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Nuking old Reddit accounts (lemm.ee)
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I took part in the Reddit blackout a month ago, and accessed Reddit through Apollo. After the blackout I looked at Reddit a handful of times and then let my association with Reddit die with Apollo.

I haven’t been there since, but now I feel as though I should have deleted my account of 7 years, that way everything I ever contributed will be gone.

However, to accomplish this as you all know I should delete all my posts first and edit all comments. I was wondering what people used to do this. I want everything to read “Edit: moved to Lemmy”.

I’m sure others migrating here have the same question. Thanks.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm conflicted about this. Given how much information is locked into Reddit communities, if everyone purged their accounts we'd lose an immense amount of useful knowledge. On the other hand, that is exactly how to hit Reddit where it hurts.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I look at it this way… I’d rather the information start being posted here or somewhere besides Reddit, and eventually that place will be more relevant.

Reddit is not essential.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But… is it posted here? This intentional degradation/rot feels like the burning of Alexandria.

If one has a history of only making comments that they don't consider to have value then, maybe.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I see that those people will eventually move to another platform and it will be there.

Yeah, it’s surely a loss in the short term. Just makes me sick to think about Huffman getting rich off the content so many others created and moderated. Reddit hasn’t even done a very good job creating a good platform. The just bought out Alien Blue and have made that shittier ever since. Same with old Reddit, it was so good because it was simple yet effective, and they’ve slowly been destroying that for some time.

Monetizing ruined a great thing and they shouldn’t benefit from that.

THEY ruined Reddit and a good thing. Had they not done that, all the content and users would be there. They’d still be making money. They just want more and have been compromising the product on their end and have been held up

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It's for the greater whole. There's no such thing as a painless revolution.