Just deleted my Reddit account because of a couple reasons. One, I barely used it after the API pricing protests, and two, Reddit is allowing users’ posts to be used as AI training data, which I find reprehensible for obvious reasons. I will admit that I feel pretty sad about it, though, because I made my account back before Reddit completely went down the shitter and was actually kinda decent. I hope more people use Lemmy or Kbin because it’s feeling pretty lonely here in the Fediverse. Sorry this vent isn’t particularly sad. I’m just kinda bummed about this is all.

P.S. obligatory fuck u/spez lololololol

  • over_clox@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    2 months ago

    I was perma-banned from Reddit after 7 years for mentioning facts about Elon Musk and his Boring Company’s Not a Flamethrower contraption. No hate speech, nothing obscene or gory, just plain facts, with supporting links. I appealed twice, they denied my appeal.

    I’ve left my account intact though, but have highly debated with myself whether to use one of the mass overwrite services to edit all my posts and comments into pure random garbage, then rewrite all of that again to say FUCK SPEZ!!!

    From my understanding, they keep a backup of your previous comments before your edit, so it’s necessary to overwrite it at least twice, or they can just flip the switch and restore all your mass edited comments.

    The only reason I haven’t done it yet is because my account still allows me to view communities tagged as NSFW, but hell, the only time I visit Reddit anymore is when someone happens to toss me an interesting link.

    IDGAF if the AI has already ‘learned’ things from my posts, I probably partly corrupted it’s digital brain anyways. Many of my posts were factual, some were random rants, and a good number of them were just lighthearted trolling.

    If I stumbled into a post showing some sort of random roadkill or some nasty shit, half the time I might be like ‘Are you gonna eat that?’. Yes, I might be partly to blame for why AI has such a poor concept of food consumption. 😂🤣

    Obligatory FUCK SPEZ!!!

    Edit: https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite

    • FiveMacs@lemmy.caEnglish
      11·
      2 months ago

      Use old.reddit

      It don’t give two shits about NSFW content and still shows you everything

      Using Reddit’s trashy normal site has the weird ‘create an account bullshit to see NSFW content’

      The day that stopped is the last day I would ever touch that site.

      • flicker@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 months ago

        To add to this; if you get one of those “this community isn’t reviewed please make an account” things, old.reddit gets past all that, too.

      • over_clox@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        Well hot damn, I didn’t know old.reddit could do that. Thank you very kindly for sharing that knowledge!

        Welp, one of these days soon, whenever I get a chance, I might take the deep dive and nuke my Reddit altogether. 👍

    • soapyplasm@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      9·
      2 months ago

      Damn, I didn’t know you could just overwrite all your comments and stuff. I should’ve done that, but alas, what’s done is done. Maybe if I changed them all to “fuck u/spez” my whole account would be nuked, comments and all

    • 4am@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      I’m sure they keep all the edits, it won’t matter how many times you overwrite it you’re just making new versions.

  • Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    2 months ago

    I wanted to since I left, which was in my case to read an absurd ban and never return.

    I won’t go back, but I haven’t deleted the two accounts. Partly out of apathy based on it already being scraped, partly out of a hoarder nature (big part here), and partly for the off-chance to see some witty shit I wrote in an AI hallucination.

  • TommySoda@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    2 months ago

    I’ve been here since Reddit is Fun went down. Been a little over a year I think and I have no regrets. It took some getting used to, but it’s honestly been an amazing experience. After this long I don’t even miss reddit anymore. It may be a little lonely here sometimes, but it’s getting bigger every day and I hope you find a home here. And personally, I like the smaller size. Brings back the vibes of the older internet in a good way.