I just ran Power Delete Suite on all of my comments and self posts, stating they have been removed in protest.

On July 1st, I am deleting every comment and post, then closing my account. Reddit was fun while it lasted.

The fediverse is still raw, but I see massive protentional here, and I am ready for this journey with all of you.

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    It’s crazy isn’t it? Six months in and Mastodon still hasn’t clicked for me, but six days here and I know I’m not going back to Reddit.

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      Same boat. But Twitter wasn’t really my kind of social media anyway, maybe that’s why Mastodon hasn’t locked in?

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        Twitter’s only purpose is for blue checkmarks to scream into the void, but why do that when you can watch more fun versions of blue checkmarks shitpost on Lemmy instead?

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        It’s the voting system that does it imo. When everyone just shouts random thoughts into the void hoping it goes viral the overall quality tends to be low. It makes for a decent RSS feed, but so do RSS feeds.

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        twitter is way more useful for following people or groups for news/updates than posting comments and forming communities

        like a secondary social media platform you can link elsewhere

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        Yeah it took me a couple of tries before I got Twitter, so I’ve been sticking with Mastodon so far. This might well be what I was looking for all along though.

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        Yeah, I never had a Twitter, and when I tried mastodon I got visually assaulted by a full screen picture of a wang, so I’m good here.

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      My sentiments exactly! It feels like Lemmy is exploding. But like, a good explosion.

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        Well, you can access Lemmy posts from Mastodon, but it doesn’t seem to be the ideal way to do it.

        I would love it if Mastodon really was a Twitter replacement, but although the functionality is there, the atmosphere never seems to get as chaotic and joyful as Twitter could be. Maybe that will just take time though.

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          I haven’t been able to find account with some like nuked and dank ass memes yet. I just want to find account that straight up bullshit

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            I somehow ended up following a bunch of trans anarchists. So my page is filled with that and some New York Times posts. It’s pretty entertaining.

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      Same here. Mastodon is nice, but never felt as good as Lemmy for me. Additionally the content here is much more interesting for me.

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    I wouldn’t delete your account (in case Reddit tries to replace the deleted comments as they have been doing). But I would unsubscribe from every subreddit.

    Additionally, if you have any very useful comments/posts, repost them to Lemmy and then edit them to leave some information that will redirect users to your posts in Lemmy. That way good information isn’t lost and you’ll help to slowly drive users towards Lemmy over time.

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      I’ve done a data request with Reddit and will probably attempt to use a script to download my entire history (plus context, if possible) before July 1, then I’ll see about overwriting the comments.

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      I did the same to my 10 year old, 120k karma account; all that was lost was stupid jokes and meme references.

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      For that reason, I’m leaving mine up. Some might be useless, sure. But others I put some effort in. They’re a little piece of Internet history, and I’m loath to set fire to that. I can still move to another platform while leaving my account intact.

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    You might want to hold off on the deletion part… After the comments about “reddit is restoring posts”, I logged back in and saw my entire history had been restored after 24 hours. That includes messages I deleted years ago.

    So, went through and re-ran power delete suite again. Next day, there were a few back.

    Going the lather-rinse-repeat route with wiping them. I figure if they want to burn CPU cycles recovering my stuff, I can burn their CPU cycles deleting it again. At some point I’ll see about sending them a support request to remove all of my data if it keeps occurring.

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      Something to keep in mind - any comments you made in subs that went private were not affected by PDS, because they were made private with the rest of the sub.

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    This is oddly exciting, like being a child again. I hope it grows into something great. Hello from kbin!

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    I’ve already started moving over to lemmy but I’m also seeing some weird stuff on my Reddit account. I’ve had more ‘Followers’ sign on to my account in the last 2 weeks than I’ve seen in the last 3-4 years. I don’t believe these are real followers. What would be the reason for this? Is Reddit playing some sort of statistics game with long-time Reddit accounts?

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      They’re spam-bots that will either link you to a NSFW page or try to scam you in some other way

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      That was started before since end of May. Some bots are pretending to be hot girls living nearby you and to catch your attention are just following you, because if they send a message or start chat they will be banned in a few hours

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    Unsubscribed from everthing last night, went to check today and i have 2 subs.

    funny stuff

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    The mass exodus of Twitter and Reddit is like the burning of Alexandria, digital.

    How many tutorials or sourced synopsis of events or other long form written media created by volunteers was lost to all of this? Its insanity.

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      I have such mixed feelings about all of this. I get why, stick it to Reddit and show them we have the control, but we just burn ourselves doing it. Kinda sucks all the way around.

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        The tutorials and guides on reddit are invariably reposts from somewhere else. There will be the occasional gem that is nowhere to be found but on balance I’d say reddit could vanish and it wouldn’t matter in the long run.

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    I have over 13k. My bot is keeping my comment list at 15 max and I’m not posting content. Been trying out kbin instead.
    I’m hanging around until the end of June, but once Apollo is dark, I’m gone.

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    Good stuff. I deleted my account from 2011 the other day. This shit is stupid. Honestly already like kbin better anyway from a purely aesthetic perspective.

    Reddit was fun while it lasted.

    This is basically my attitude as well.

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    Should hold off on deleted your account for the time being. Many subs are polling users on which direction to take and I’ve been messaging mods with short comments to move to lemmy.

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    10 years and 180,000 karma. I nuked all of my comments and all but a couple of my posts.

    However, I have seen that some of my comments are still there on posts despite not showing up in my comment history.

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      i have this exact same thing happening. Comments are deleted from my comment history but when going to the post that contains the comments they still show up. Can this be because of some form of caching going on?

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      Yeah, reddit does that. Kinda shady tbh. That’s why it’s recommended to use a script to scramble all old comments before deleting them

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    I probably wouldn‘t remove the account itself
    Otherwise you can‘t remove them again when they get restored by the admins

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      Yeah. I deleted my content and account. Next day content was back, but my account was still gone.

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        Do you live in Europe? Perhaps you can request the Right to be Forgotten (GDPR). If a lot of European do it, that might pressure Reddit.

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          You can also make a request under the CCPA if you live in California and the DPA if you live in the UK.

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            Unfortunately no enforceable measures that I am aware of for residence of New England.

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    I had two accounts, one 8 years old and one 4 years old, with a combined karma of about 120k. Deleted them both earlier. Nothing of value was lost; the only “conversation” you can find on Reddit is salty arguments anyway.