Wiping my Reddit account as we speak as the 30th begins to roll on in. Anyone struck by nostalgia?
I'd been using Reddit for 6 years; thousands of hours. All gone, in a quick(ish) running of a script. And once it's gone, it's gone. Link rot is gonna be so much bigger soon. And everything that represents a mark on the platform from me will be gone.
I remember spending time on basically every interest I've had on there. I remember the memes, the political discussions, the anticipations of football transfers, the stunning source-gathering work on the Ukraine war, the shitposts, the communities willing to help me on the most stupid of questions. The hours spent defending random pixels on a canvas modified by other communities with friends, the awestruck silence of the Snap both in movie form and Reddit form. The support for me as a person when I needed it the most and real life couldn't, wouldn't, didn't give to me.
And in a few minutes, that'll all be gone. It's already going away as I type this. Almost feels like a microcosm of my own mortality. Maybe I'm being overly sentimental, but it hurts. Anyone else feel the same?
Deleted all of my posts and comments with the 'Nuke Reddit History' extension earlier today and deleted my main account as well.
I do have a 2nd backup account (with no posts or comments) where I now have subscribed to all of the same channels as my main account had. I decided to do that as I want to wait until most of the channels I have subscribed to on Reddit are on 'Lemmy' before I delete everything that has to do with Reddit to do.