Just deleted my reddit account, along with all my posts and comments.

vis4valentine@lemmy.ml to Reddit@lemmy.ml – 614 points –

Gotta be honest, watching the titles of the posts getting deleted made me a bit nostalgic, because it was an almost 5yo account.

However, now that's old news, and my account is totally gone.

I won't miss it really, I like Lemmy a lot more.

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God, I wish I knew about Redacto. I manually deleted my 11 year old account over the course of like 3 days.

What? How?

I wouldn't do it this way.

Doesn't fully delete. I was still able to find old comments. It gets rid of most. Also reddit is known to restore deleted posts and comments now. Week after I deleted everything was restored automatically.

Post racist conspiracy theories until your scrubbed from the site, it's your only hope.

Legal advice.

All I had to do was report a pedophile with direct proof to get me banned and it got them a temp 7 day ban -_-.

Reddit is disgusting

wtf - we're gonna need the full story there..

Some dude admitted to grooming a girl and having sex and a relationship with a 16 year old dude is 27 so I reported it on an alt account

Now keep in mind I am banned from reddit like IP banned so I got on a new account through a VPN and reported this person. This report came back and they temp backend them for 7 days and I woke up the next morning getting perma banned

Now obviously there's a reason why I was permanently banned for the 12th time but I keep doing this to piss them off and prove a point

I report accounts like these and harass the people and scare them off reddit

All I did was try to keep people safe and that's why I'm banned.

Some dude also admitted to jerking off into a girl's water bottle at the gym when she walked away then he admitted to watching her drink it

Like...... Wtf is wrong with people and why do they get away with this shit

Look at what I just posted in this sub. I got a lot worse stuff as well

The jizz in the water sounds like bullshit tbh... If anyone doesn't notice a load in their water bottle they are far too familiar with the taste of it lol.

Actual unethical but nuclear LPT:
Just post a video of something cruel or with shock value you found online^(or do it yourself...I won't judge). IMO not so different than racist stuff
create outrage
???
profit (and get banned)

Edit: I do not condone animal cruelty.
Edit2: In essence: Post something bad on Reddit to get the attention from Admins to get banned site wide. That should hide your comments from anywhere your username is related to.
Just don't post something to bad, so that it will be reported to the authorities.

Reddit is a fucking cesspool. Deleted that shit after they killed 3rd party apps. Wish I had fucked off outta there sooner.

People were saying see you in a week like this was only an API issue and not that the site became incredibly toxic and infested by bots and low quality content

Ill pop in maybe monthly to make sure my stuff stays deleted/edited and Ill check in on /r/all...its a shit show, who is entertaining this? Its karma farming or garbage across the board. Lemmy is super young but it feels like reddit a decade ago. Ill gladly deal with its shortcomings to not deal with whatever reddit turned into.

Deleted my 10 year account with hundreds of posts and thousands of comments. I have to admit, leaving reddit has created a sort of vacuum in my life, and I have been spending more time scrolling on facebook, news sites and other shitty services. I'm happy to finally have landed on lemmy, but it has been a bit bumpy with the instability on lemmy.world.

Lemmy is getting there but it's still not a great replacement, especially when it comes to niche topics. For example, the Venture Bros movie came out recently and I wanted to discuss it with other fans, but there's no place on lemmy for that; or if there is, I have been unable to find it. Meanwhile the Venture Bros subreddit has 3 different megathreads. I'm keeping my reddit account around for things like that until lemmy grows a bit more.

Sounds like something for the loads of movie subs you could crosspost to?

It is technically a movie, sure. But more accurately, it's the conclusion to a show that's been on the air for almost 20 years. It's not a movie made to stand on it's own. Posting it to a movie sub makes as much sense as posting about ancient Roman senators in a politics sub. It's technically politics, but you're not going to get very meaningful discussion because it's not what people go there for. The only people who would watch this movie are fans of the show, and even if a non-fan watched it, why would I give a shit about their opinion of it? They aren't going to get it.

Are you starting to see the issue?

Yep. Niche community problem right here.
But that's also a niche platform issue on top.

Yeah I filled that vacuum by learning how to solve a Rubiks cube, and now I'm trying to do it faster. Sync for Lemmy came out and felt just like Sync for Reddit and I was a bit worried I'd fall back into my old ways, which I kind of am tbh, I just have to make sure I'm not on Lemmy as much as Reddit somehow.

Ignore /c/all and be selective about the communities you subscribe to. In addition to other unfortunate browsing behaviours I also started lifting weights and climbing, so something good came out of it 😄

Mine was an 11 year old account with almost 400K karma.

The sad thing was thinking about all the time I spent in it, realizing that it's time that was literally spent.

I left mine because there's lots of good info out there that will help people some day, but I'm done posting anymore on there. All my new comments go here.

I actually would recommend deleting. Whatever commercialized AI reddit has cooking up is just going to be trained on your words and information, if it hasn't already happened.

They'll just use archived versions instead then. It's not like you have even a smidge of a chance to find out, so who cares about legal issues or or your right for privacy.

So get your account banned. Can't promise they won't still use it, but it's a lot less likely.

I propose that a new subreddit be created where you post something like "please ban me" and then people who visit will go and report you for sexual abusive and hate speech so you can get your account locked and banned site wide. Maybe there's already a thing like that?

I felt the same after removing my account of 7 years, it’s a smaller community here but at least we’re starting fresh

I feel ya. I'm never logged in to Reddit anymore and if a search result pointe to Reddit I always go in incognito.

I will eventually batch edit my posts to crap and delete my account but it's an old account with 10 years of experiences, Aha-moments and other feelings... So I'm not ready yet....

If you just posted nonsense and useless stuff like memes without a real value sure go ahead.

IMO it's like burning a library of useful knowledge regardless of it's content. The amount of advice in casual conversations is IMO more important than "giving the finger" to Reddit.

My request if you really do it: Please archive useful advice threads on archive.org so some can at least take advantage while not having to visit reddit itself.

You can never fully delete your reddit account.

Find some old threads that you commented on years ago; chances are that a good portion of them are still there. Your reddit history doesn't show everything, and AFAIK there are no tools available that can effectively eliminate every single post you've ever made, unless of course you simply didn't make many comments and posts to begin with.

This is only the case if it's less than 1000 posts or comments

Can't you just keep running it over an over?

Nope. Reddit orphans posts and comments from accounts. I don't know the hows or whys.

Last week I stumbled on a 15 year account who tried to do a full wipe before abandoning reddit. Their last and only comment in their profile is their farewell message. Except when you Google search their username it shows their content is still there. Just not associated to their profile page anymore.

Request a GDPR export and you will get your entire comment history. There are tools that can read that history and delete all the comments. I did encounter errors deleting a small number of comments which may have been due to the subs being privated. I deleted the problem ones from the json and the rest got deleted. I manually checked a sample of the 12 years of comments to confirm the accessible ones were being deleted.

Delete your account, look again in 3 months to see if account is gone.
If not request deletion via email amd if not followed by a satisfactory action, file a gdpr complaint. That will fuck them over a bit.

The Reddit community is a confusing one. deleted posts, a red hammer down the community is gone. I've deleted a couple of accounts. It's really a community that takes time to run...

I like Lemmy a lot more than reddit but not having the sports communities over here really kills the usefulness for me. My main use on reddit is talking baseball/football/hockey/soccer/basketball and the sports world just isn't over here.

Be the change. Create the community on an instance.

There's communities but just no one active. There's game threads but am I just supposed to sit there posting to myself all game?

Spread the word on Reddit or anywhere else.
It's not like Reddit was the number one place when being created.

Once lemmy may reach a critical enough mass it will attract the less technical and those are usually your sport sfans.

Make your own sports community

The communities are started, just no activity.

So pick the community that seems the most active and make activity for the stuff you want to see.

If people are looking for that, they'll gravitate toward the community that's got some activity in it.

Then you have to wait. And advertise your community on social media or something.. you started a community it's not going to open right away. It takes time for people to find it

It is crazy how quickly I saw that reddit is an actual defilement to the social process.

I kept getting booted out of using RES and old.r and how it wants to control the comments and everything ... I don't know. I'm happy that these federated systems are here. And I have looked at my next months budget to split donation to the cause.

Please have pledge drives right after upgrades or right after we have a big outage. Seems like that would be a great time to push for us to compensate the drivers of this public space.

Now get banned so your "deleted" account history is marked too toxic to exploit.

I wonder if these tools have a way to batch download all the images from my saved posts.

Did anyone else try to click the white x in the upper right corner to close the image? I can’t be the only one.

I got banned site wide so I can't delete my subreddits or anything I posted. That should be illegal.

Too bad recommendations, advice and anything good there is you posted went with it.
I hope you enjoy being DenverCoder9...

Also: Cool.