be aware, you need to use a tool to wipe your content before deleting the account, otherwise all the posts will be up again
this post was submitted on 09 Jun 2023
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Any suggestions on tools to use?
I've been told that Redact is good, but haven't used it myself yet
Thanks, I'll take a look around. Redact looks good but I'd rather something FOSS if I can find it. If I find anything I'll post here.
Yea agreed, please let me know if you find something! Thanks and good luck!
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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 :)
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I had 7 years of saved posts in my old Reddit account, deleted it today. We'll see if Lemmy grows, but always open to trying new things!
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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.
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I will delete it when Sync for Reddit cannot be used anymore. But I will stop using reddit anyway
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The only reason I stuck with Reddit was because of Apollo. Iโve just requested my data, hopefully I can get to grips with Lemmy!
I requested my data the other day too. I haven't heard anything yet, which makes me wonder if they will actually do it, because I'm sure they got a ton of requests at this point. I'm hoping to get that before I pull the plug completely.
I want to transition off of Reddit but I'm not deleting my account because I feel like there's too much valuable information on the site to get rid of it all just yet.
If you don't delete your account, you should REALLY consider selling it. One: You get more money than you would think is reasonable for a stupid Reddit account, Two: It's not going to be used for a good reason which only hurts Reddit. Win win right?
Couple of weeks ago I got permanently suspended from reddit. I've been a user for 11 years, they suspended my 11 year old account.
Why? Here's why.
It was in worldnews sub, you probably will remember the video where a cop kills a guy who's threatening others to commit suicide.
All I said was this:
"Sir you cannot kill yourself, that's our job"
BAM. Permanently banned for threatening and spreading violence. It's unbelievable. Mods think they're gods, so do admins. Fuck reddit ,I hope they collapse like WTT building.
I don't use an account for browsing, Infinity let me subscribe to subreddits without an account.
I literally just deleted my account as of a few minutes ago. Read the thread from Christian about him shutting down the Apollo app, read the thread about how shit the Reddit team was treating him (and presumably, they probably treated other third-party devs similarly), and decided that since I was trying to quit Reddit anyways, might as well pull the plug now.
I've been eying out the Fediverse stuff for a while now, but that was the final push to go and join this place to trial it out and see how I like it.