I’d been using Reddit for 6 years; thousands of hours. All gone, in a quick(ish) running of a script. And once it’s gone, it’s gone. Link rot is gonna be so much bigger soon. And everything that represents a mark on the platform from me will be gone.
I remember spending time on basically every interest I’ve had on there. I remember the memes, the political discussions, the anticipations of football transfers, the stunning source-gathering work on the Ukraine war, the shitposts, the communities willing to help me on the most stupid of questions. The hours spent defending random pixels on a canvas modified by other communities with friends, the awestruck silence of the Snap both in movie form and Reddit form. The support for me as a person when I needed it the most and real life couldn’t, wouldn’t, didn’t give to me.
And in a few minutes, that’ll all be gone. It’s already going away as I type this. Almost feels like a microcosm of my own mortality. Maybe I’m being overly sentimental, but it hurts. Anyone else feel the same?
9 years, and I’ve been a content creator that made it into the “top 1%” of my main sub. More than 200 videos (that have since been put on youtube instead) and just as many written guides, countless comments offering in-depth help etc.
I would be lying if I said the decision was easy, but I nuked everything I could. The posts / submissions are gone, a good chunk of the comments is deleted as well. Sadly shreddit didn’t quite catch everything and now that the account is deleted I can no longer manually nuke my old comments.
The “interesting” part is that I don’t even use third party apps - I use Firefox on my laptop. I also never used bots for moderation purposes as I haven’t been a mod - whenever I called out scammers / repost bots, I did it with a comment warning others and a report to the actual mods. The various changes u/spez wants to still implement wouldn’t even have directly affected me personally, but I found his attitude and behaviour just so incredibly sh*tty, hostile and egotistical that I decided to pull my content from his dumpster fire of a website in solidarity with the people who are directly affected.
Yeah, his attitude and the whole fiasco signify the direction the platform direction. Today it won’t affect you, but tomorrow he will force something unfavorable to you just so he can lure in and makes these teenager an addict.
Same here. Not on the content part, just the bit about solidarity. It hurts, but all the comments are gone now.
9 year creator as well, and I was legitimately sad when I pressed that delete account button. Before running the automated removal scripts I read through each one of my posts and comments and that brought back a lot of interesting memories of a different younger me. I archived what I could and got rid of the rest.
Yes I use third party apps but it’s the whole response from /u/spez and Reddit that really made me call it quits. They’re clearly catering for the Tiktok generation and not users who genuinely want to post original content and build good communities.