cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1277945

When the whole Reddit fiasco started happening, I saw a lot of people wiping and deleting their Reddit accounts and moving elsewhere, like here on Lemmy.

Now that it’s starting to die down a little bit, does anyone regret doing that? Or are you glad that you took that step?

  • Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    I regret that reddit got the point where I felt like it was my only option. That hasn’t changed since deleting my account

  • Gatsby@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    The reddit I miss is not the reddit I left, nor the reddit that exists today.

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    1 year ago

    I am sure there’s a significant survivorship bias to the responses you will be getting on this platform, but I really am glad to be off of Reddit.

    It has allowed me to find other discussion platforms online (Lemmy) that feel more genuine somehow, at least for now (I don’t question if I’m talking to a human or a bot/shill).

    I’ve also spent more time just learning and doing stuff that I am sure would have been simply wasted in the endless scrolling in Apollo.

  • Go-On-A-Steam-Train@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    I downloaded my comments/posts, then nuked with powerdeletesuite. :) Kept my account open, purely so that I have control over it, and Reddit couldn’t un-delete without me having access to it.

    So far, I miss knowing wrestling news as it was my main source of that, but… Meh no don’t miss it much at all :)

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      1 year ago

      I tried to nuke it too… turns out reddit has been ignoring delete and edit requests. I think they are rate capping the requests.

      After running powerdeletesuite multiple times with all kinds of settings, I could still find comments of mine not deleted.

      I also requested a GDPR set of account information. ALL of my deleted/edited comments are still there.

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        1 year ago

        Oh damn! I there were about 50 stubborn ones that powerdelete couldn’t scrub, so I did those manually, but… I think I’ll do the same, a fresh gdpr dataset after a few weeks would be interesting…

        :) Thanks for the heads up, they’ve become such a weird company, or maybe always were?

  • Bob@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Absolutely not, and it was a 13 year old account too. My only regret is not doing it sooner tbh.

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    1 year ago

    Yes. There’s one niche sub I followed that I tried to recreate here but nobody uses it. It’s for a hobby of mine and I have a lot of questions about it.

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      1 year ago

      same, I don’t regret my exodus but I had to make the decision to force myself to find and/or bootstrap elsewhere what I was getting from reddit

  • caffinz@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    It was tough at first, but I haven’t logged in or looked since deleting all of my comments. The only time I go there now is when I absentmindedly click a Google result.

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    1 year ago

    Not at all, 11 years, and Lemmy now reminds me of the good ole days. It was time to move on