Honestly, even if Lemmy doesn’t grow to be even 1% of the size of Reddit, I think I could seriously enjoy the smaller-community vibe way more. Reddit was starting to get ridiculously flooded with trash content and bots.
Deleted mine yesterday after 12 1/2 years. Felt pretty good actually.
I don’t know, it felt kind of mixed to me. I definitely had some feeling of mourning as I was deleting 11 1/2 years of my personal content. The same feeling you might have throwing out childhood toys, or more accurately like old diaries. Nevertheless, I felt strongly that it was the right thing to do to delete all my comments. They’re backup up but it’s all in JSON so I don’t think I’ll revisit it again.
Backed up and deleted all your posts and comments? Is there some sort-of simple way to do that, for people who’re not programmers?
I think there is a way to do it, but redditors have been encountering problems accessing the feature necessary for this kind of deletion.
Use https://codepen.io/j0be/full/WMBWOW/
you can backup your stuff, modify your stuff before deleting and regular delete as well.
Thank you.
Many of the subs have gone private and I can’t see any post or comment that I shared there on my profile. Would Power delete suite be able to get those? It seems that it can’t, but asking here incase if there’s some workaround.Or would I have to wait for the blackout to end and the subs to become public(if they decide so)?
PowerDeleteSuite
Thank you. Would it also work on my posts and comments in subs that went private?
I am not sure. It’s basically a script, so if you can’t do that now then you won’t be able to with PowerDeleteSuite.
PowerDeleteSuite creates a csv file with your deleted posts and comments, and using it is pretty simple
Thank you. Will it be able to get my posts and comments from subs that went private? Or will it only work on subs that are public?
I deleted mine after 3 years. First i was skeptical if i was doing the right thing, but now i am happy i did it.
I always found that smaller communities do better in the long term. All of the bigger communities I was a part of over the years are now dead or unrecognizable. All the smaller communities are still going strong, even 15 years later.
Deleted my alt, might delete my main also. Not realy attached to my account (it’s old, came over with the digg wave)
I don’t think I’ll completely abandon reddit after this, there’s so many obscure ass communities I’m on that couldn’t reasonably be rebuilt on here, but I’ll certainly be putting more of my time here than in reddit.
Finished deleting my posts and comments yesterday, once I’ve gone through my saved stuff and backed up anything I want to keep, my account is gone. I might even do a GDPR request etc just to be totally sure.
I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand: This is the way. But on the other hand: It’s pretty sad if all the knowlegde, that accumulated on reddit, would be lost. Whenever I was searching a problem on the web, there was a reddit post popping up describing exactly my problem and most of the time there was a solution.
That knowledge is with the users who propagated it and they can do it again
