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?
14 years, 17 accounts, ~2000000 karma. Nuked everything: deleted comments and submissions, de-modded myself, unsubbed from everything, gilded various protest content using the coins I’d been given over the years, bought a cool Apollo app t-shirt, walked out and walked away. Nope, don’t miss it; I’m exploring kbin and tildes, and getting my meme content from imgur. Which is ironic in a way, because the sole reason imgur was created was because reddit refused to allow native images.
Are you having regrets? It’s okay to have regrets.
imgur
I forgot about that…been a while old friend.
Edit: HOLY FUCKNUGGETS BATMAN! It’s still alive and well?!
What is kbin and tildes?
Always weird to read comments like this while on Kbin. Kbin is another “threadiverse” instance. Like Lemmy or whatever.
Yeah, it becomes so second nature that I’m on kbin that it’s a weird kind of dissonance, like someone asking what’s Reddit on Reddit.
Kbin is a part of the Fediverse and is similar to Lemmy. I have a kbin.social account and am replying to you from kbin. (I subscribe to a lot of Lemmy communities via kbin).
Tildes is not a part of the Fediverse. It is a text-driven private forum basically created and run by one person. You need an invite from a Tildes account holder to join. It’s its own little island. am on Tildes a lot and really like it.
No ragrets at all! Not even one letter! My biggest problem is trying to figure out how to manage all of the similarly named magazines and communities.
No.
Nope, good riddance.
No regerts…not even one letter.
Seriously, I deleted my posts and comments by my cake day (June 26th), and deleted my account on June 29th. Good riddance.
Not even a second. I’m glad to first got rid of Facebook several years ago. Then Twitter. And recently also Reddit. No regrets.
Ps. I also don’t have Instagram, TikTok or any of those non-sense.
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.
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.
I didn’t delete my account, but I am never going back. I am done creating “free” content for reddit. Hope it ends up like Twitter.
I still have an account there, though I’m not using it much and am considering my options for data takeout and deletion. It feels pretty different to me, though, honestly. I think seeing it as though “things are dying down” is short-sighted. With the mod teams wiped, BotDefense gone, and so forth, I don’t think things are going to stay “back to normal” for long, even if you think they’re there at the moment, which I kinda don’t.
That said, I’m not at all certain the fediverse can take its place. It’ll depend a lot on how many folks start to use it. It’s an uphill battle.
But Reddit, well, I expect it to head downhill pretty badly.
Removed by mod
Kinda comes with being on /m/redditmigration, no?
No.
Nope, no regrets here.
Reddit is dead to me. It was fun while it lasted, but it’s now in the past. Kbin is where I’ll be going forward.
I still have an account (to make sure things stay deleted) but I jumped ship three weeks ago. No regrets.
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.
No regrets.
