Deleting my Reddit comments was a strange experience.

It wasn't the fact that there was a limit to see 1000 comments but what they were. The vast majority of my 12 years on Reddit I spent talking about dungeon and dragons 5th edition (DnD 5e) which I started playing early in is lifestyle. It was my first role playing game and I got sucked into the Internet to learn more. Before my first game I found dndnext where I could learn about the current edition. I spent hours and at least 1000 comments talking about playtests, new books, character concepts, rules, adventures and eventually the new onednd playtest.

If you aren't familiar with DnD you might be unfamiliar with their owner wizards of the coast (WoTC) which is part of Hasbro. WoTC has been awful this year, trying to rescind their open licence agreement which allows 3rd parties to operate. They broke their workers union with the Pinkertons and their are rumors their new edition will be digital only. I stopped even caring about the new playtests and completely disengaged with learning anything new.

So I was deleting comments on the old forum that provided me so much entertainment about the old game that I used to love. Both ruined in the same year but overwhelming greed. If that isn't the most millennial late stage capitalism experience I don't know what is.

lobster_irl,
@lobster_irl@kbin.social avatar

Ahhh yeah me too :( Incidentally I also swapped to Pathfinder 2e only a few months before leaving reddit and we’re having a lot of fun in our campaign!

dumples,
@dumples@kbin.social avatar

I played a few sessions of PF 2e. It's fun. If we weren't 2 years into our campaign I would switch. Next one I think we are going to do pathfinder

lobster_irl,
@lobster_irl@kbin.social avatar

We switched mid campaign, but we luckily had a good reason for the changes as we just ended up in the feywild so whenever anything weird comes up we can wave our hands at the fey 😂

Lells,
@Lells@kbin.social avatar

Could you not convert your characters over? I don't play either one (I was more into Palladium games like TMNT and Heroes, or the old Westwood Star Wars), but I feel like it could be doable?

dumples,
@dumples@kbin.social avatar

You can but nothing is ever directly equivalent so it's easier to do earlier. Besides we're already this deep and it's not like we are paying anything since we're using static source books

dumples,
@dumples@kbin.social avatar

I want to shout out to https://ttrpg.network/ for setting up my new DnD forum. It's been good to be on a new place to discuss the game at it's new onednd location

Neato,
@Neato@kbin.social avatar

The dozen or more subs I had on Reddit is what I miss most of leaving. I found so many map makers, item crafters, homebrew writers, and so much interesting rule debating that I lost overnight.

dumples,
@dumples@kbin.social avatar

Of course. People just want to connect with other people

Domille,

Good thing we (map makers and other creators) are migrating to Lemmy too! I started posting my maps on various battle map communities here, and I’ve been chatting up some of the other creators to make the move as well!

Neato,
@Neato@kbin.social avatar

Thanks! I forgot to search for battlemaps when subscribing. I hope more content gets posted on these instances. Do need to figure out why dnd content never hits my subscribed feed when I'm a member of life 2 dozen dnd channels.

dumples,
@dumples@kbin.social avatar

I'm sure you can join ttrpg.network with a battlemap community. It's suppose to be a one stop shop for ttrpg

Anomalous_Llama,

Some things about the fediverse still escape me. But I’m trying to learn.

I’m on memmy (iOS client) and clicking that link takes me to the apps browser rather than just navigating to the community. I’m guessing because it’s another instance? So I tried searching for the community in memmy’s search bar and I’m finding a bunch of tiny TTRPG groups but not that one from that instance

Still trying to figure out navigation here

spaghettiwestern,

Be aware that Reddit is repeatedly restoring deleted comments. I started editing posts to gibberish and then going back and deleting them about 6 weeks ago. Tonight some of those comments and posts had to be delete for the 4th time.

Garden_Ramsay,

I wonder if mass edit replace would be better. reddit.com/…/protip_if_you_replace_the_content_of…

Contend6248,

They are not restoring them, communities go public again making them appear in your profile. For some reason someone thought it was a good idea to hide them in your profile if the community is not accessible.

I deleted my comments for couple of weeks now, today there were only two left, looks like i’m about to finish.

I know that for sure because i export all my deleted comments and i can’t find the reappeared ones in my backup, so i in fact haven’t deleted them.

spaghettiwestern,

My experience is different. I’ve deleted the posts and comments from the same subs multiple times.

Contend6248,

Same posts too? I don’t know the backend and if the posts and comments get reindexed in the respective accounts, but i can imagine it happening like that

spaghettiwestern,

Same posts and comments. I’ve deleted both for multiple subs only to log in a couple of days later only to find them back again. It’s happened multiple times. Other people have posted that same thing has happened to them, sometimes with much older posts and comments.

imaqtpie,
@imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works avatar

Hi from Lemmy! I hadn’t been able to federate here before and my comments weren’t showing up but now it’s working.

I didn’t know about all that WOTC was doing to DnD but I am familiar with them because I used to play Heroscape. That’s absolutely fucked and you have my sympathy.

The good news is that we are on the verge of building something that we own on Lemmy, where corporations won’t be able to fuck with us as much.

apemint,
@apemint@kbin.social avatar

The good news is that we are on the verge of building something that we own on Lemmy, where corporations won’t be able to fuck with us as much.

Yeah, about that...
Let's see what happens when Meta decides to federate Threads with the rest of us.

I really hope you're right because I love this place right now. It's much smaller than other platforms but there's enough content for hours of browsing and the community is leagues above the rest of the internet in terms of quality of discourse.

Outside of the fedi, I don't remember the last time I saw opposing views coexist in the same thread without one being brigaded.

imaqtpie,
@imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works avatar

Meta doesn’t get to decide. We do. That’s what I love so much about Lemmy.

The day this instance federates with Meta is the day I leave. They, and any other big corporations, can fuck all the way off. We have seen where that path leads time and time again.

sh.itjust.works/comment/714654

The userbase is everything and we have the people we need. Everything else will eventually coalesce around that.

Madison_rogue,
@Madison_rogue@kbin.social avatar

@dumples

I saw a video on Nebula a couple days ago about D&D that discusses everything you just mentioned about the litigation and subsequent fallout over the years with the game. This guy responded that the video is now out on YouTube. I think you'll see that a lot of what's been going on with the game is very repetitive.

Kbin_space_program,

I have precisely one thing I left on one reddit account because I can't bring myself to delete it. I asked a question on a history sub and got a fantastic answer on an obscure question.

dumples,
@dumples@kbin.social avatar

I loved askhistorians. It answered questions I didn't know I had

Madison_rogue,
@Madison_rogue@kbin.social avatar

You could copy and save it as a text file, and annotate links if necessary. That way you'll always have it.

Very_Bad_Janet,

They could also copy the question and the substantive answers and post them on the Fediverse AskHistorians community/magazine.

thingsiplay,
@thingsiplay@kbin.social avatar

@dumples If I were deleting my comments, I would try to archive them offline for myself.

dumples,
@dumples@kbin.social avatar

I got my Reddit data download. Also it's more symbolic than anything.

thingsiplay,
@thingsiplay@kbin.social avatar

@dumples OH, that's great! How did you do that? I would like to archive my comments too, if there is an easy way. Is there some tool for mass downloading (and probably deleting?).

dumples,
@dumples@kbin.social avatar

Can't remember. I found the link to do it on here

can,

There’s an official data request but I haven’t gotten mine. There’s scripts for deleting comments and apparently they still work.

sneakyninjapants,

They most-likely used a Reddit Data Request. It’s kind of like Google Takeout if you’ve ever used that. If you’ve already deleted your reddit account it won’t work IIRC. I scrubbed my comments and posts with PowerDeleteSuite a day or two after I submitted the data request, but before I actually revived the data (took 20 days), but all of my comments and posts did show up in the data request. Don’t know if that points to reddit actually keeping that data in their database and just hiding it on the site or not, but either way, if it’s not visible on the site it becomes worthless to them unless they decide to provide that data to someone behind the scenes.

thingsiplay,
@thingsiplay@kbin.social avatar

@sneakyninjapants I know some people complained that Reddit would reinstate all comments that was deleted by hand, every single one. So if you delete your account, maybe Reddit will bring the comments back after some time. I didn't delete my account so far, only logged out and not logged in since. As I'm in the EU, Reddit probably has to provide such an option to download and delete my comments, but I'm not sure. Not going to log in for the moment. I will have this in mind though, thanks for point it out.

mutant,
@mutant@kbin.social avatar

imagine thinking deleting all your posts will affect anybody else but you lmfao

dumples,
@dumples@kbin.social avatar

It does only affect me. What's wrong with one person being hurt?

greatwhitebuffalo41,
@greatwhitebuffalo41@slrpnk.net avatar

This person has to hurt others to make themselves feel better, you’re best to just ignore.

DreamyDolphin,
@DreamyDolphin@kbin.social avatar

Helpful tip: if, hypothetically, you come across a prolific poster who seems to only thrive on bitter negativity, you can go to their profile and click the "block" option next to the "follow" one near the top of the page and they'll never turn up in your browsing again. Good for peace of mind.

Thorned_Rose,
@Thorned_Rose@kbin.social avatar

The user Mutant seem to be going around various communities to either vent their misplaced rage or cause shit. Or maybe both. Check out their comment history. Then feel free to block them.

Huxleywaswrite,

Imagine coming to the comments with nothing worthwhile to contribute, yet doing it anyway

TimeSquirrel,
@TimeSquirrel@kbin.social avatar

Imagine thinking you're still on Reddit and acting like a dick is a normal thing to do.

numbscroll,
@numbscroll@kbin.social avatar

Fucking clown. Bye 👋

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