good riddance

  • gkd@lemmy.ml
    13·
    1 year ago

    Honestly, even if Lemmy doesn’t grow to be even 1% of the size of Reddit, I think I could seriously enjoy the smaller-community vibe way more. Reddit was starting to get ridiculously flooded with trash content and bots.

    • tomdenhagen2@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I don’t know, it felt kind of mixed to me. I definitely had some feeling of mourning as I was deleting 11 1/2 years of my personal content. The same feeling you might have throwing out childhood toys, or more accurately like old diaries. Nevertheless, I felt strongly that it was the right thing to do to delete all my comments. They’re backup up but it’s all in JSON so I don’t think I’ll revisit it again.

  • WreckingBANG@lemmy.ml
    3·
    1 year ago

    I deleted mine after 3 years. First i was skeptical if i was doing the right thing, but now i am happy i did it.

  • aMalayali@beehaw.org
    2·
    1 year ago

    Backed up and deleted all your posts and comments? Is there some sort-of simple way to do that, for people who’re not programmers?

    • halfpipe@sopuli.xyzOP
      2·
      1 year ago

      I think there is a way to do it, but redditors have been encountering problems accessing the feature necessary for this kind of deletion.

      • aMalayali@beehaw.org
        1·
        1 year ago

        Thank you.
        Many of the subs have gone private and I can’t see any post or comment that I shared there on my profile. Would Power delete suite be able to get those? It seems that it can’t, but asking here incase if there’s some workaround.

        Or would I have to wait for the blackout to end and the subs to become public(if they decide so)?

  • Quentinp@lemmy.ca
    1·
    1 year ago

    Deleted my alt, might delete my main also. Not realy attached to my account (it’s old, came over with the digg wave)

  • azura@fedia.io
    1·
    1 year ago

    I always found that smaller communities do better in the long term. All of the bigger communities I was a part of over the years are now dead or unrecognizable. All the smaller communities are still going strong, even 15 years later.

  • Boterham@feddit.de
    0·
    1 year ago

    I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand: This is the way. But on the other hand: It’s pretty sad if all the knowlegde, that accumulated on reddit, would be lost. Whenever I was searching a problem on the web, there was a reddit post popping up describing exactly my problem and most of the time there was a solution.