts and comments by the end of the month.

In an effort to support new communities here I'm going to let my reddit account linger so I can pull interesting content from there and post it here. At least for a week or two while things get established

I will delete it when Sync for Reddit cannot be used anymore. But I will stop using reddit anyway

I'm waiting to see what happens; they've announced the API screw-over of the 3rd party apps, but if the protests on the 12th+ blackout the site (you can't bill advertisers if there ain't no eyeballs) there might be some concession.

Look, Reddit hasn't been profitable - yet. The VCs who dumped in 1.3Bn bucks want it back, and I don't begrudge anyone for trying to make their own ham sandwich; we all gotta eat. My opinion is that the popular 3rd party app developers and API users should have been consulted and involved in the decision-making. And face it: apart from what we've paid to our favourite app developers we've received an awesome internet community for zero cost for over a decade (some of us anyway)!

How hard is it to go to the Apollo guy or the RiF folks and say: hey. we appreciate you making awesome apps. We need to start earning money. But you too need to make money. How can we work together, to maybe put a few more ads, or ad revenue generating "premium" features without screwing each other over, or our users?

So Ill wait to see what happens in the coming week and ride Reddit-is-Fun out to the bitter end and the lights go out and then probably delete my Reddit account then. But I've made the first steps. Im here ain't I?

Oh, and put in a request now to get an archive of all your Reddit content. I suspect that department will be quite busy in the coming weeks. https://www.reddit.com/settings/data-request

Im eager to see what form it comes in. If my posts and comments come with some context around them then Im fine with just deleting my account. I hope the links are permalinks so the backreferences to REddit stay intact (AND, you don't need the API to access, you could essentially "scrape" the context of your posts). I've been trying to find a way to search my own comments and posts for years (there are tools, but I want an OFFLINE archive of my stuff - I frequently find myself replying to someone and going hey wait Ive already answered this, now where did I put that comment...

I had been without a Reddit account for a while using Infinity (3rd party app) without being logged in. I didn't care about being able to post of comment but it's much more fun on Lemmy! Lemmy is much nicer than Reddit in my opinion and I'll end up stopping using Reddit completely

I nuked both of my alts, but I haven't been able to pull the trigger on the 10 year old main account yet.

Maybe once I get the rest of my recipes and stuff over here I'll scorch the earth, but there are still too many memories in there.

I didn't quit Reddit. Reddit banned my favorite community because the shitposts were making their embedded national security goons too nervous. This was nearly 3 years ago.

I did today. My account was about 5.5 years old and I have to admit it was somewhat hard at the beginning. But to be honest I already don’t care anymore.

That API stuff was a huge shitshow that made me really angry. I even would have paid a subscription to be able to keep using Apollo. But if Reddit decides to bring people out of business they are not going to do business with me either.

I'll try to back up all the content I created over the years (mostly memes) and my comments, but I don't feel like using Reddit anymore.

It was convenient, but their business practices are a slap in the face of too many users, mods and devs.

I have to be 100% honest, probably won't delete it

Though come the 12th I'll be uninstalling Relay and hopefully make something of Lemmy

Done some weeks ago already. Reddit is increasingly suffering from what Doctorow calls enshittyfication and that led me to delete my account.

I deleted mine nearly directly on the spot when the news about shutting out 3rd-party apps hit the net. No big deal.