cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1277945

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?

  • Go-On-A-Steam-Train@lemmy.mlEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    I downloaded my comments/posts, then nuked with powerdeletesuite. :) Kept my account open, purely so that I have control over it, and Reddit couldn’t un-delete without me having access to it.

    So far, I miss knowing wrestling news as it was my main source of that, but… Meh no don’t miss it much at all :)

    • persolb@lemmy.mlEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      I tried to nuke it too… turns out reddit has been ignoring delete and edit requests. I think they are rate capping the requests.

      After running powerdeletesuite multiple times with all kinds of settings, I could still find comments of mine not deleted.

      I also requested a GDPR set of account information. ALL of my deleted/edited comments are still there.

      • Go-On-A-Steam-Train@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Oh damn! I there were about 50 stubborn ones that powerdelete couldn’t scrub, so I did those manually, but… I think I’ll do the same, a fresh gdpr dataset after a few weeks would be interesting…

        :) Thanks for the heads up, they’ve become such a weird company, or maybe always were?