I did it. I deleted all my Reddit accounts. - RedditMigration to the "Threadiverse" - kbin.social
kbin.socialThis was a really hard decision for me but I purged all my posts, votes and comments via Shreddit. I then deleted all my accounts. I’ve been on Reddit since it was just a baby website. I love Reddit, the friends and the communities I was involved in changed my life for the better.
We’ll see how it goes but the only way we are going to win this fight is to walk away from Reddit. We have to send a message to them and the only way to do that is to hit them where it really hurts, right in the wallet.
Change is a good thing and I am ready to embrace it. I’m all in on kbin now. Let’s see where we go from here 🍻
Tracking the lastest news and numbers about the #RedditMigration to open, Fediverse-based alternatives, including #Kbin and #Lemmy To see latest reeddit blackout info, see here: https://reddark.untone.uk/
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Social media comes, and social media goes. Reddit.has peaked and will join the others in the dustbin of failed public offerings.
As it began, so shall it end: a snoo in a strange land.
Deleted my 1yo alt and my 12yo reddit account. Don’t really use third party apps, but I their whole attitude was awful and it’s not like thing are going to get better there.
Same. Well done!!
This doesn’t just send a message to Reddit. In fact, Reddit is failing to heed the lessons of history to their own current detriment and ultimate demise.
Community is everything in this landscape. Treat your user base like shit at your own peril.
I did it after the “noise” memo leaked. 12+ years of Reddit gone. I left Digg in the Exodus and I’m not taking Reddit’s shit either.
Can you provide a link to the “noise” memo that was leaked? I must’ve missed it because I haven’t heard of this. If it convinced you and was the final straw to delete your account, I’d be interested in seeing it as well
I’m more set on overriding all my comments, but I’m still on the fence about deleting the whole account. At least, once I know with 100% certainty that they won’t be reverted back to their original states (if possible)
The full text is quoted in this article, about halfway down: https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/13/23759559/reddit-internal-memo-api-pricing-changes-steve-huffman
I haven’t deleted my accounts yet, but I blocked reddit in my router firewall. This past week I found myself repeatedly going there without thinking, like a genuine addiction.
https://i.imgur.com/5S1NzP1.jpg
I didn’t realize until the blackout how bad Google search results are without Reddit. Everything from finding video game hints to recommendations on the best bicycle seats… All the best, trustworthy content was from users on Reddit.
I’ve compromised by using Google cached search results to avoid giving Reddit views.
Now the arduous but necessary task of making the Fediverse the place for those results instead.
I’ve started seeing threads on reddit now stating that deleted/edited comments are getting reverted to their original forms. This includes ones done from Shreddit and PowerDeleteSuite etc.
It happened to me three times after using PDS. I ended up using a Tampermonkey script called Spaz’s Reddit Delete, which also scrambles all comments and then deletes them, with an appropriate window of time between each action to avoid triggering any anti-spam response. This seems to have done the trick, and my comments or submissions haven’t reappeared.
Honestly it kinda just looks like server issues to me with the delete request getting dropped before completion or something, but still showing correctly client-side until re-loaded.
That said, I’ve edited all my comments to gibberish and left them up in that state. I’ll check and see if any are back in a week or two.
EDIT: I take it back, it’s not server issues.
EDIT2: It seems like comments in private subs didn’t properly save the edits.