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I nuked my Reddit accounts today. Deleted all comments and posts, then the accounts themselves. The tool I used showed each comment as it was deleted, and it was bittersweet.

I watched old gaming and movie discussions I barely remember appear and then get flagged as deleted. Communities I once participated in and then moved on as the years past flashed by. I remembered how I felt back then, and then watched them scroll on into oblivion.

Now I feel...I guess it's grief. Sadness for that part that's gone. Sadness that it'll never be there again. Like footprints on a beach wiped away by the tide. It's like it never happened. There is no trace.

And I feel anger. Mad that it came to this. Mad that I let a corporation have so much of my time and thoughts. Mad that they made it clear my life was nothing but a product to them.

It's over now. Time for a new chapter.

Anyone else have strong feelings about losing a part of the past like this?

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[–] t0fr@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] ShellSurf@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Ya, you know I haven't opened reddit since the blackout started. I removed "slide" from my phones home screen.

It's kinda sad, but I'm rediscovering RSS, now I've found kbin, and Im fine. I think not mindlessly scrolling reddit after my main interests have been covered has been nice for my brain.

[–] lysy@szmer.info 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] CrimsonOnoscopy@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] EnderWi99in@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] smajl@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I don’t delete my data (posts) because once you google a problem and you realize that a solution that you are looking at is written by you few years back you know you do a good job and you could be saving your future self an headache.

[–] Fuyuhikodate@diggit.xyz 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What was the Name of the Tool?

[–] m_talon@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago
[–] angrylittlekitty@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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?

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[–] Chronosensitivity@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] nii236@lemmy.jtmn.dev 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] iAmTheTot@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Maximilious@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Same here for reddit. I won't remove my account just yet, but have unsubbed from a lot of fluff subs I was a part of.

Once RiF goes away I'll use desktop when needed for searches, but I never actually sit on it at a desktop. I'm hopeful all subs I use will come over, but some may not. Namely homelab and homelabsales.

[–] ElcaineVolta@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

can anyone recommend an easy tool to do this? I don't want to leave anything behind they can scrape and profit from.

[–] Fmstrat@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

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.

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