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Im working up the courage to. Ill never go back, but it is also hard to delete that much history just for a statement

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[–] Ebahn13@pawb.social 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Just did it yesterday after realizing that the only real use Reddit got was bookmarking funny cats and doom scrolling. Twitter is next, just gotta save some "useful media" first

[–] Omnissiah@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Whenever I saved the "useful" stuff of something, I later realized I never looked at it again or even if I did it wasn't all that important. The monkey brain just likes to hoard.

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I’ll be deleting my 10+ year account once Apollo dies. May lurk in a few communities for a bit until there’s something similar here.

[–] sparklingsquirrel@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

I already deleted all my comments and posts and when the time comes and RIF is down I'll delete my whole account.

[–] jbrtn@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

Purged everything this morning bar for one last comment on the Apollo thread. Currently using kbin.social - exploring my options, but I wont be returning to Reddit.

[–] HippoMoto@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Fully deleted. Never going back. To be honest, I was looking for a reason to get off. Glad it’s done.

[–] Crabhands@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I have. And i would love for it to be permanent, but that's going to depend on if Lemmy continues to build content. At the end of the day, I like this platform but without content I won't stay. Current momentum is looking fantastic though, and I will continue to comment and add my pieces!

[–] Dylan96@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (7 children)

I find lemmy too complex and technical to succeed...

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[–] citrixscu@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

Not yet but I haven’t used it since the Apollo drama.

[–] williamallenbro@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

I think I'm still holding out hope that they will come to their senses, but I'll probably delete eventually.

[–] manifex@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

I'm not deleting, just abandoning. I had another person step up to mod the only community I was modding.

[–] Aninjanameddaryll@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago

I've wiped my author account and main account.

But I won't delete the accounts because fuck them, they don't get to recycle those. I could delete the account under this name, because it was just my alt for moderating, and it's such an inside joke that only maybe five people would get that it isn't worth deleting.

[–] jazir5@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

I just decided to move here permanently myself.

[–] gratux@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 years ago

I'm currently downloading all my stuff, saved and upvoted posts etc. After that, we'll see.

[–] dylan@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 years ago

I was always a lurker on Reddit so I don’t have to worry about purging post or comment history. I literally just haven’t gotten around to deleting it yet. I’ll miss the more local niche communities, but they’ll show up here and in other places in time.

[–] RolandTheJabberwocky@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Just deleted RiF in anticipation of the blackout. Ill check it again on the first of next month and if it doesn't exist or work ill be gone for good. Going to suck, mainly need to find a new source for news, possibly on youtube or here, just enough to be up to date.

[–] SplashingCobalt@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

I'll keep my reddit until Sync stop working.

[–] polite_cat@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I yeeted my account today. I've used reddit for ~10 years now. It's sad about some niche communities and inside-jokes, but if people keep using lemmy i'm sure they will find their way here eventually.

[–] solor@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago

Didn't delete my reddit account and probably won't. Just leaving it abandoned and lurk every once in a while.

[–] Marko@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I didn't delete my account, but my local community and I have switched to Discord and Lemmy. I think I'm now spending more time on these two services than on Reddit.

[–] x-ray@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I haven’t yet. I’ll probably keep using Reddit until June 30th besides maybe the protest days next week. I’m not sure if I’ll delete my accounts after June 30th or not though in case I need them for a one-off use case in the future.

I will say that it’d be easier to delete my accounts now than a couple years ago. A couple years ago, I was trying to make sure I never lost access to my original Reddit account by changing my password to be more secure, but my password manager failed to save the new password. I got locked out of my original nearly 10 year old Reddit account with a bit of a rare username. The only reason I have access to it now is it’s still logged in through Apollo, but I guess I’ll lose it forever on June 30th. I guess it doesn’t matter if I’m trying to move here anyways.

[–] neblem@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'm holding out with some copium for now. There's some local subs and niche subs that I'd like to still follow that will likely not migrate. I'll likely switch to RSS and old.reddit only once RIF dies and Lemmy and mastodon will likely be my mobile social media. I don't mind using multiple social media apps, but it'd be great to have it all in one place.

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