Gotta be honest, watching the titles of the posts getting deleted made me a bit nostalgic, because it was an almost 5yo account.
However, now that’s old news, and my account is totally gone.
I won’t miss it really, I like Lemmy a lot more.
I left mine because there’s lots of good info out there that will help people some day, but I’m done posting anymore on there. All my new comments go here.
I actually would recommend deleting. Whatever commercialized AI reddit has cooking up is just going to be trained on your words and information, if it hasn’t already happened.
They’ll just use archived versions instead then. It’s not like you have even a smidge of a chance to find out, so who cares about legal issues or or your right for privacy.
So get your account banned. Can’t promise they won’t still use it, but it’s a lot less likely.
Controversial maybe but I’m leaving my 12 years of content up in case there is an answer someone needs
I just won’t use it anymore
Same. I’m not gonna make the internet worse to use because I’ve now left the product. As a user, it’s frustrating when I need help with some niche issue and find the perfect result on google, only for it to be deleted or otherwise useless. Deleting such history isn’t gonna make people want to use Lemmy or the likes. Such historical information doesn’t and will not exist on Lemmy. Deleting it doesn’t push people to an alternative. It just means it’s gone.
I’m not gonna cut off the collective internet’s nose to spite Reddit’s face.
That’s super nice of you but in the end it just adds value to a company that doesn’t give a shit about its creators.
The search volume and ads do not justify the help for the greater good IMO.
It fucks Reddit more over to use an adblocker and DDOS their servers to reduce the traffic.Please do not ddos them
Consider removing it so users won’t find it… Because the less value they get from reddit, the more likely it is they will come here instead.
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There needs to be a script, that moves each of your reddit comment over to Lemmy and edits the reddit comment with a link to the lemmy post
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I have already seen bots that are moving complete reddit subs to their respective communities. It’s really annoying, because there’s no actual engagement whatsoever
It’s a compromise; the discussions aren’t lost, Reddit doesn’t get to have the data anymore, but like you said, there’s no engagement. The engagement needs to occur over here with new topics, possibly linking back to the copied old ones.
I agree, reddit gets most of their traffic from the engagement surrounding the latest shitposts and low-effort memes. (Or just genuine community content if you prefer)
Months old posts are hardly relevant to large scale user engagement and it’s unlikely that the one user trying to solve a problem by visiting a years old thread is going to have much of an impact.
If people are going to move away from the site in a healthy manner, they need to realise for themselves that it’s time to move on. Better to have a bunch of hopeful and curious people looking for new opportunities rather than bitter and resentful users which are going to vent their frustration elsewhere.
Yeah and then they get unhappy with reddit and find Lemmy. :)
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It won’t if people remain on reddit. :)
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I tried a few times already searching for somewith with lemmy like
[] lemmy
or
[technical issue] [instance]Guess how many results came up from that…The SEO right now is shit for those instances and discoverability. Searching for reddit will currently will not even mention something to lemmy or similiar.
Which query did you run?
I did “Lemmy neovim” and finding good results on Kagi:
https://kagi.com/search?q=Lemmy+neovim+&r=se&sh=0osxUy85wg5qQMQB0n_Zvg
They won’t come here… They’ll go wherever they can to solve the problem, which won’t be here because Lemmy doesn’t really show up in search results yet
Depends on the search engine I think? I was getting lots of nice results on “Lemmy neovim” on Kagi.
But yeah, fully aware that almost all people use Google and that the current results may not be as good as reddit.
In my experience with google at least, you have to specifically add “lemmy” to get any results to show up (and a lot of them aren’t related to the search term, just general lemmy pages), which doesn’t solve the problem until enough people know to add it.
I’m all for lemmy overtaking reddit but let’s not waste people’s time by deleting useful information 🙃. Deleting comments with solutions to problems will just come off as obnoxious and make people want to avoid lemmy.
Haha… As if my content on Reddit has any value to anyone.
You’d be surprised sometimes.
I was active in sysadmin subs. My people need those comments
Yeah I was in the Home Assistant sub. The number of times I Googled something I was struggling with, only to find a Reddit thread with MY comment telling people how to solve the exact issue I’m struggling with lol, I’ll leave it up.
Doesn’t fully delete. I was still able to find old comments. It gets rid of most. Also reddit is known to restore deleted posts and comments now. Week after I deleted everything was restored automatically.
Post racist conspiracy theories until your scrubbed from the site, it’s your only hope.
Legal advice.
All I had to do was report a pedophile with direct proof to get me banned and it got them a temp 7 day ban -_-.
Reddit is disgusting
wtf - we’re gonna need the full story there…
Some dude admitted to grooming a girl and having sex and a relationship with a 16 year old dude is 27 so I reported it on an alt account
Now keep in mind I am banned from reddit like IP banned so I got on a new account through a VPN and reported this person. This report came back and they temp backend them for 7 days and I woke up the next morning getting perma banned
Now obviously there’s a reason why I was permanently banned for the 12th time but I keep doing this to piss them off and prove a point
I report accounts like these and harass the people and scare them off reddit
All I did was try to keep people safe and that’s why I’m banned.
Some dude also admitted to jerking off into a girl’s water bottle at the gym when she walked away then he admitted to watching her drink it
Like… Wtf is wrong with people and why do they get away with this shit
Look at what I just posted in this sub. I got a lot worse stuff as well
Using the the N word for good /jk
Ni!
agara Falls.
Actual unethical but nuclear LPT:
Just post a video of something cruel or with shock value you found online^(or do it yourself…I won’t judge). IMO not so different than racist stuff
create outrage
???
profit (and get banned)Edit: I do not condone animal cruelty.
Edit2: In essence: Post something bad on Reddit to get the attention from Admins to get banned site wide. That should hide your comments from anywhere your username is related to.
Just don’t post something to bad, so that it will be reported to the authorities.
It is crazy how quickly I saw that reddit is an actual defilement to the social process.
I kept getting booted out of using RES and old.r and how it wants to control the comments and everything … I don’t know. I’m happy that these federated systems are here. And I have looked at my next months budget to split donation to the cause.
Please have pledge drives right after upgrades or right after we have a big outage. Seems like that would be a great time to push for us to compensate the drivers of this public space.
I’d personally recommend mass editing comments to “moved to lemmy/kbin” or something, rather than deleting, as that way some others might switch as well. Redact supports doing this.
I would experience negative emotions about Lemmy/k in if I found a reddit thread describing my problem and the lauded solution was changed to say the user moved there. It would not make me want to switch.
Now get banned so your “deleted” account history is marked too toxic to exploit.
I wonder if these tools have a way to batch download all the images from my saved posts.
Deleted my 10 year account with hundreds of posts and thousands of comments. I have to admit, leaving reddit has created a sort of vacuum in my life, and I have been spending more time scrolling on facebook, news sites and other shitty services. I’m happy to finally have landed on lemmy, but it has been a bit bumpy with the instability on lemmy.world.
Lemmy is getting there but it’s still not a great replacement, especially when it comes to niche topics. For example, the Venture Bros movie came out recently and I wanted to discuss it with other fans, but there’s no place on lemmy for that; or if there is, I have been unable to find it. Meanwhile the Venture Bros subreddit has 3 different megathreads. I’m keeping my reddit account around for things like that until lemmy grows a bit more.
A boycott is rarely comfortable.
Sounds like something for the loads of movie subs you could crosspost to?
It is technically a movie, sure. But more accurately, it’s the conclusion to a show that’s been on the air for almost 20 years. It’s not a movie made to stand on it’s own. Posting it to a movie sub makes as much sense as posting about ancient Roman senators in a politics sub. It’s technically politics, but you’re not going to get very meaningful discussion because it’s not what people go there for. The only people who would watch this movie are fans of the show, and even if a non-fan watched it, why would I give a shit about their opinion of it? They aren’t going to get it.
Are you starting to see the issue?
Yep. Niche community problem right here.
But that’s also a niche platform issue on top.
Yeah I filled that vacuum by learning how to solve a Rubiks cube, and now I’m trying to do it faster. Sync for Lemmy came out and felt just like Sync for Reddit and I was a bit worried I’d fall back into my old ways, which I kind of am tbh, I just have to make sure I’m not on Lemmy as much as Reddit somehow.
Ignore /c/all and be selective about the communities you subscribe to. In addition to other unfortunate browsing behaviours I also started lifting weights and climbing, so something good came out of it 😄
I feel ya. I’m never logged in to Reddit anymore and if a search result pointe to Reddit I always go in incognito.
I will eventually batch edit my posts to crap and delete my account but it’s an old account with 10 years of experiences, Aha-moments and other feelings… So I’m not ready yet…
If you just posted nonsense and useless stuff like memes without a real value sure go ahead.
IMO it’s like burning a library of useful knowledge regardless of it’s content. The amount of advice in casual conversations is IMO more important than “giving the finger” to Reddit.
My request if you really do it: Please archive useful advice threads on archive.org so some can at least take advantage while not having to visit reddit itself.
Mine was an 11 year old account with almost 400K karma.
The sad thing was thinking about all the time I spent in it, realizing that it’s time that was literally spent.
You can never fully delete your reddit account.
Find some old threads that you commented on years ago; chances are that a good portion of them are still there. Your reddit history doesn’t show everything, and AFAIK there are no tools available that can effectively eliminate every single post you’ve ever made, unless of course you simply didn’t make many comments and posts to begin with.
Request a GDPR export and you will get your entire comment history. There are tools that can read that history and delete all the comments. I did encounter errors deleting a small number of comments which may have been due to the subs being privated. I deleted the problem ones from the json and the rest got deleted. I manually checked a sample of the 12 years of comments to confirm the accessible ones were being deleted.
Delete your account, look again in 3 months to see if account is gone.
If not request deletion via email amd if not followed by a satisfactory action, file a gdpr complaint. That will fuck them over a bit.
Is there a tool for me to download my data first?
redact, which was shown in the pic makes an archive of deleted content inside the app.
