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Yeah, delete your account too.
It's like Cortes burning the ships.
I'm mainly keeping an alt account for /r/SQL because for it's sort of a defacto professional repository (also the only place you can ask for and get a sciprt for a bespoke data cleaning on a large relational DB in about 60 minutes).
I do get deleting accounts (and I'm deleting my "main" just commenting account) but some of the accounts have literally irreplaceable info, not just in the tech space, but my god some of the guides for gaming in older games only exist on reddit (like getting a full 50 monuments in the original Guild Wars, or setting up a good build for Bioshock 2). So I'm keeping my "info" accounts for as long as I can, I know it adds value to reddit being assholes, but I feel it adds more value to a stressed out Admin over their head in a bad situation, or some frustrated retro gamer that doesn't want to know the glitch mode that everyone uses right now.
Pro-tip: don't make the same mistake that I did. Before deleting your account use one of those tools to mass-edit all of your comments (forgot what the tool were called tho), replace the text with either a dot or with something like "user has moved on to X social network", the less content reddit has the better. Why? Because fuck em, that's why.
I wish I thought about this before deleting my account
Would these tools still work after the API change?
Would fuck u/spez be bad?
It would probably get the comment removed.
Before deleting your account check your favorite subs to see if there's a poll regarding going on an indefinite blackout. One sub I used to frequent has a poll going this week and I couldn't vote since I deleted my account
that's a bold move ! Don't you have any feeling of lost ? I am asking because I am also considering leaving reddit for good.
Not really, I started using it in 2008 but it's changed a lot since then. Recently I've just been using it for talking about books and video games.
I'll be keeping mine but using a bot to scrub my comments and changing them to an anti-reddit sentiment.
I changed all my comments to one recommending Lemmy along with instructions on how to choose an instance.