In the csv from Reddit it shows I had over 5100 comments. I ran PowerDeleteSuite and it completely erased all my comments. I kept my account and I go back on Reddit once in a while to check and only once I had to delete a stray comment that popped back up. Otherwise my comment and post history (12 y.o. acct) is gone.
I was thinking about exactly this last night. I feel like the apps we used (12 years on Reddit, with RIF for as long as I remember) were Reddit. The apps and the way we customized them created our own little Reddit universe. I’m sad for all the devs that worked on their applications and put so much work into them also. But I’ve been off Reddit for a couple of weeks and I absolutely do not miss it.
Of course, it all depends on the context. A tutorial for a specific knitting stitch can be done in under 5 minutes, other stuff not so much! There was also an interesting thread somewhere yesterday asking why don’t people use their subscription feed on YT and the answers were a good representation of the user base here, ie: most do use it and avoid the algo at all costs! So I think we’re all on the same page here, we search and use YT in a way that is most efficient but not the most common :)