Gotta be honest, watching the titles of the posts getting deleted made me a bit nostalgic, because it was an almost 5yo account.
However, now that’s old news, and my account is totally gone.
I won’t miss it really, I like Lemmy a lot more.
Controversial maybe but I’m leaving my 12 years of content up in case there is an answer someone needs
I just won’t use it anymore
That’s super nice of you but in the end it just adds value to a company that doesn’t give a shit about its creators.
The search volume and ads do not justify the help for the greater good IMO.
It fucks Reddit more over to use an adblocker and DDOS their servers to reduce the traffic.Please do not ddos them
The value is the continued creation of content. Without new stuff it gets horning and useless
Consider removing it so users won’t find it… Because the less value they get from reddit, the more likely it is they will come here instead.
Or that they just can’t solve a problem. I’m all for fucking over reddit, but individual users get hit way harder than reddit when you delete posts containing technical info.
There needs to be a script, that moves each of your reddit comment over to Lemmy and edits the reddit comment with a link to the lemmy post
I like this compromise.
I have already seen bots that are moving complete reddit subs to their respective communities. It’s really annoying, because there’s no actual engagement whatsoever
It’s a compromise; the discussions aren’t lost, Reddit doesn’t get to have the data anymore, but like you said, there’s no engagement. The engagement needs to occur over here with new topics, possibly linking back to the copied old ones.
I agree, reddit gets most of their traffic from the engagement surrounding the latest shitposts and low-effort memes. (Or just genuine community content if you prefer)
Months old posts are hardly relevant to large scale user engagement and it’s unlikely that the one user trying to solve a problem by visiting a years old thread is going to have much of an impact.
If people are going to move away from the site in a healthy manner, they need to realise for themselves that it’s time to move on. Better to have a bunch of hopeful and curious people looking for new opportunities rather than bitter and resentful users which are going to vent their frustration elsewhere.
Finally some sane voice. People don’t seem to think 2cm in front of their nose.
But I wanna fuck over my reddit IPO >:(
And if the user deletes it, at least archive it beforehand on archive.org.
Yeah and then they get unhappy with reddit and find Lemmy. :)
And Lemmy will probably not have the answer they’re looking for. As someone who has seen the answer to my problems most likely be in deleted comments before, fucking don’t. It doesn’t make anyone more likely to look at Lemmy, it just makes their lives harder in an already unbearably stressful world.
If you want to purge your memes and witty comments, go for it. Just leave the valuable technical information FOR THE LOVE OF GOD.
It won’t if people remain on reddit. :)
But for individuals, it either does or it doesn’t. It doesn’t matter if someone in a few years happens to ask the same question and get an answer on Lemmy.
I tried a few times already searching for somewith with lemmy like
[] lemmy
or
[technical issue] [instance]Guess how many results came up from that…The SEO right now is shit for those instances and discoverability. Searching for reddit will currently will not even mention something to lemmy or similiar.
Which query did you run?
I did “Lemmy neovim” and finding good results on Kagi:
https://kagi.com/search?q=Lemmy+neovim+&r=se&sh=0osxUy85wg5qQMQB0n_Zvg
A huge number of people who read reddit posts aren’t actually reddit users. Reddit has become just as important a repository of internet knowledge as Stack Overflow or Wikipedia. If you’re having trouble with software or something technical, the information on Reddit is invaluable.
That information does not exist on Lemmy Lemmy as an alternative when it comes to that information that already exists in the world is not a viable alternative.
The best possible thing that people moving to Lemmy can do is leave their comment and post history up, but continue to provide good answers to questions here on Lemmy. Eventually the knowledge on Reddit will be here or outdated enough to fade into obscurity.
I was active in sysadmin subs. My people need those comments
Yeah I was in the Home Assistant sub. The number of times I Googled something I was struggling with, only to find a Reddit thread with MY comment telling people how to solve the exact issue I’m struggling with lol, I’ll leave it up.
Haha… As if my content on Reddit has any value to anyone.
You’d be surprised sometimes.
They won’t come here… They’ll go wherever they can to solve the problem, which won’t be here because Lemmy doesn’t really show up in search results yet
Depends on the search engine I think? I was getting lots of nice results on “Lemmy neovim” on Kagi.
But yeah, fully aware that almost all people use Google and that the current results may not be as good as reddit.
In my experience with google at least, you have to specifically add “lemmy” to get any results to show up (and a lot of them aren’t related to the search term, just general lemmy pages), which doesn’t solve the problem until enough people know to add it.
I’m all for lemmy overtaking reddit but let’s not waste people’s time by deleting useful information 🙃. Deleting comments with solutions to problems will just come off as obnoxious and make people want to avoid lemmy.
Same. I’m not gonna make the internet worse to use because I’ve now left the product. As a user, it’s frustrating when I need help with some niche issue and find the perfect result on google, only for it to be deleted or otherwise useless. Deleting such history isn’t gonna make people want to use Lemmy or the likes. Such historical information doesn’t and will not exist on Lemmy. Deleting it doesn’t push people to an alternative. It just means it’s gone.
I’m not gonna cut off the collective internet’s nose to spite Reddit’s face.
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I would experience negative emotions about Lemmy/k in if I found a reddit thread describing my problem and the lauded solution was changed to say the user moved there. It would not make me want to switch.
This also has the benefit of (eventually) changing your comments in the number of archives of Reddit that exist
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1JSYY0HbudmYYjnZaAMgf2y_GDFgHzZTolK6Yqaz6_kQ and this is the form to remove your data from pushshifts archive
God, I wish I knew about Redacto. I manually deleted my 11 year old account over the course of like 3 days.
the hero we deserve
What? How?
I wouldn’t do it this way.
Reddit is a fucking cesspool. Deleted that shit after they killed 3rd party apps. Wish I had fucked off outta there sooner.
People were saying see you in a week like this was only an API issue and not that the site became incredibly toxic and infested by bots and low quality content
Ill pop in maybe monthly to make sure my stuff stays deleted/edited and Ill check in on /r/all…its a shit show, who is entertaining this? Its karma farming or garbage across the board. Lemmy is super young but it feels like reddit a decade ago. Ill gladly deal with its shortcomings to not deal with whatever reddit turned into.
Tell me why sooner
Doesn’t fully delete. I was still able to find old comments. It gets rid of most. Also reddit is known to restore deleted posts and comments now. Week after I deleted everything was restored automatically.
Post racist conspiracy theories until your scrubbed from the site, it’s your only hope.
Legal advice.
All I had to do was report a pedophile with direct proof to get me banned and it got them a temp 7 day ban -_-.
Reddit is disgusting
wtf - we’re gonna need the full story there…
Some dude admitted to grooming a girl and having sex and a relationship with a 16 year old dude is 27 so I reported it on an alt account
Now keep in mind I am banned from reddit like IP banned so I got on a new account through a VPN and reported this person. This report came back and they temp backend them for 7 days and I woke up the next morning getting perma banned
Now obviously there’s a reason why I was permanently banned for the 12th time but I keep doing this to piss them off and prove a point
I report accounts like these and harass the people and scare them off reddit
All I did was try to keep people safe and that’s why I’m banned.
Some dude also admitted to jerking off into a girl’s water bottle at the gym when she walked away then he admitted to watching her drink it
Like… Wtf is wrong with people and why do they get away with this shit
Look at what I just posted in this sub. I got a lot worse stuff as well
The jizz in the water sounds like bullshit tbh… If anyone doesn’t notice a load in their water bottle they are far too familiar with the taste of it lol.
Using the the N word for good /jk
Ni!
agara Falls.
Actual unethical but nuclear LPT:
Just post a video of something cruel or with shock value you found online^(or do it yourself…I won’t judge). IMO not so different than racist stuff
create outrage
???
profit (and get banned)Edit: I do not condone animal cruelty.
Edit2: In essence: Post something bad on Reddit to get the attention from Admins to get banned site wide. That should hide your comments from anywhere your username is related to.
Just don’t post something to bad, so that it will be reported to the authorities.
Deleted my 10 year account with hundreds of posts and thousands of comments. I have to admit, leaving reddit has created a sort of vacuum in my life, and I have been spending more time scrolling on facebook, news sites and other shitty services. I’m happy to finally have landed on lemmy, but it has been a bit bumpy with the instability on lemmy.world.
Lemmy is getting there but it’s still not a great replacement, especially when it comes to niche topics. For example, the Venture Bros movie came out recently and I wanted to discuss it with other fans, but there’s no place on lemmy for that; or if there is, I have been unable to find it. Meanwhile the Venture Bros subreddit has 3 different megathreads. I’m keeping my reddit account around for things like that until lemmy grows a bit more.
A boycott is rarely comfortable.
Sounds like something for the loads of movie subs you could crosspost to?
It is technically a movie, sure. But more accurately, it’s the conclusion to a show that’s been on the air for almost 20 years. It’s not a movie made to stand on it’s own. Posting it to a movie sub makes as much sense as posting about ancient Roman senators in a politics sub. It’s technically politics, but you’re not going to get very meaningful discussion because it’s not what people go there for. The only people who would watch this movie are fans of the show, and even if a non-fan watched it, why would I give a shit about their opinion of it? They aren’t going to get it.
Are you starting to see the issue?
Yep. Niche community problem right here.
But that’s also a niche platform issue on top.
Yeah I filled that vacuum by learning how to solve a Rubiks cube, and now I’m trying to do it faster. Sync for Lemmy came out and felt just like Sync for Reddit and I was a bit worried I’d fall back into my old ways, which I kind of am tbh, I just have to make sure I’m not on Lemmy as much as Reddit somehow.
Ignore /c/all and be selective about the communities you subscribe to. In addition to other unfortunate browsing behaviours I also started lifting weights and climbing, so something good came out of it 😄
Mine was an 11 year old account with almost 400K karma.
The sad thing was thinking about all the time I spent in it, realizing that it’s time that was literally spent.
I left mine because there’s lots of good info out there that will help people some day, but I’m done posting anymore on there. All my new comments go here.
I actually would recommend deleting. Whatever commercialized AI reddit has cooking up is just going to be trained on your words and information, if it hasn’t already happened.
They’ll just use archived versions instead then. It’s not like you have even a smidge of a chance to find out, so who cares about legal issues or or your right for privacy.
So get your account banned. Can’t promise they won’t still use it, but it’s a lot less likely.
I propose that a new subreddit be created where you post something like “please ban me” and then people who visit will go and report you for sexual abusive and hate speech so you can get your account locked and banned site wide. Maybe there’s already a thing like that?
I felt the same after removing my account of 7 years, it’s a smaller community here but at least we’re starting fresh
I feel ya. I’m never logged in to Reddit anymore and if a search result pointe to Reddit I always go in incognito.
I will eventually batch edit my posts to crap and delete my account but it’s an old account with 10 years of experiences, Aha-moments and other feelings… So I’m not ready yet…
If you just posted nonsense and useless stuff like memes without a real value sure go ahead.
IMO it’s like burning a library of useful knowledge regardless of it’s content. The amount of advice in casual conversations is IMO more important than “giving the finger” to Reddit.
My request if you really do it: Please archive useful advice threads on archive.org so some can at least take advantage while not having to visit reddit itself.
You can never fully delete your reddit account.
Find some old threads that you commented on years ago; chances are that a good portion of them are still there. Your reddit history doesn’t show everything, and AFAIK there are no tools available that can effectively eliminate every single post you’ve ever made, unless of course you simply didn’t make many comments and posts to begin with.
This is only the case if it’s less than 1000 posts or comments
Can’t you just keep running it over an over?
Nope. Reddit orphans posts and comments from accounts. I don’t know the hows or whys.
Last week I stumbled on a 15 year account who tried to do a full wipe before abandoning reddit. Their last and only comment in their profile is their farewell message. Except when you Google search their username it shows their content is still there. Just not associated to their profile page anymore.
Request a GDPR export and you will get your entire comment history. There are tools that can read that history and delete all the comments. I did encounter errors deleting a small number of comments which may have been due to the subs being privated. I deleted the problem ones from the json and the rest got deleted. I manually checked a sample of the 12 years of comments to confirm the accessible ones were being deleted.
Delete your account, look again in 3 months to see if account is gone.
If not request deletion via email amd if not followed by a satisfactory action, file a gdpr complaint. That will fuck them over a bit.
I like Lemmy a lot more than reddit but not having the sports communities over here really kills the usefulness for me. My main use on reddit is talking baseball/football/hockey/soccer/basketball and the sports world just isn’t over here.
Be the change. Create the community on an instance.
There’s communities but just no one active. There’s game threads but am I just supposed to sit there posting to myself all game?
Spread the word on Reddit or anywhere else.
It’s not like Reddit was the number one place when being created.Once lemmy may reach a critical enough mass it will attract the less technical and those are usually your sport sfans.
Make your own sports community
The communities are started, just no activity.
So pick the community that seems the most active and make activity for the stuff you want to see.
If people are looking for that, they’ll gravitate toward the community that’s got some activity in it.
Then you have to wait. And advertise your community on social media or something… you started a community it’s not going to open right away. It takes time for people to find it
The Reddit community is a confusing one. deleted posts, a red hammer down the community is gone. I’ve deleted a couple of accounts. It’s really a community that takes time to run…
It is crazy how quickly I saw that reddit is an actual defilement to the social process.
I kept getting booted out of using RES and old.r and how it wants to control the comments and everything … I don’t know. I’m happy that these federated systems are here. And I have looked at my next months budget to split donation to the cause.
Please have pledge drives right after upgrades or right after we have a big outage. Seems like that would be a great time to push for us to compensate the drivers of this public space.
Fediverse thanks you
