Im working up the courage to. Ill never go back, but it is also hard to delete that much history just for a statement

  • Dojan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    2 years ago

    I don’t think I’m going to delete my account, but I don’t really see myself being active anymore. Back when I had an Android phone I used Relay, and when I switched to iOS I used Apollo. They were just better clients and offered a smooth experience that Reddit themselves failed to provide.

    More than that though, the utter slander towards Christian Selig just puts me off entirely. He’s been nothing but lovely, listened to his community, and developed a fantastic app, even taking accessibility into account. Reddit on the other hand doesn’t want to bother implementing accessibility features so they’ll happily let certain accessibility focused apps continue using the API.

    It’s just so transparently terrible.

    On the other hand I’m glad it’s happening. I’d not even heard of the “fediverse” before, but reading up on the ActivityPub protocol and the general idea of how these things work, this is something I really want to succeed. Take social networks out of the hands of corporations and put it into the hands of users.

    I’m not a massive fan of Lemmy’s front-end, but that’s fixable. The fact that the code is open source (and they use something as standard as Bootstrap) makes it super approachable. Maybe I could even help out.

    I’ll miss some of my niche subs, but I’d rather help get them started on a federated platform.

    • flamingarms@beehaw.orgEnglish
      4·
      2 years ago

      I’m with you. I’ve watched Reddit pull a LOT of bullshit over the years, and this is heinous enough that I’m done. I’ll keep my account because there are some very niche subs that can provide help with certain things, so I want to be able to search or post to them as needed. But Lemmy really has my attention now.

    • Silviecat44@vlemmy.netEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      I am trying to transition away from reddit but I won’t delete my account. Do you think that lemmy will eventually become more popular as a result of what reddit has done? It has a much more complicated signup process.

      • Dojan@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        I’m really no good when it comes to speculative things. Lemmy (and the fediverse) is intriguing to me, but I do feel like it needs to be made more user friendly if it is to take off and garner more mainstream appeal.

        Currently it really puts the federated-ness in the forefront, but I feel like it might be an idea to soften that a bit. The average user wouldn’t care so much about the details, but knowing that it’s not run by a single big corporation might be appealing. Streamlining the signup process would go a long way.

  • Klanky@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    18·
    2 years ago

    My plan is to unsub from subreddits as I find comparable communities here until eventually there is nothing left in my feed to keep me at Reddit.

  • redimk@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
    16·
    2 years ago

    I will delete mine when Sync shuts down, since I exclusively use Sync to browse Reddit. But I really wanted to delete it after I read that sad excuse of an AMA.

    • Hammy@lemmy.oneEnglish
      8·
      2 years ago

      Lots of Sync users in this thread, apparently. Hopefully the dev follows through with Sync for Lemmy.

      • redimk@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        I was thinking of designing my own app or contributing to the design of Lemmy, but I have no idea of who to talk to about that.

  • AnEilifintChorcra@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    12·
    2 years ago

    Currently cloning all of my saved posts with bdfr before sub’s go dark

    I’ve edited and deleted useless comments but I don’t think I will delete helpful stuff I’ve posted as I’ve often found useful information from deleted accounts.

    Then on June 30th I’ll delete my 3 reddit accounts in solidarity with the 3PAs that are shutting down.

    It seems like this year is really going to test the fediverse, first Twitter, now Reddit, and YouTube seems to be following by shutting down Vanced and attempting to shutdown Invidious and also Twitch seems to be messing with their content creators too

    They’re going to push a lot of people away and so far it seems like Mastodon and now Lemmy are attempting to fill the niche, I hope it works out because I love the concept

    • kommanditbolag@lemmy.mlEnglish
      4·
      2 years ago

      If there’s one thing I think will be fine it’s YouTube. Even if it goes through changes, it’s more or less the only platform that does what it does at that level.

    • mattyxarope@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Currently cloning all of my saved posts with bdfr before sub’s go dark

      Any guide on how to do this?

  • TragicNotCute@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    2 years ago

    Deleted the app off my phone and put Lemmy in its place to try and switch. Not going to delete my account or posts, just not going back.

  • Ulu-Mulu-no-die@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    2 years ago

    I won’t delete all my comments, there are many that are answers to questions and explanations/instructions for those having problems.

    I don’t feel like it’s right to remove them, since so many times I too found solutions in reddit old comments that I couldn’t find anywhere else.

    For now I’m just downloading my history, then I’ll check subs selectively, I may delete a few in non-significant subs but the rest in subs containing help for others will stay.

  • Teal@lemmy.mlEnglish
    9·
    2 years ago

    Completely stopped using reddit. Haven’t decided whether I’ll delete or sell the account yet

  • pyska@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    9·
    2 years ago

    I have. Found a tool on Github that edited and deleted every comment or post I did and then deleted the account. So, the nuclear option. My account may not have had much contributions, but it was an honest account of 5 years.

  • ArtVandelay@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    2 years ago

    I just kicked off Redact, deleting all 2038 messages I’ve posted on Reddit over 9 years. It’s bittersweet, but I’m done, and while i can’t control their database management, I won’t have some corpo fuckwit monetizing my content if i can help it.

  • marksson@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    8·
    2 years ago

    Not yet. Thinking how to transfer favourite posts from favourite subs (like r/retrofuturism) without being accused of stealing someone’s work.

    • havocpants@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      I like that sub too. It would not be difficult to write some code to read the RSS of the Subreddit and create lemmy posts from them. I could have sworn I found someone’s project that did something similar on Github yesterday, but I’m struggling to find it now. (the theft bit is another matter)

  • Grizzzlay@beehaw.orgEnglish
    8·
    2 years ago

    The day I joined Beehaw is the day I deleted my 13 year old Reddit account. I’m already feeling the effects of spending less time scrolling and reading through comments, and more time actually talking to people.

    It feels good :)

    • goat@burggit.moeEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      Just be aware that beehaw has super mods who can and will ban you for any reason. And that you won’t be seeing the full discourse of the fediverse, like this comment.

    • chrizbie@feddit.ukEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      Exactly the same here, I’m enjoying a new experience with Lemmy and mastodon and I hope it continues to gain popularity

  • sprocket@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    7·
    2 years ago

    Not yet, I’m holding out to see if anything changes (I’m not hopeful though).

    Come the 12th if nothing has changed I’m gonna sell my account. It’s worth about £100 apparently.