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I deleted my reddit account last night. Feels good. Bittersweet but liberating. (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by xe3@lemmy.world to c/casualconversation@lemmy.world

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I’ve never seen a company burn so much goodwill so fast and so unnecessarily.

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[-] GnothiSeauton@lemmy.world 38 points 2 years ago

Me too. Even though I would make new accounts regularly on Reddit, this feels different. A true tabula rasa moment. We will write the future!

And apparently that future starts with the word "Beans".

[-] FixedFun@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago

Kbeans?

[-] KingGordon@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago

Fuck spez the twat.

[-] MrJameGumb@kbin.social 12 points 2 years ago

I have no intention of going back to Reddit, but I can't bring myself to delete the profile yet lol

[-] nmac101@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

Same here. I have so many useful and great posts and even memories there. I wish I hadn't but I can't lose them.

[-] MrJameGumb@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

I invested so much time into it. It feels like deleting a draft of a novel or something

[-] bosshoggwadeboggs@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I met my husband on reddit and I just cant delete our first messages to each other. Maybe I'll screen shot them or something one day.

[-] Tsunominohataraki@sub.wetshaving.social 2 points 2 years ago

Thats sweet. I’m old school (and hoary), I met my wife on IRC.

[-] Sev@feddit.uk 12 points 2 years ago

Welcome!

I did delete my main account and have been mainlining lemmy for my enjoyment, it’s great here and the upvotes and comments are really kicking off now.

I remade a Reddit account to only use for my googles for things (path of exile help atm)

If I do find myself replying, I’ll be using chatgpt to write the most nothing shit. I literally can’t use Reddit on my phone thanks to that awful official app.

Thank fuck for Memmy!

[-] Sterben@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

How did you install Memmy?

[-] berry_chartreuse@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

On IOS, download TestFlight first and then google the Memmy GitHub link, the app hasn’t been released on the App Store yet but it’s finalizing approvals with apple

[-] smoll_pp_operator@vlemmy.net 11 points 2 years ago

Reddit doesn't make anything, the users make the content.

It's both hilarious and sad that Huffman would choose to alienate users. Seriously biting the hand that feeds.

[-] scot@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 years ago

Must not be on Twitter.

[-] TurtleJoe@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

It has been much more of a slow burn on Twitter. Plus, more people used Twitter for real time news, which is a more difficult thing to replace than the shitposting and discussion that Reddit was used for more.

[-] wack@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 years ago

I deleted all my comment history before I deleted my account. 🔥

[-] TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 2 points 2 years ago

So based. I hope old Reddit threads will look like swiss cheese soon

[-] Cryst@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

How do you do this? Do you know how to do a mass edit first so they can't restore it?

[-] xe3@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

There is a tool called power delete suite that can auto edit or auto delete all or some of your Reddit content

[-] Cryst@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

Thank u.

[-] Feweroptions@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

Haven't used it yet myself but I think shreddit does this

[-] Cryst@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

Thank u.

[-] wack@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

Went to each post and comment, edited and deleted. It took a while...

[-] martyc3@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Did the exact same thing.

[-] unphazed@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

I left mine. 11yr old account, 18k karma, 0 posts now

[-] zcd@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

Digg sends its regards

[-] Lininop@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

Y'all are so dramatic lmao. Acting like this is a big life event. You went from looking at shitposts on one app to looking at shit posts on another.

[-] Notyou@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 years ago

Some of these young ones might not have been through a big social media migration before. If Reddit was the only way (or biggest way) they interacted with the internet then it would be a big life event to them.

They have to relearn how to search, verify facts (hah), find porn, and wonder if sarcasm works the same. Idk man let people enjoy their Reddit shit talking. I'm enjoying them shit talk.

[-] SiriusCybernetics@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Same. Figure if enough do so it sends another message.

[-] MaiteRosalie@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

The best kind of feeling

[-] snipgan@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

I did as well

[-] macisr@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

I haven't, because boost somehow still works on it, but after finding the Jerboa app that feels so much like boost, understanding a little more about the instances and all, picking one that i liked, and seeing that the lemmy community is much more interesting. I am just scrolling here now.