It honestly feels good. I have been mentally divorced from reddit since they doubled down on their API fuckery. I enjoyed my time there but, at this point, I don’t have the energy to move anywhere but forward. I’m glad to have stripped Reddit of my content.

Here’s to starting another life. I hope we can make it a good one.

  • finn@lemmy.worldEnglish
    851·
    1 year ago

    Switching from Reddit to Lemmy feels like going from a mega mall to a local farmer’s market; smaller crowd, better conversations, and you know where everything comes from.

      • SexualMastadon@lemmy.worldEnglish
        13·
        1 year ago

        I can browse c/All now and have a great time. Sure, there’s a an NSFW post here and there, but unlike Reddit it’s not chock full of some toxic shit.

        This place is just good vibes all around.

      • veedant@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        21·
        1 year ago

        Yeah man. I still miss when ragecomic memes were mainstream. Kinda wish I could find em now

    • XbSuper@lemmy.worldEnglish
      20·
      1 year ago

      That sounds potentially illegal. It absolutely would be if the user is from the EU.

    • not_that_guy05@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I made sure all my accounts were suspended. Now I can’t do anything. Oh well. Had 1m karma before being banned. Same user name as now.

      • Captain_Patchy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        1 year ago

        all my accounts were suspended. Now I can’t do anything.

        Actually, you can still overwrite your comments and delete them. I’ve done so once with about 30 resurrected out of the blue posts so far since my permanent ban for a month old nonexistent tos violation. (after having used the power delete suite a dozen or so times to overwrite and delete my 14 years of redditing)

        I’ll keep deleting everything. As a redditor I used to follow suggested, let spez ipo the ashes. I

  • feebl@feddit.nlEnglish
    31·
    1 year ago

    Replaced 13 years of comments with ‘Fuck you u/spez you capitalist scum’, got perma’d 5 hours later. No regrets.

  • Captain_Patchy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    24·
    1 year ago

    I did the same and 2ish weeks later caught a perm ban for a non-existent TOS violation.

    What makes them think I fucking care?

  • DoisBigo@lemmy.eco.brEnglish
    306·
    1 year ago

    That’s cool.

    But did you clean your tummy today?

    Don’t let your emotions and your happiness keep you from doing important stuff, like post here, start communities, reply posts, and clean your tummy.

  • Raven FellBlade@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    22·
    1 year ago

    Same. Only reason my account hasn’t been deleted is so I can continue to purge anything that magically returns, which seems to be a lot so far. I delete comments, everything shows deleted, two days later see a response to a comment that shouldn’t exist anymore.

  • DopePriest@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    1 year ago

    10+ years on Reddit. Sad what happened to it but I’m not about to stick around and sink with that ship. There are subreddits I’ll miss but at this point it is what it is.

  • ItDoBeHowItDoBe@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    1 year ago

    It would be awesome if there were a way to import all of you post and comment history here while deleting it from there. There are a lot of helpful posts and discussions on reddit that will unfortunately set many back in their searches for different answers.

    • axtualdave@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      1 year ago

      I did a GDPR request for all my data, and then aimed the reddit-user-to-sqlite script at it – https://github.com/xavdid/reddit-user-to-sqlite

      The metadata.json & recommendation to use datasette to interact with it makes finding old comments super easy. I’ve been going through all my comments sorted by date, clicking each permalink manually and editing-and-deleting them while bored during the workday (meetings, etc.). It has the added benefit of being incredibly difficult to figure out of I’m a bot or not.

      I’m thinking of, instead, just pasting the content into chatgpt and editing the responses to leave it in place.

      • Archer@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Is there a way to do this but to edit and then delete comments? I have 15 years of comments I don’t want to give to spez

    • happyhippoEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      I kept a CSV of all of my comments and posts via PowerDelete.

      Then I messed up running the tool to update all my posts with a helpful message saying to reach out on Lemmy if needed. But I also kept the “delete” checkbox enabled. Ouch.

      So eventually the whole script took much longer to run, edited all my posts with that useful text, only to delete them later on. I felt sorry for that case I had the best intentions, but there was no way of going back at that point.

  • orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    How are you doing it? I was under the assumption that it’s not possible to do now that the API changes have been made.

    • Brad Ganley@toad.workOPEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

      I’m using Redact. I went through and verified that it worked on my posts and comments just in case. Also, be prepared for more messages from mod bots than you ever thought possible.

      Edit: Realized I didn’t actually link to the tool I’m using. Oopsie poopsie Patrick dancing