cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1277945
When the whole Reddit fiasco started happening, I saw a lot of people wiping and deleting their Reddit accounts and moving elsewhere, like here on Lemmy.
Now that it’s starting to die down a little bit, does anyone regret doing that? Or are you glad that you took that step?
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Not even a little bit
Nope! Actually I’m kind of glad I did so. Lemmy is wayyyy nicer than that cesspool.
Removed by mod
Absolutely not, and it was a 13 year old account too. My only regret is not doing it sooner tbh.
I don’t regret it at all. I feel better off
No, it was time to move on
nostalgia, yes. but nicer pastures elsewhere now, time to move along.
I downloaded my comments/posts, then nuked with powerdeletesuite. :) Kept my account open, purely so that I have control over it, and Reddit couldn’t un-delete without me having access to it.
So far, I miss knowing wrestling news as it was my main source of that, but… Meh no don’t miss it much at all :)
I tried to nuke it too… turns out reddit has been ignoring delete and edit requests. I think they are rate capping the requests.
After running powerdeletesuite multiple times with all kinds of settings, I could still find comments of mine not deleted.
I also requested a GDPR set of account information. ALL of my deleted/edited comments are still there.
Oh damn! I there were about 50 stubborn ones that powerdelete couldn’t scrub, so I did those manually, but… I think I’ll do the same, a fresh gdpr dataset after a few weeks would be interesting…
:) Thanks for the heads up, they’ve become such a weird company, or maybe always were?
It was tough at first, but I haven’t logged in or looked since deleting all of my comments. The only time I go there now is when I absentmindedly click a Google result.
How do you/did you delete your account? How can you make sure they don’t just undelete your stuff again?
I myself sent them a GDPR request to delete my accounts and all the associated data. Didn’t hear anything yet, but they still got three weeks time before I hire an attorney (or make a formal complaint with my local DPA)
Nope I don’t miss Reddit at all. Reddit is gonna burn and we are all here for it
Lol nope.
What’s Reddit?
An antiquated software where people were not able to edit titles when they made an error and just accepted it as the norm
Even if I wouldn’t have deleted, the experience I wanted from Reddit has been long gone so all they did was provide a reason for me to trash reddit entirely. A shame? Sure! But no regrets.
