I’d been using Reddit for 6 years; thousands of hours. All gone, in a quick(ish) running of a script. And once it’s gone, it’s gone. Link rot is gonna be so much bigger soon. And everything that represents a mark on the platform from me will be gone.

I remember spending time on basically every interest I’ve had on there. I remember the memes, the political discussions, the anticipations of football transfers, the stunning source-gathering work on the Ukraine war, the shitposts, the communities willing to help me on the most stupid of questions. The hours spent defending random pixels on a canvas modified by other communities with friends, the awestruck silence of the Snap both in movie form and Reddit form. The support for me as a person when I needed it the most and real life couldn’t, wouldn’t, didn’t give to me.

And in a few minutes, that’ll all be gone. It’s already going away as I type this. Almost feels like a microcosm of my own mortality. Maybe I’m being overly sentimental, but it hurts. Anyone else feel the same?

  • Tigerfishy@lemmy.world
    2·
    3 years ago

    Someone had posted the idea of unsubbing from everything so the numbers weren’t inflated and I thought that was a good idea…so I did one by one and it just sucks, lots of good, obscure communities. Dumb convos. I really loved the politics megathreads especially, since literally no one else in my life carew like me lol

    But I just have no interest in going back. And honestly I wasted too much time on Reddit. And Lemmy is my go to, and soon I’ll use it for news/info etc without all the absolute timewasting

  • Wolf Link 🐺@lemmy.world
    2·
    3 years ago

    9 years, and I’ve been a content creator that made it into the “top 1%” of my main sub. More than 200 videos (that have since been put on youtube instead) and just as many written guides, countless comments offering in-depth help etc.

    I would be lying if I said the decision was easy, but I nuked everything I could. The posts / submissions are gone, a good chunk of the comments is deleted as well. Sadly shreddit didn’t quite catch everything and now that the account is deleted I can no longer manually nuke my old comments.

    The “interesting” part is that I don’t even use third party apps - I use Firefox on my laptop. I also never used bots for moderation purposes as I haven’t been a mod - whenever I called out scammers / repost bots, I did it with a comment warning others and a report to the actual mods. The various changes u/spez wants to still implement wouldn’t even have directly affected me personally, but I found his attitude and behaviour just so incredibly sh*tty, hostile and egotistical that I decided to pull my content from his dumpster fire of a website in solidarity with the people who are directly affected.

    • Annoyed_Crabby@lemmy.world
      2·
      3 years ago

      Yeah, his attitude and the whole fiasco signify the direction the platform. Today it won’t affect you, but tomorrow he will force something unfavorable to you just so he can lure in and makes these teenager an addict.

  • Ben@lemmy.world
    2·
    3 years ago

    I use RSS feeds.

    For a long time I tried to avoid being roped in by the biggest dominant players. I was once on holiday for a month and found myself locked out of my Google account because of something that happened on my Youtube channel whilst I was away (4 spam uploads - I have no idea how, but even deleting them didn’t help).

    After my first few months on Reddit, the same thing happened. One subreddit for my main torrent client banned me for telling someone I think their idea was a bit stupid. Zero tolerance… so I ended up having to leave all that behind and start up a new account.

    I left Microsoft for Linux in 2013, and apart from a few evil email accounts, I have very nice (free) secure accounts too.

    I don’t use Chrome, or chromium browsers - I use Firefox.

    So really, discussing Firefox on r/Firefox on Reddit always struck me as being a rather stupid idea.

    I just hope that over the next ten years we’ll see a newer, and less centralised form of content begin to emerge…

    Can you believe that people would go to Reddit and have serious discussions about how bad Google is, about how bad Youtube is, about how evil Facebook is.

    This is just another WAKE UP call.

  • Zardoz@lemmy.world
    1·
    3 years ago

    Are you actually able to delete your stuff? I’ve tried a couple days in a row to delete my posts and comments and they kept coming back. I even tried editing my posts but they just revert back to the original.

    Haven’t tried in a day or so but I assume reddit is restoring from a backup or something

  • edgarallenpwn@lemmy.world
    1·
    3 years ago

    I’m at about 50/50. I realized I would just scroll a lot through junk and got some time back by not doing that. I set up an RSS feed for a few news websites that has replaced reddit for current events and tech news I care about.

    However I haven’t found a good replacement for hobby boards or video games I’m currently playing. I’m on a few game discords but I hate the chat format. I would rather have threads I could read about specifics topics instead of catching up on 100 post an hour with no order. For hobbies, I found that the fediverse has me covered on the selfhosted front, but things like comic books and vinyl really hasn’t taken off that much here.

  • confluence@lemmy.world
    1·
    3 years ago

    I guess it’s not too different than moving to a new town. The last town is still there, but it’s not the same anymore. Those memories, though… You will make new memories in the new town, but you’ll never lose the memories of the old town.

    That being said, WELCOME TO LEMMYTOWN, FRIEND! I’m new here too. Let’s make some new memories in a new context ❤️

  • Candelestine@lemmy.world
    1·
    3 years ago

    Actually, I’m not.

    I kinda suspected an internet cancer diagnosis pretty early, so started mentally preparing myself to say goodbye. I’ve also been doing this thing where often I write specifically for the AIs, going out of my way to be polite, clear and extra explanatory. It was kinda exhausting though, so I’m glad I can stop now.

    I’m still a fairly nice internet guy, but I can say whatever the fuck now.

  • BeardyGrumps@lemmy.world
    1·
    3 years ago

    12 years here; started erasing two weeks ago and just keep checking to see if anything has been recovered. So far it’s just been the odd comment here and there that’s resurfaced and then swiftly deleted. A lot of technical know how and solutions wiped as I used to frequent subs on Microsoft technologies. Feels for people who will experience issues whose solutions have now been wiped, but there was no way in hell that I was going to allow Reddit to make click revenue from the posts and comments that I submitted. Hopefully with time those subs will migrate to here and we start building a thriving community.

    The switch to lemmy was easy; I feel this is much more of a an accepting place. I spend more time on here than I did on Reddit as am finding interest in communities that I previously would not have visited on Reddit. (I joined several weeks ago but on a different instance and switched to lemmy.world as it had a better fit)

  • Quazatron@lemmy.world
    1·
    3 years ago

    15 years.

    I’m a shy person and was just now getting comfortable posting stuff.

    Oh well.

    It’s sad that a lot of genuinely useful comments are going to be lost in the purge.

  • ClassyHatter@lemmy.world
    1·
    3 years ago

    Make sure that your changes actually “sticks”. There are multiple reports of people trying to delete or edit posts, only for them to come back soon after. It seems that deleting isn’t possible and when mass editing posts, there needs to be long enough delay (5 seconds or so) between each edit.