I also did this, 6 years old account, all gone.
It was a great decision cause now I can contribute here
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It would be great to contribute tho. I tried to upload some stuff but most of it didn't go through. Hopefully kbin will soon be somewhat capable to deal with the traffic or many people will lose interest.
What did you tried to upload? kbin.social is working fine for me.
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.
Personally, I always deleted and re-created accounts after a year at most. Still have my current but I've hardly used it since migrating.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Geez you didn’t save the content beforehand? I would absolutely have found a way to archive that stuff first
Why delete though? Its all still there in Reddit's database.
This is called soft delete, if they are a EU resident, they can claim GDPR and get it all wiped, getting "forgotten" is a right.
Nice rights! Its probably harder to exercise than you'd think. Has anyone tried for Reddit?
here's a question, wouldn't it be more impactful to encourage users to redact with a protest statement promoting fedverse first?
assuming they're doing a 30 day backup scheme then this becomes part of their working set going forward. messing with the data in this way especially if we can do it in volume might make it harder for LLMs to extract useful information from our noise.
we then can then start deleting our posts as a second protest after that.
thoughts?
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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.