Reddit Migration

Nah but I haven't logged in yet. I will probably delete it at some point but leave the comments up. I'm fine with leaving whatever value I have contributed on Reddit. It's their website and they own the content I willfully added. But I won't contribute more.

My account dies with Apollo

I did it this morning, I had already scrubbed everything and was just fucking around having some last couple conversations when someone tried to argue with me and tell me "haha whatever dude, you'll be back after the 1st", so that's when I decided "fuck it, the time is now I guess".

Even in your last moments on the site, redditors can find a way to be dicks.

@kraiden I'm still enjoying reading the drama, but yeah after Boost stops working I'm out

I've removed all of my many years of comments (edited them first, so if they restore my comments they get strings of randomly-generated words to screw up the data feed going to the LLM text-scrapers), but I will not be deleting my account. I want to keep it operational so that I can see if they try to restore my stuff, then remove it again if they do.

I've kept my last two weeks of comments, so that the Rexxit discussion is still alive. I'll purge everything else that's not Rexxit-related on the 30th.

Yep. 12yr account. Not much karma but it was a decent part of my daily routine for that period of time.

Yep. 12yr account. Not much karma but it was a decent part of my daily routine for that period of time.

No, I won't, mostly because I post regular PSAs about important stuff there, and I don't like losing control of my account.

But I keep posting links to the Fediverse and eventually will do a poll to see if they'd be OK with the PSAs moved to the Fediverse (hopefully yes.) 😎

No, I'm going to wait until about Aug to fully delete since some of my posts/comments keep coming back. I want to make sure I overwrite them before deleting

Deleted all my posts and then deleted my account. I still do some light browsing with my remaining days of Apollo, though. But I’m ready to make kbin my new home. I hope we will have a proper app soon.

I did a GDPR request on my data. As soon as they reply I intend to delete all. No soft delete, really delete. I want to make sure the stuff is out of their servers.

I did the day of the blackout when it was clear they had no intention of reversing/modifying their position. Sad to see a 12 year old account go but if for whatever reason they get their head out of their ass I'll probably just create a new account.

I would have done it on the day of the blackout but I wanted to get my oldest comments wiped out too.

Then a sub went dark and is still dark with some comments I missed.

So I'm waiting.

Considering deleting anyways even if they aren't undark by the 30th.

Went undark today for a day (maybe just a day depending on vote). So I wiped those and then deleted the account for good!

I was really in two minds about deleting my comment history. I decided not to. Some of it is the kind of stuff that might just help me in a few years when I've forgotten my previous solutions and Google them all over again.

Not yet but I intend to. I want to grab all my subreddits so I can use the list to find them again on kbin.

I'm not going to. I feel an attachment to my old 3 character user name. If I give it up someone else might register it.

Nope and I don't see the point of deleting or defacing comments and posts, really. I'm not really interested in destroying reddit, I'm just... not using it anymore (or not as much).

Things like relationship and parenting advice communities and other sorts of support subreddits don't seem to be moving anywhere yet and I do enjoy them so dunno. Currently RedReader seems fine for those and won't be affected by the API change because it was granted an exception. The RedReader dev seems to be on my wavelength. So far the Fediverse seems perfectly fine for technical topics. With the exception that on Reddit, you will often find support people for small devices that work for companies inside of their communities. I'm keeping my eye out for the other content.

Another issue is that for better or worse it is somewhat easier to trust reddit. Reddit admins limit what moderators can know or see about users. I don't fully understand the privacy implications of the federverse and the fact that you don't know who the admins are and what they might be doing. So in some ways I trust Reddit a bit more at this point.

I know the damage that a power tripping reddit mod can do and how to protect myself from moderators harassment there. But I suspect that Fediverse is essentially "moderators who also know your IP address". So some topics do seem safer to discuss on Reddit than here.