Does anyone regret deleting their Reddit account?
Does anyone regret deleting their Reddit account?
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?
I regret that reddit got the point where I felt like it was my only option. That hasn't changed since deleting my account
I am sure there's a significant survivorship bias to the responses you will be getting on this platform, but I really am glad to be off of Reddit.
It has allowed me to find other discussion platforms online (Lemmy) that feel more genuine somehow, at least for now (I don't question if I'm talking to a human or a bot/shill).
I've also spent more time just learning and doing stuff that I am sure would have been simply wasted in the endless scrolling in Apollo.
The reddit I miss is not the reddit I left, nor the reddit that exists today.
Basically how I feel about one of my old jobs..
Not even a little bit
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
Lol nope.
Yes. There’s one niche sub I followed that I tried to recreate here but nobody uses it. It’s for a hobby of mine and I have a lot of questions about it.
same, I don't regret my exodus but I had to make the decision to force myself to find and/or bootstrap elsewhere what I was getting from reddit
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?
No regrets, I haven't fully broken the habit of reading a couple subs tho
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.
No, it was time to move on
Nope! Actually I'm kind of glad I did so. Lemmy is wayyyy nicer than that cesspool.
No regerts were had.
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)
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
Nope I don’t miss Reddit at all. Reddit is gonna burn and we are all here for it
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.
nostalgia, yes. but nicer pastures elsewhere now, time to move along.
Not at all, 11 years, and Lemmy now reminds me of the good ole days. It was time to move on
i didn't delete
Nah, when I think whether it was worth it overwriting 10+ years worth of content in Reddit I just look over and see them come up with yet another shit move. It instantly validates getting off that sinking ship.
After fucking up API access they decided to delete all PMs older than 2023, get rid of awards/gold, and add more dark patterns to force people to their garbage apps.
Seems now that they're gonna add "tipping" as if it was a disgusting instagram clone with 'content creators'
They're quickly tearing down everything that made Reddit unique at all. They don't want a discussion board, they want a tiktok clone or whatever.