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 here. Mastodon is nice, but never felt as good as Lemmy for me. Additionally the content here is much more interesting for me.
Same boat. But Twitter wasn't really my kind of social media anyway, maybe that's why Mastodon hasn't locked in?
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.
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.
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.
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
this makes my little archivist heart sad tbh. fuck spez.
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.
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.
You need to tell this to more people since they shouldn't destroy valuable information.
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?
Probably trying to get you to stay because you have "fans" now.
Those are just bots, fake girls
This is oddly exciting, like being a child again. I hope it grows into something great. Hello from kbin!
Thinking about doing the same to my acc with 250k+ karma.
Be sure and delete your posts/comments on your way out, no reason to leave behind free content.
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.
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.
Just found out it was my cake day today, was planning on deleting everything on the 30th but it would be funny if i did it on the 6th year of my account
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.
I feel the fresh air of a new internet breeding <3
Unsubscribed from everthing last night, went to check today and i have 2 subs.
funny stuff
Could they have been private when you unsubbed from everything else, and therefore not appear in your list of subreddits?
I was never subscribed to them...creepy? and something else random.
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.
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.
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.
better do it earlier, if you're late PowerDeleteSuite might not work
PDS will stop working in less than 3 hours from now, because Data API restrictions will start on June 19 2023 0000 hrs. I purged all my history outside of the subreddit I created, privatelife, and modcoord.
I used PowerDelete to replace my comments with Random Garbage, but it looks like only about 10% of comments actually got edited.
I have had to run it a few times, and Reddit appears to be restoring some comments as well in popular subs. I will keep it up until they ban me or July 1st hits. Then I will delete it all.
Last I heard it’s a bug with that version of the script
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.
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.
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.
this. Being someone who had used Reddit a lot for information gathering, it really sucks that it had to go this far, so much information is being lost out of all this.
well done. come over to lemmy and help pls. i have thousands of reddit accounts. all shall be deleted. The Ancient Ones shall rise again!!!! WOLOLOLOLOLLOLLLO!!!!!!
Same, 15+ years, although I don't yet have a plan to delete my account. There may arise a need to leverage it in some other protestful way.
Like selling the account to a spammer lol
Hypothetically, if there were a market for 12yr old reddit accounts, where would something like that be? So I can make sure to never go there, being the owner of a 12yr old reddit account myself.
As someone with a 10 year old account myself I would also like to know where and who to avoid.
Fyi accounts like yours can fetch above $200 on some sites. Sure they'll be used to advertise and spam but is that really your problem now?
I have several accounts I'd like to see about selling. Where do I go exactly?
I've found playerup to be a site that has a board for selling.
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