My plan is to unsub from subreddits as I find comparable communities here until eventually there is nothing left in my feed to keep me at Reddit.
this post was submitted on 09 Jun 2023
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this is a pretty decent approach. glad you are here :-)
Thank you, I'm happy to be here. So tired of corporations ruining everything.
I've deleted all the posts in my 12 year account but I find it hard to nuke the whole account.
They sure aren't going to make any more money off of me though.
How did you delete all posts? (My account is also ~12 years old and I would like to start to clean it. Once that is done, I will nuke the account.)
I did today. My account was about 5.5 years old and I have to admit it was somewhat hard at the beginning. But to be honest I already donβt care anymore.
That API stuff was a huge shitshow that made me really angry. I even would have paid a subscription to be able to keep using Apollo. But if Reddit decides to bring people out of business they are not going to do business with me either.
I think i'll nuke mine after the AMA. Just one more hour!
Edit: its gone
π«‘ may your future be bright and the wind at your back!
I've deleted my comments and posts and find Reddit then restored them a few hours later.
So I've written some Python to delete them automatically and have it run on a schedule. Fuck 'em. A week later and Reddit are still restoring my data for the script to delete.
UPDATE: I pulled the plug
Just did it. removed everything with the PowerDelete script, then deleted my 12 year old account. Sad. I deleted all comments, too. Like many people here I find it sad, that this information is gone, but I do not want to give reddit traffic for my personal content.
After that horrible AMA, I stopped using it, what an absolute train wreck
Deleting the history was sad. I made backups of everything and pulled the trigger today, though I'm almost sad I won't be there to log-in tomorrow and see how barren it is with all the subreddits dark.
I don't plan on deleting my reddit accounts to be honest, I put way too much work in them, plus they have some saved posts that I really need and use as a reference from time to time. Also, there are some communities there that I don't believe will shift over here (for some, I am sure they won't, since they're other not that big amd moderation is not a problem for them), so I'll mostly be using Lemmy and Reddit interchangeably.
Please don't delete your Reddit account. It is of minimal impact to Reddit. Keeping a database of users and their posts is far less resourceintensive then actually serving them, Reddit won't care.
It does however screw ppl over when googling questions. We all know that adding site:reddit.com in google search is pretty much a must at this point when searching for solutions to obscure problems. Delete that and a bunch of potentially useful info is lost forever, and Reddit soldiers on without a care in the world.
If you insist upon deleting all your Reddit data, please archive it first, so valuable info isnt lost forever.
I thought the point was to remove the valuable content, not the cost of resources to Reddit? Valuable content means consumer views, and consumer views attract advertisers, and advertisers generate revenue, which Reddit does care about. If Iβd actually generated any content of lasting value over there, Iβd delete it and repost it here.
Agreed there, working in IT/DevOps I commonly find answers to technical problems by reading reddit threads. I don't really care if people delete memes, pictures of cats, stuff like that... But please keep the actual helpful knowledge.
The amount of Google searches I've done which are of the form:
site:reddit.com some issue
I think a Google result was how I stumbled across Reddit in the first place.
It does however screw ppl over when googling questions
isn't that the point? your content drives traffic to the website. Removing said content takes traffic away from reddit.
Yeah, perhaps i should've been clearer in my og comment. What im referring to as content that matters is stuff like snippets of code, solutions software/hardware problems, useful life advice. Obscure content that isn't found anywhere else on the web.
If you look at what drives the largest amount of traffic on Reddit, its all reposted content from various other sites, nothing we can't find elsewere. I wouldn't mind that type of content being removed as it can be found elsewhere. I just care about niche stuff.
I'm selling mine, apparently it's 50.000? Right?
Iβve deleted all my content (by handβthere wasnβt much), and I plan to delete my account on June 30 before Apollo stops working.
be aware, you need to use a tool to wipe your content before deleting the account, otherwise all the posts will be up again
Any suggestions on tools to use?
I've been told that Redact is good, but haven't used it myself yet
Thanks, I'll take a look around. Redact looks good but I'd rather something FOSS if I can find it. If I find anything I'll post here.
Yea agreed, please let me know if you find something! Thanks and good luck!
I ended up using shreddit, a Rust remake of an unmaintained Python script (https://github.com/x89/Shreddit). I had to keep running it over and over, but, I think that was the Reddit API's fault. If you end up using it, I recommend running it in a loop unless you want to keep running the same command over and over.
Anyway, it deleted all posts and comments, but messages in my inbox are still there. I'm fine with that for now but eventually want to clear that out I think.
If you're thinking of doing this I'd recommend running it before the API changes since the script uses it.
Thanks! Perfect; I plan to use it ASAP!
Glad to be of help! Let me know your experience with it.
I ended up still using Redact since I already had it set up, and it managed to overwrite and remove all my history without issue in one swoop :) Thanks anyways for the alternative, I'm sure it'll help someone else out!
I'm waiting to see what happens; they've announced the API screw-over of the 3rd party apps, but if the protests on the 12th+ blackout the site (you can't bill advertisers if there ain't no eyeballs) there might be some concession.
Look, Reddit hasn't been profitable - yet. The VCs who dumped in 1.3Bn bucks want it back, and I don't begrudge anyone for trying to make their own ham sandwich; we all gotta eat. My opinion is that the popular 3rd party app developers and API users should have been consulted and involved in the decision-making. And face it: apart from what we've paid to our favourite app developers we've received an awesome internet community for zero cost for over a decade (some of us anyway)!
How hard is it to go to the Apollo guy or the RiF folks and say: hey. we appreciate you making awesome apps. We need to start earning money. But you too need to make money. How can we work together, to maybe put a few more ads, or ad revenue generating "premium" features without screwing each other over, or our users?
So Ill wait to see what happens in the coming week and ride Reddit-is-Fun out to the bitter end and the lights go out and then probably delete my Reddit account then. But I've made the first steps. Im here ain't I?
Oh, and put in a request now to get an archive of all your Reddit content. I suspect that department will be quite busy in the coming weeks. https://www.reddit.com/settings/data-request
Im eager to see what form it comes in. If my posts and comments come with some context around them then Im fine with just deleting my account. I hope the links are permalinks so the backreferences to REddit stay intact (AND, you don't need the API to access, you could essentially "scrape" the context of your posts). I've been trying to find a way to search my own comments and posts for years (there are tools, but I want an OFFLINE archive of my stuff - I frequently find myself replying to someone and going hey wait Ive already answered this, now where did I put that comment...
iamthatis (Apollo) even said he could do it with a bit more time after the initial shock, some negotiation etc, he was willing to try if Reddit would throw him anything at all so it was possible. But Reddit instead shut down all communication then lied about what happened
I literally just deleted my account as of a few minutes ago. Read the thread from Christian about him shutting down the Apollo app, read the thread about how shit the Reddit team was treating him (and presumably, they probably treated other third-party devs similarly), and decided that since I was trying to quit Reddit anyways, might as well pull the plug now.
I've been eying out the Fediverse stuff for a while now, but that was the final push to go and join this place to trial it out and see how I like it.
I don't use an account for browsing, Infinity let me subscribe to subreddits without an account.
Couple of weeks ago I got permanently suspended from reddit. I've been a user for 11 years, they suspended my 11 year old account.
Why? Here's why.
It was in worldnews sub, you probably will remember the video where a cop kills a guy who's threatening others to commit suicide.
All I said was this:
"Sir you cannot kill yourself, that's our job"
BAM. Permanently banned for threatening and spreading violence. It's unbelievable. Mods think they're gods, so do admins. Fuck reddit ,I hope they collapse like WTT building.