When the whole Reddit fiasco started happening, I saw a lot of people wiping and deleting their Reddit accounts and moving elsewhere, like here on Lemmy.
Now that it’s starting to die down a little bit, does anyone regret doing that? Or are you glad that you took that step?
I feel sad looking back over what reddit became. I don't regret any of my actions in response. And even if I did, my actions were reddit's fault; they'd get the blame, so I'd still have nothing to regret.
I won't contribute to a website that treats the people who built it the way they did, so their choice to treat their community and app devs that way directly resulted in my actions.
I haven't, this time. But I don't use it. I have been on Reddit exactly five times since the protests began and only two of those were on purpose. The others were by clicking links from here that I didn't realize went there. The two that were on purpose were related to doing a data request and checking on it.
I have deleted a long standing account before and didn't regret it. I just switched to an alt. My current account participated in some long-tail mental health support, some of my comments and posts get responded to months/years later thanking me for help. I am not so petty that I would remove content that may actual help someone.
My current account participated in some long-tail mental health support, some of my comments and posts get responded to months/years later thanking me for help. I am not so petty that I would remove content that may actual help someone.
Same here. Instead of deleting comments though, I overwrote them with some random nonsense kids poem. Any little thing I can do to screw up their inevitable monetization as a dataset for LLMs.
I had a ten-year-old account that had accumulated a modest amount of karma (34000?) over the years, and had no regrets editing and deleting all the posts (roughly 2700 of them).
I'd contributed in a number of niche subreddits and felt disgusted by the greed that Reddit was showing. More than anything the disgust that they would be profiting off my information was what pushed me to do the editing/deleting.
And since then, I realise I haven't really missed anything.
Caveat: I was never really bound by my karma score anyway, though, and regularly fact-checked people I knew would not listen just to "spend" my karma anyway.
still have not done it. still have not recieved my data. got to get off my ass and email complain to them and maybe look to see how to make a gdpr complaint or how long before they are in violation
I started routinely deleting my comments anyhow after someone creeped me out by searching through my history for ammunition to use in an argument. I just deleted the five or six recent ones I hadn’t done yet, and that was that. I’ve kept my account because it might come in handy at some point, but I’ve only been on Reddit once in the past few weeks.
14 year old account with lots comment activity. Deleted all of the posts and then the account the moment I understood what was going on.
Anyway everything on Reddit had been created in about a decade and something better be recreated again even faster. The above analogy of Reddit being a library is a bit off to my ears-- Reddit is not the content you find there, Reddit is the people; the expertise, the moderation, the consideration, the passion. We can safely burn the siphons tapped into people's passions and let the energies of the people pour elsewhere.
I haven’t nuked my account yet and will only do so once I am certain that all my comments are permanently deleted (some were missed due to a design limitation in the way Reddit finds them). But practically speaking, I am no longer using that account, so it is functionally equivalent to having deleted it.
I have no regret so far. Deleting my trail of crumbs has assuaged my fear of doxxing (which, in all honesty, is orthogonal to the API shutdown fiasco and was worth doing selectively anyway). It has also given me back time that I would spend mindlessly doomscrolling on Reddit. I am now more deliberate in my use of social media and the Fediverse, which is an improvement in my online habits. For that I am grateful.
Not really, but I had already habituated myself to nuking accounts and deleting posts routinely long before now. I regret Reddit became what it is, not disconnecting from that.
I didn't delete my account but did delete RIF once it stopped working. I was mostly a lurker on reddit and the few comments and posts i did make are of little to no value to the platform.
I figured wasting a few MB of space on a harddrive would be a more effective protest than doing them a favor and deleting my admittedly worthless content.
I had an account that was over 10 years old, but didn't actually have a ton of usage; I didn't have a lot of posts that got upvoted, I think I had under 1000 karma. But I don't regret deleting it at all.
I regret that, ideologically, I don't want to ever reward the leadership there with my patronage in any way, which means there's a ton of content sitting in their archives that I don't want to access now. If I ever had to, I could, but I'd rather do anything else first. Just look what management did; they don't deserve the reward of attention, clicks, or especially additional free content generation, far as I'm concerned.
I guess they were almost right, in a very backwards, stupid way; the main value for me doesn't lie in the users, but in the content. Unfortunately, you can't screw over the users that generate that content in good faith, no matter how much you think you can sell that content for.
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