Ya, you know I haven't opened reddit since the blackout started. I removed "slide" from my phones home screen.
It's kinda sad, but I'm rediscovering RSS, now I've found kbin, and Im fine. I think not mindlessly scrolling reddit after my main interests have been covered has been nice for my brain.
I was going to overwrite mine after 14 years but a significant event made me hold off. My home city in the UK has been in the news for all the wrong reasons and r/nottingham is useful to keep up with events without having to trawl through the mainstream media and all the right-wing trolling that follows them. Maybe next week when I get back home and things have calmed down.
Yeah. I'm feeling like doing the same. I did not post much, and what I did, did not gain much traction. But I think it's time to leave that place.
I couldn't truly nuke my account. I'm studying for mcat and r/MCAT has a ton of better explanations for aamc (test maker) practice tests.
I sort use Lemmy 90% and reddit 10%.
I also installed blacklist to filter out reddit content (their is a toggle to show hidden reddit searches in worst case if needed). This kinda helps give visibility to other sites.
Why delete though? Its all still there in Reddit's database.
I don’t delete my data (posts) because once you google a problem and you realize that a solution that you are looking at is written by you few years back you know you do a good job and you could be saving your future self an headache.
Nope, I did the same yesterday without looking back. I feel happy not to use this corporate crap anymore.
Over a decade on my account, not sure the actual year. I won't be nuking my account, personally. I'm happy with kbin for now and haven't opened reddit since Monday.
Same here for reddit. I won't remove my account just yet, but have unsubbed from a lot of fluff subs I was a part of.
Once RiF goes away I'll use desktop when needed for searches, but I never actually sit on it at a desktop. I'm hopeful all subs I use will come over, but some may not. Namely homelab and homelabsales.
I am struggling to go and do it myself but this helps seeing someone with 12 years of history. Would love to be able to download the 10,000+ pages of stuff I wrote though to not lose it forever.
You can. Reddit will let you request a dump of your data. It's what I'm doing on my 11 yr old account, and once I have that for my own archives I'll nuke the account.
I had this feeling when deleting another social media account. On a good note, it's fleeting. Now most are in the void for me.
Radical problems require radical solutions.
I wasn't an active Redditor, and so far I like this community much better. Might change as the place gets more and more inhibitors.
can anyone recommend an easy tool to do this? I don't want to leave anything behind they can scrape and profit from.
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