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For those asking, I used redact.dev to delete my stuff. It's available on lots of platforms including mobile.

Personally, I always deleted and re-created accounts after a year at most. Still have my current but I've hardly used it since migrating.

When I deleted my account a few years back, I felt similar but mostly relief actually.

The sad part is that we spend so much of our lives in our phones. I don't like that it's reddit that gets the data, it's much better if it's not under some corporation, but I wish we enjoyed our lives more instead. But they are often boring and routine since our daily energy goes into working for someone so we can pay bills and have a place.

Yeah. I'm feeling like doing the same. I did not post much, and what I did, did not gain much traction. But I think it's time to leave that place.

I was going to overwrite mine after 14 years but a significant event made me hold off. My home city in the UK has been in the news for all the wrong reasons and r/nottingham is useful to keep up with events without having to trawl through the mainstream media and all the right-wing trolling that follows them. Maybe next week when I get back home and things have calmed down.

I couldn't truly nuke my account. I'm studying for mcat and r/MCAT has a ton of better explanations for aamc (test maker) practice tests.

I sort use Lemmy 90% and reddit 10%.

I also installed blacklist to filter out reddit content (their is a toggle to show hidden reddit searches in worst case if needed). This kinda helps give visibility to other sites.

Nope, I did the same yesterday without looking back. I feel happy not to use this corporate crap anymore.

Not at all, I love deleting and forgetting old stuff

I am struggling to go and do it myself but this helps seeing someone with 12 years of history. Would love to be able to download the 10,000+ pages of stuff I wrote though to not lose it forever.

Over a decade on my account, not sure the actual year. I won't be nuking my account, personally. I'm happy with kbin for now and haven't opened reddit since Monday.

I had this feeling when deleting another social media account. On a good note, it's fleeting. Now most are in the void for me.

Geez you didn’t save the content beforehand? I would absolutely have found a way to archive that stuff first

here's a question, wouldn't it be more impactful to encourage users to redact with a protest statement promoting fedverse first?

assuming they're doing a 30 day backup scheme then this becomes part of their working set going forward. messing with the data in this way especially if we can do it in volume might make it harder for LLMs to extract useful information from our noise.

we then can then start deleting our posts as a second protest after that.

thoughts?

Why delete though? Its all still there in Reddit's database.