Honestly, even if Lemmy doesn’t grow to be even 1% of the size of Reddit, I think I could seriously enjoy the smaller-community vibe way more. Reddit was starting to get ridiculously flooded with trash content and bots.

[–] carbonprop@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Deleted mine yesterday after 12 1/2 years. Felt pretty good actually.

[–] tomdenhagen2@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago

I don’t know, it felt kind of mixed to me. I definitely had some feeling of mourning as I was deleting 11 1/2 years of my personal content. The same feeling you might have throwing out childhood toys, or more accurately like old diaries. Nevertheless, I felt strongly that it was the right thing to do to delete all my comments. They’re backup up but it’s all in JSON so I don’t think I’ll revisit it again.

[–] aMalayali@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Backed up and deleted all your posts and comments? Is there some sort-of simple way to do that, for people who're not programmers?

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Use https://codepen.io/j0be/full/WMBWOW/

you can backup your stuff, modify your stuff before deleting and regular delete as well.

[–] halfpipe@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 years ago

I think there is a way to do it, but redditors have been encountering problems accessing the feature necessary for this kind of deletion.

[–] Suspicious_Bee@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 years ago

PowerDeleteSuite creates a csv file with your deleted posts and comments, and using it is pretty simple

[–] Kerrangutan@lemmy.one 1 points 2 years ago

Finished deleting my posts and comments yesterday, once I've gone through my saved stuff and backed up anything I want to keep, my account is gone. I might even do a GDPR request etc just to be totally sure.

[–] WreckingBANG@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

I deleted mine after 3 years. First i was skeptical if i was doing the right thing, but now i am happy i did it.