This was a really hard decision for me but I purged all my posts, votes and comments via Shreddit. I then deleted all my accounts. I’ve been on Reddit since it was just a baby website. I love Reddit, the friends and the communities I was involved in changed my life for the better.
We’ll see how it goes but the only way we are going to win this fight is to walk away from Reddit. We have to send a message to them and the only way to do that is to hit them where it really hurts, right in the wallet.
Change is a good thing and I am ready to embrace it. I’m all in on kbin now. Let’s see where we go from here 🍻
Please check that your comments and accounts stay deleted! Apparently Reddit is restoring deleted comments.
This has to be bumped up higher, I think people are still deleting their accounts before making sure their comments are either staying deleted or rewritten!!!
Social media comes, and social media goes. Reddit.has peaked and will join the others in the dustbin of failed public offerings.
As it began, so shall it end: a snoo in a strange land.
Deleted my 1yo alt and my 12yo reddit account. Don’t really use third party apps, but I their whole attitude was awful and it’s not like thing are going to get better there.
I did it after the “noise” memo leaked. 12+ years of Reddit gone. I left Digg in the Exodus and I’m not taking Reddit’s shit either.
Yup me too. Just deleted with a nice “fuck you spez” parting message
I deleted all, all, I’d rather not be part of the next scrapping. In any case I can build my own AI with my own comments for my own personal gain if I want, at least I consented to that.
Can you provide a link to the “noise” memo that was leaked? I must’ve missed it because I haven’t heard of this. If it convinced you and was the final straw to delete your account, I’d be interested in seeing it as well
I’m more set on overriding all my comments, but I’m still on the fence about deleting the whole account. At least, once I know with 100% certainty that they won’t be reverted back to their original states (if possible)
The full text is quoted in this article, about halfway down: https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/13/23759559/reddit-internal-memo-api-pricing-changes-steve-huffman
My account is being shredded as we speak. 1500 comments and counting.
This doesn’t just send a message to Reddit. In fact, Reddit is failing to heed the lessons of history to their own current detriment and ultimate demise.
Community is everything in this landscape. Treat your user base like shit at your own peril.
Same. Just did it today. I’ve also been on reddit since the beginning and I’m done.
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I don’t even want to win any fight anymore. I don’t want to use Reddit regardless of what they do with the API anymore. The API changes and the way that they have reacted to the backlash is just the straw that broke the camel’s back. And even if they revert all of the changes it’s too late to take back the way they’ve acted.
Y u p. I’d been thinking about getting out for a while; management of the site has sucked for some time, and it was pretty clear things weren’t going to get better. They have, instead, gotten significantly worse. This was a nice kick, with a lot of push towards getting a critical mass of users onto a new platform. Even if most of the reddfugees don’t stick, some will, and kbin / the fediverse can keep rolling forward. I deleted a 2 year account, and a 13 year account. Cya!
Moving to the new, better online community and leaving Reddit to become what it becomes now is winning, in my opinion.
I use to like it, but really, reddit has been crap for a long long time.
Same boat here but, I am really enjoying this fresh new community on kbin. Each day there are more and more new posts which looks promising.
I’ve deleted all my comments from the last 10 years a few days ago. Riding it out until the 30th, and then I’m out. kbin looks like the perfect replacement/alternative that I’ve seen so far.
Imagine being Aaron Schwartz, alive, today…
I am keeping my reddit account but will be restricting use to r/HFY and r/askhistorians where I will mainly read and not comment. No activity beyond reading while this crap is happening.
Same. Well done!!
I haven’t deleted my accounts yet, but I blocked reddit in my router firewall. This past week I found myself repeatedly going there without thinking, like a genuine addiction.
I didn’t realize until the blackout how bad Google search results are without Reddit. Everything from finding video game hints to recommendations on the best bicycle seats… All the best, trustworthy content was from users on Reddit.
I’ve compromised by using Google cached search results to avoid giving Reddit views.
Now the arduous but necessary task of making the Fediverse the place for those results instead.
I also did this. 5yrs and 1k karma.
I’m not that optimistic about lemmy’s future (especially after lemmy.world defederation on beehaw), but I’m glad to be here.
If it won’t work, I’ll just stop wasting my time on reading things I don’t need. If it will, that’ll be cool.
In a general sense I’m in favor of the community using the tools that are fully integrated to curate their experiences. If you desperately need lemmy.world and beehaw you can sign up someplace else, that doesn’t block either. They don’t have to deal with each other, and your experience continues on.
I’ve started seeing threads on reddit now stating that deleted/edited comments are getting reverted to their original forms. This includes ones done from Shreddit and PowerDeleteSuite etc.
Honestly it kinda just looks like server issues to me with the delete request getting dropped before completion or something, but still showing correctly client-side until re-loaded.
That said, I’ve edited all my comments to gibberish and left them up in that state. I’ll check and see if any are back in a week or two.
EDIT: I take it back, it’s not server issues.
EDIT2: It seems like comments in private subs didn’t properly save the edits.I deleted a bunch of my posts and comments manually earlier this week (did not use any tools, just clicked edit > delete) and now all of those posts and comments are back. The posts showed as gone for several days between. This isn’t a server error.
It happened to me three times after using PDS. I ended up using a Tampermonkey script called Spaz’s Reddit Delete, which also scrambles all comments and then deletes them, with an appropriate window of time between each action to avoid triggering any anti-spam response. This seems to have done the trick, and my comments or submissions haven’t reappeared.
