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Im working up the courage to. Ill never go back, but it is also hard to delete that much history just for a statement

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[–] Lemmington@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 years ago

My account is one I made for work related purposed and has ~140 karma with very little identifiable information about me. I won't delete it, but I'm no longer using Reddit as a time-waster. I'm diversifying and have signed up here, kbin, Mastodon and PixelFed.

[–] beepnoise@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

Mate I deleted my account as soon as they announced the API change.

I know that BS trajectory. Reddit has been killing off the mobile website for a while, probably going for the old reddit too.

Fuck 'em.

[–] vulfneck@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I haven't yet, but will do on the 30th (after running Redact) before Sync stops working. What I have done is requested my data, removed all the posts and customisation from the subs I moderate (r/fryup being the biggest at 30k users) and set them to private.

[–] stappern@feddit.it 2 points 2 years ago

I deleted my accounts every few years anyway

[–] LiarBesidalAll@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I used the power delete suite to get a backup of all my shit, change all comments to "bye reddit" and then delete them. I'm done with reddit unless spez is gone and they back track waaaay the fuck back

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[–] Silviecat44@vlemmy.net 2 points 2 years ago

I have not deleted it yet in hopes that they will roll back / cancel the api changes. I will not be using it until they do however. Lemmy seems like a really wholesome place so far.

[–] Rashnet@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

June 30th is my date. I have a 13 year old account and a 8 year old account. I'm considering options what to do with the accounts. I'm split between selling them or nuking all the comments and deleting them.

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[–] 888@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

I've deleted my 16 years worth of comments and post history. I now spend my time between here and Tildes, and just go back to reddit watch it burn.

I've barely got any posts on there, so I've kind of just left my account for now. I'll purge it later on once I feel like all of my niche communities I need are elsewhere.

I however, do not visit it more than once a day now though, and I expect that frequency to drop-off (primarily for local level news right now - too small to expect them to migrate elsewhere for now)

[–] CaptainEffort@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

I’m waiting til after the blackout. Afterwords I’m pulling the plug.

Deleted my account & the 3rd party app on my phone. I'm only checking select subreddits through Libreddit (until it stops working).

[–] j_roby@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I plan to, and almost certainly will by the end of the month.
I'm sticking around just long enough to see how the blackout goes and to watch a bit of the resulting dumpster fire after tho.

RIP to RIF

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[–] Ebahn13@pawb.social 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Just did it yesterday after realizing that the only real use Reddit got was bookmarking funny cats and doom scrolling. Twitter is next, just gotta save some "useful media" first

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[–] sparklingsquirrel@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

I already deleted all my comments and posts and when the time comes and RIF is down I'll delete my whole account.

I’ll be deleting my 10+ year account once Apollo dies. May lurk in a few communities for a bit until there’s something similar here.

[–] dylan@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 years ago

I was always a lurker on Reddit so I don’t have to worry about purging post or comment history. I literally just haven’t gotten around to deleting it yet. I’ll miss the more local niche communities, but they’ll show up here and in other places in time.

[–] __jov@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

I won't delete my account, atleast not in the foreseeable future. Won't install the official app though and stop using reddit on mobile entirely. There's just so much resources and old content available on reddit, and a lot that I've saved, that's next to impossible to migrate anywhere. I'll keep my account for that, and just that so I can access it when I need to.

[–] bryan7675@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

My plan is to drop and delete Reddit on June 30th.

What I have not figured out yet, is where to post my goodbye. Any ideas?

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[–] AuspiciousPotato@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've deleted all the posts in my 12 year account but I find it hard to nuke the whole account.

They sure aren't going to make any more money off of me though.

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[–] luispotro@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

I'm kind of emotionally attached to my main and alt account to do that, yet.

[–] manifex@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

I'm not deleting, just abandoning. I had another person step up to mod the only community I was modding.

[–] williamallenbro@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

I think I'm still holding out hope that they will come to their senses, but I'll probably delete eventually.

[–] HippoMoto@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Fully deleted. Never going back. To be honest, I was looking for a reason to get off. Glad it’s done.

[–] ZKtheMAN@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

I'm out. Nixed mine. Honestly I was never a huge power user so it's not too big a loss.

[–] jbrtn@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

Purged everything this morning bar for one last comment on the Apollo thread. Currently using kbin.social - exploring my options, but I wont be returning to Reddit.

[–] eric5949@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

No, but I'm migrating most of my usage here. Some small subreddits will probably never be replicated here and I like talking about smaller games and bands sometimes.

[–] PCChipsM922U@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I don't plan on deleting my reddit accounts to be honest, I put way too much work in them, plus they have some saved posts that I really need and use as a reference from time to time. Also, there are some communities there that I don't believe will shift over here (for some, I am sure they won't, since they're other not that big amd moderation is not a problem for them), so I'll mostly be using Lemmy and Reddit interchangeably.

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