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

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[–] ZKtheMAN@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

I'm out. Nixed mine. Honestly I was never a huge power user so it's not too big a loss.

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

I'm not deleting, just abandoning. I had another person step up to mod the only community I was modding.

[–] dylan@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 years ago

I was always a lurker on Reddit so I don’t have to worry about purging post or comment history. I literally just haven’t gotten around to deleting it yet. I’ll miss the more local niche communities, but they’ll show up here and in other places in time.

[–] williamallenbro@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

I think I'm still holding out hope that they will come to their senses, but I'll probably delete eventually.

[–] lea@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

I don't really want to delete content potential googlers could stumble upon and be helped by, but I've replaced the Relay shortcut on my homescreen with a Jerboa shortcut. That's as good as deleted cause that's all I access reddit through.

[–] Manticore@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

I plan to, but I also plan to do it fully - going through saved links and bookmarking or documenting relevant recipes/guides/etc, removing all the comment history, etc etc.

I'm not really good at doing that in a timely manner. I have so many big projects, and smaller projects, that have been postponed for so long. It's just another thing on the list.

[–] KeefChief12@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Doubt Ill ever delete it, just abandon it.

[–] imekon@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I'm debating it, but deleting content seems pretty much a lot of work.

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[–] deuxenun@partizle.com 2 points 2 years ago

Just deleted my 3yo account with lots of juicy karma in it, also 2 alts

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

I've already deleted my reddit account a few days ago, never gonna use reddit for the foreseeable future.

[–] Kissaki@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

I value my content and the communities too much (despite its problems). I won't be deleting my account, and definitely not the content I posted.

I don't know yet what will happen to my usage and contribution level. Maybe it will only be on desktop PC from now on. We will see.

I am going to wait until the blackout in two days I think. If reddit doesn't back down on their decision I am going to delete the app.

[–] mrmaine@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

Not yet. I will do so by the end of June.

[–] __jov@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

I won't delete my account, atleast not in the foreseeable future. Won't install the official app though and stop using reddit on mobile entirely. There's just so much resources and old content available on reddit, and a lot that I've saved, that's next to impossible to migrate anywhere. I'll keep my account for that, and just that so I can access it when I need to.

[–] Raphael@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 years ago

I've been banned from reddit like a bazillion times.

I have no such weakness.

[–] luispotro@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

I'm kind of emotionally attached to my main and alt account to do that, yet.

[–] ebranty@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

I did,it was hard cause it had 10 years of memories on it but these new changes and the way leadership is acting I know if I where to not delete them I would come crawling back at some point rather just quit cold turkey

[–] LiarBesidalAll@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I used the power delete suite to get a backup of all my shit, change all comments to "bye reddit" and then delete them. I'm done with reddit unless spez is gone and they back track waaaay the fuck back

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

Change your comments that you move to lemmy. Moar salt that way

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

My account is one I made for work related purposed and has ~140 karma with very little identifiable information about me. I won't delete it, but I'm no longer using Reddit as a time-waster. I'm diversifying and have signed up here, kbin, Mastodon and PixelFed.

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

Yup. Deleted my 10 year old account yesterday.

[–] Etelekeli@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Deleted yesterday right after the post from Christian detailing the scummy way in which Reddit was treating him.

[–] deadcade@lemmy.deadca.de 1 points 2 years ago

Deleted account history like many others (after a GPDR and manual export of everything). Going to delete my account just before the 30th, as I won't be able to use it anyway. For now I'm still somewhat lurking on Reddit, so to keep my list of subscribed subreddits, I have not deleted my account yet.

[–] hawdini@feddit.uk 1 points 2 years ago

Not sure yet, a lot of subs haven't set up on Lemmy yet. Hoping that'll change after the blackout next week.

[–] IEatChickens 1 points 2 years ago

I am also hesitant to remove everthing. Maybe someone for example has the same question I once had. If Reddit holds on to their decisions I will probably delete the app though.

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

After the AMA yesterday, I made the decision to delete all of my posts and comments. I'm not sure I see a reason todeletee my account altogether as I think not giving traffic to Reddit is more important, so I left everything else the way it is. Maybe one of these days I'll go back through and delete everything for good.

All that said, like most other people here, I have no intention of going back, especially after yesterday, unless there's some sort of drastic change which is very unlikely.

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