The fact that Reddit can still tell you that the user deleted their account is proof that not all of that user’s data in their systems are deleted. It may just be a flag in an account that marks them as “deleted”, and so whenever data about that account is being retrieved, their API server will look at that flag, and tell the recipient that the account is “deleted”. People in the software industry calls this “soft deletion”.

Based.

But on a serious note I was getting really sick of reddit (especially the default/large subs) even before this debacle with third party apps. But I am not sure how much it's me that have changed and how much it's actually reddit having changed. I guess it's a bit/a lot of both.

f7u12 was a long time ago now

I was a member of reddit for 15 years and accumulated 150K in karma. 1 week ago, I was shadowbanned - probably because I suggested kbin.social multiple times. No reason, no warning - just total ban. I can still logon but nobody else can see my posts or history. F**kers.

Did the same thing two weeks ago. It was an 11 year old account.

Now it's all gone. Every bit of advice I gave, things I learned, knowledge I passed along, and pointless arguments I had, have all gone to the bit bucket.

And I feel good about it.

TBH It was a fun journey, but sadly all good things must come to an end. And now it is up to us, the Lemmy community to create a fun place for others.

I clicked a link that brought me to reddit yesterday, and you know ehat i noticed on the 5 month old thread? A bunch of deleted user names but the comments and info shared was still there under deleted

Just deleted mine after seeing this. My reason for leaving comment: "Pee pee poo poo"

Fuck u/spez, that greedy little pig boy.

Yesterday I finally did it also, deleted my Twitter account from 2008 and my Reddit account from 2006. It's better like that. I still have Instagram and Facebook which is more difficult to delete because that's where friends and family still post who I would like to stay in touch with.

I deleted a few weeks ago. I never left any personally identifiable comments, but I do miss the platform. It's a shame what greed does to people.

Welcome muhyb, welcome.

Come sit down and rest. We have vintage memes on draught. There are many refugees here. It is good.

I've manually removed all my posts before deleting the account and they are still available ... This is total bullshit but I still I will never have second thought.

Although there are personal information on some of these posts (eg. link to Github with my first/last name in it), so maybe I can press charge or something ...

I work in IT and the forums for that are the only reason I still have an account. But I rarely use it and will delete when hopefully the Lemmy community grows to include those as well

reddit bad

pls gibe upvotes

thx

230k karma, 0 posts in Q3 2023. Fuck you spez

I was u/aeughfish. Reddit sucked to the point to where I deleted my account. It had over 20,000 karma.