This was a really hard decision for me but I purged all my posts, votes and comments via Shreddit. I then deleted all my accounts. I've been on Reddit since it was just a baby website. I love Reddit, the friends and the communities I was involved in changed my life for the better.
We'll see how it goes but the only way we are going to win this fight is to walk away from Reddit. We have to send a message to them and the only way to do that is to hit them where it really hurts, right in the wallet.
Change is a good thing and I am ready to embrace it. I'm all in on kbin now. Let's see where we go from here 🍻
I deleted all, all, I'd rather not be part of the next scrapping. In any case I can build my own AI with my own comments for my own personal gain if I want, at least I consented to that.
Can you provide a link to the "noise" memo that was leaked? I must've missed it because I haven't heard of this. If it convinced you and was the final straw to delete your account, I'd be interested in seeing it as well
I'm more set on overriding all my comments, but I'm still on the fence about deleting the whole account. At least, once I know with 100% certainty that they won't be reverted back to their original states (if possible)
I've deleted all my comments from the last 10 years a few days ago. Riding it out until the 30th, and then I'm out. kbin looks like the perfect replacement/alternative that I've seen so far.
I haven't deleted my accounts yet, but I blocked reddit in my router firewall. This past week I found myself repeatedly going there without thinking, like a genuine addiction.
I didn't realize until the blackout how bad Google search results are without Reddit. Everything from finding video game hints to recommendations on the best bicycle seats... All the best, trustworthy content was from users on Reddit.
I've compromised by using Google cached search results to avoid giving Reddit views.
I've started seeing threads on reddit now stating that deleted/edited comments are getting reverted to their original forms. This includes ones done from Shreddit and PowerDeleteSuite etc.
Honestly it kinda just looks like server issues to me with the delete request getting dropped before completion or something, but still showing correctly client-side until re-loaded.
That said, I've edited all my comments to gibberish and left them up in that state. I'll check and see if any are back in a week or two.
EDIT: I take it back, it's not server issues.
EDIT2: It seems like comments in private subs didn't properly save the edits.
I deleted a bunch of my posts and comments manually earlier this week (did not use any tools, just clicked edit > delete) and now all of those posts and comments are back. The posts showed as gone for several days between. This isn’t a server error.
It happened to me three times after using PDS. I ended up using a Tampermonkey script called Spaz's Reddit Delete, which also scrambles all comments and then deletes them, with an appropriate window of time between each action to avoid triggering any anti-spam response. This seems to have done the trick, and my comments or submissions haven't reappeared.
I personally would prefer to keep my comments and posts and just delete the account. That way others don't have to go to cached and archived versions of pages if a subreddit isn't privated to see the full context of a comment, and it's just better for overall preservation.
Same here. I don't want to wipe out all the valuable info I've contributed over the years just to satisfy a desire to get revenge. The amount Reddit as a company suffers from deleting a single account is negligible, but that account could have exactly what someone needs one day. We've already collectively lost a lot of knowledge and information in just the past 10-20 years due to things not being archived properly - think source code for old games, websites pre-Archive.org, out of print books, etc.
@Parallax@kbin.social yep, while i do agree everyone can decide if they want to delete their data it unfortunately causes loss of knoweldge possibly. Like i browse r/Latexadvice. If suddenly tons of people would decide to delete their comments lots of people trying to find information would suddenly have a way harder time.
This has to be bumped up higher, I think people are still deleting their accounts before making sure their comments are either staying deleted or rewritten!!!
After seeing this I deleted my account too. I’ve found alternatives and for some of my more niche interests, the forums are still active. Kinda fun living pre reddit.
Deleted my 1yo alt and my 12yo reddit account. Don't really use third party apps, but I their whole attitude was awful and it's not like thing are going to get better there.
I wonder how i'll go forward after Sync for reddit dies... Seems kinda hard to just completely stop using reddit when there are certain information communities i kinda depend on which are already pretty niche on reddit itself.
In a general sense I'm in favor of the community using the tools that are fully integrated to curate their experiences. If you desperately need lemmy.world and beehaw you can sign up someplace else, that doesn't block either. They don't have to deal with each other, and your experience continues on.
This doesn’t just send a message to Reddit. In fact, Reddit is failing to heed the lessons of history to their own current detriment and ultimate demise.
Community is everything in this landscape. Treat your user base like shit at your own peril.
After seeing this I deleted my account too. I’ve found alternatives and for some of my more niche interests, the forums are still active. Kinda fun living pre reddit.
I am keeping my reddit account but will be restricting use to r/HFY and r/askhistorians where I will mainly read and not comment. No activity beyond reading while this crap is happening.