Welp, I just deleted my 12 year old, 240k+ karma Reddit account
I was sort of holding on to hope, that something would change. Unfortunately, nothing did and so, here I am.
I'm really liking kbin so far, so I'm looking forward to spending more time with you all over here. ❤️
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I’m holding out on deleting mine until I know my comments and posts are staying gone. I went through PowerDeleteSuite twice and everything still came back, so we’ll see what happens.
I also don’t want to delete it because it’s closing the door on the time I spent there. Folks on Reddit helped me get through a lot of mess and sadness in my life. It feels like losing a friend.
I was holding onto my account as well. That was until just a few minutes ago. I was browsing /r/all to see if there was any remaining discussion on the API shutting down. I only came across a couple of threads, all of which, to varying degrees, misrepresented what is going on. Comments making lite of the impact of 3rd party apps dying, and completely ignoring the fact that the owner of Reddit is acting with complete disrespect towards those who made the platform what it is today.
At that moment, I didn't give a shit about my account anymore. Are there bots astroturfing the comment section? Maybe. Are there users who are acting a little smug because they don't feel negatively impacted at all yet? Probably. Whatever. They can have whatever is left of the site.
I'm not going to stand for this. It feels like in life, there are so many bad things that happen that we have no control over. This is something I have 100% control over. It's so simple, just never go on Reddit again.
It was never about Reddit in the first place. It was just about hopping onto a forum and talking about games, current events, memes, comics, art, cats, etc. If /u/Spez and his ilk are going to be so disrespectful towards those who want to facilitate said forum, then I'll find another one immediately.
It’s definitely more about the community than the actual site, that’s for sure. I haven’t been back on since Apollo dropped earlier tonight. Honestly not surprised that there are users being so crappy. They may not feel the impact now, but they will. And it will be interesting to watch the fallout from afar, and also to see how places like Kbin and Lemmy grow.
I totally agree with you… but don’t forget that lemmy.world ≠ lemmy. Kbin (afaik) is just another lemmy instance.
Kbin is its own separate software, not a Lemmy instance
yes, i know that now. Sorry for spreading false information.
Yeah, I was never on Reddit because it’s Reddit. It’s because that’s what replaced the insane number of forums I was an active user on.
Anything else that can provide me that however they want is where I’m gonna just go to for enjoyment. I am going to be bummed about no 3PA but simple mobile UI is enough to cater to me too lol.
My Reddit account is almost 13 years old, shame it ended this way. I didn’t delete it yet but all comments got edited.
I had the same feeling. It was a lot tougher for me to abandon reddit than Twitter, but ultimately I bit the bullet. I didn't delete my account but replaced all content with a message about the change. Hope it stays up 🤞
Yep. Reddit is basically Digg now. I'm actually excited to start new. I just hope we can get past the "we just hate reddit" phase and build a community talking about real things
Yeah, that happened to me too. From what I understand, there's like a 5 second cooldown when you edit/delete stuff, but PowerDeleteSuite doesn't take that into account so some stuff just gets skipped. I had to go back and manually edit a bunch of comments.
There is a fork that does: https://github.com/pkolyvas/PowerDeleteSuite
I’m double checking tomorrow to make sure things are actually gone this time. If not, I’ll go through this one. Thank you!
I feel like playing No Doubt's Don't Speak on repeat. It is a weird collective mourning we're going through.
Well done!!
Also, replace your comments with gibberish!
From the best I can tell mine has been staying deleted, although some keywords I thought I completely removed seemed to have still had some hits later, but not many. Hopefully most of what is left is just gibberish at this point. I meant to fully delete those, but oh well. I think it might make it easier for them to do roll backs when things are tagged with redact in the message sadly. I do just want to be done with it though.
I've threatened Reddit with legal action unless they remove my account at once and without hesitation. They are a fraudulent web forum, and are under indictment for illegally banning users who have no previous violations.
How long did it take for comments to come back?
It took about four days and every comment was back. I just checked this morning to see if anything has returned from when I cleared last night, and the more recent comments are gone, but I still have comments from last year that I'm working on now. My account is almost 10 years old, so I have a lot of activity to delete before deleting my account. Going to try the link from emrys a little ways up and see what happens there.
Oh, wow that long... Guess I didn't wait long enough to be sure. However 2 days in and I don't see comments that I saved a permalink to. (I did delete my account yesterday)
Yeah, I had noticed a few the next day and just manually edited and deleted them. I decided to wait a couple more days to see if anymore would come back and they all did.
I went through the link for PowerDeleteSuite that was posted a few comments up and that seemed to have done the trick. I deleted mine last night. Felt like closing a chapter.
I used the time delayed PDS and mine seem to still be gone...