Users removing their entire Reddit history might block people from reaching useful info that was in that history. Think of people, who may not be Redditors themselves, searching in the future via google, or whatever, for some useful info that was in your deleted history, just because you wanted to feel good about yourself sticking it to spez, or just because you blindly followed the manic sheeple who advised you to do so.
Deleting your entire Reddit history does not help the cause, not proactively anyway.
What would help the cause is people knowing that a very useful/knowledgeable/interesting user, as evidenced by their Reddit history, has abandoned their platform. Even better, if people knew that the useful/knowledgeable/interesting user has moved to a new platform called Lemmy.
Whether you are planning to leave Reddit completely, or you are splitting your time between here and there, leaving a message like the one below at the end of comments, and/or in its own stickied post in your profile, would be much more helpful than trying to erase your Reddit history:
ð¡ðŒðð²: ððµð² ðŒðð»ð²ð¿ ðŒð³ ððµð¶ð ð®ð°ð°ðŒðð»ð ðµð®ð ð¹ð²ð³ð ð¥ð²ð±ð±ð¶ð ð®ð»ð± ð·ðŒð¶ð»ð²ð± ððµð² ðð²ðºðºð ððŒð¿ð¹ð±.
ð§ðµð¶ð ðºð²ððð®ðŽð² ð¶ð ðð¿ð¶ððð²ð» ððð¶ð»ðŽ ð®ð¹ðð²ð¿ð»ð®ðð¶ðð² ðšð»ð¶ð°ðŒð±ð² ðððºð¯ðŒð¹ð ð¯ð²ð°ð®ððð² ð¥ð²ð±ð±ð¶ð ð®ðœðœð®ð¿ð²ð»ðð¹ð ð±ðŒð²ð ð»ðŒð ðð®ð»ð ððŒð ððŒ ðžð»ðŒð ð®ð¯ðŒðð ðð²ðºðºð.
ðŠðŒ, ðð³ ððŒð ð®ð¿ð² ð¶ð»ðð²ð¿ð²ððð²ð±, ðð¿ð¶ðð² ððµð² ð¹ð¶ð»ðž ð¯ð²ð¹ðŒð ðºð®ð»ðð®ð¹ð¹ð ð¶ð» ððŒðð¿ ð¯ð¿ðŒððð²ð¿ ð®ð±ð±ð¿ð²ðð ð¯ð®ð¿ ð¶ð»ððð²ð®ð± ðŒð³ ð°ðŒðœð-ðœð®ððð¶ð»ðŽ ð¶ð:
ðµðððœð://ð·ðŒð¶ð»-ð¹ð²ðºðºð.ðŒð¿ðŽ/ð¶ð»ððð®ð»ð°ð²ð
If itâs possible to do this to old messages in batch, that would be great, as long as it can be done without triggering automatic Reddit admin alarms.
Getting a copy of your Reddit history via a GDPR request is something you definitely should do.
Saving a lot more of old.reddit in the Internet Archive would also be helpful and great.
But as things stand, do not erase your Reddit history!
Iâm actually reposting my older content here and on lemmy, so itâs not a complete loss. Also, all of my posts were image-based, directly hosted on Reddit, that means I cannot redirect anyone here by any means.
Yeah, I personally donât care about images.
I donât want to make assumptions about what kind of images you post, but I actively block all meme/humor communities anyway.
Images are not text-searchable anyway.
So, all in all, for me, deleting image posts is not that big of a deal.
Forgot to mention, as I already alluded to, you can submit a post to your profile mentioning your full/partial move to Lemmy/kbin. Then in the post page trigger âmake announcementâ and âpin to profileâ.