I’m leaving Reddit but I don’t think I can bring myself to delete my account. I have posts from years ago that still show up on google and help people. That’s the only reason though.

It’s funny. I never had a Reddit account but because of the shitstorm I came to realize a lot of my troubleshooting was done via Reddit posts. And when kbin and Lemmy popped up as alternatives i created accounts there to try and make it more of a two way street. Although kbin.social is struggling so hard with traffic (for me at least) that I’m primarily on Lemmy now

I was thrown off Reddit anyway after I went off on a man who was complaining that his wife didn't want to do violent fetishes.

Out of curiosity, is there an easy way to delete user data from Reddit?

agree about the differences between here and the alien. there's civility and discourse here - a good amount of fun - a sense of newness yet familiar. ive engaged more here than i have in 4 years on reddit - thanks all to a great community and gracious hosts running these servers ❤️

@JustineSmithies in a way, i am sad to see Reddit go, but only because it was really formative for me as a young autistic kid living on his own for the first time. i was so embedded into that site, i had even met most of the founders. i met some admins. i saw the darknet market subreddits come and go. what a journey.

edit: forgot to mention, i had been on since late 2006. so, the digg exodus basically.

Same here. I refuse to be member of a community where its corporate side is completely anti-community…to put it nicely.

Never thought I'd leave Reddit but I did. Yay us lol

@JustineSmithies I'll prolly stick around, though with the loss of 3rd party apps, my little visiting, once daily to consume content there, will likely cut down to once a week or less.

Deleted my account of 15 years with the quickness after the Spez AMA. Just didn't want to participate in that ecosystem anymore and saw the writing on the wall. I came to Reddit from Digg and never went back either.

The fediverse seems to be the future even with any inherent growing pains. I just can't trust one idiot to make decisions for everyone.

I’m in this for the long haul. Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez. I’m here to stay and make this place great. Assuming I can find all the same communities again.

In retrospect, I was spending way too much of my time scrolling on reddit. It's very apparent now that I catch myself constantly opening a folder on my phone to tap the reddit icon. Like, constantly.

I miss the days of old, slower forums like Totse. If this community remains mostly active, I'm open to making this my new home. Either way, I don't intend to return to reddit.

Force of habit is a very real thing. Create a shortcut of lemmy bookmark and put in place where old Reddit app icon used to be. iPhone safari allows placing bookmarks on home screen and lemmy works mostly like an app when you do that. Android also has that feature.

Replace Reddit phone app placement with lemmy bookmark and you will instantly find yourself using only lemmy.

Had no problem leaving Reddit considering I’m permabanned

I deleted Twitter without replacement. It felt like I didn't need micro blog posts in my life and I still don't miss it months later.

Reddit I will miss I believe. Once RIF stops working, if things don't get resolved, I'll stop using it and likely delete my account. So far lemmy is a lot of fun and feels a bit like old wild west internet used to feel. Currently it works good enough for the time being and it'll surely improve.