I’m curious for those of you who have done this: Have you archived anything?
It’s hard to part with a 14 year old account and so much history. I know there are sites that archive reddit and of course archive.org. But nothing is a sure thing unless you are the custodian. It’s such a huge snapshot of my life… Proud of some of it. Not proud of other parts. But that’s the beauty of it.
Also I’ve heard Reddit is reversing anyone who does this anyways… so… yea. Might not go well in the EU, but they probably can get away with it in the US.
Yes, that’s what I did. I’ve made reddit bots before so I just modified one of my old ones to go through every one of my comments and save them in an excel file. I then edited the comments to say that if anyone needs a particular comment, they should message me on Lemmy. IMO it’s the best of both worlds - people can still get their data in case my comments were helpful, and Reddit won’t get my comments
I just edited 11 years worth of comments, about 4,000 I think, and I didn’t bother backing any of it up. Going through them all beforehand I didn’t feel any need to keep that crap around, most of it was either tired jokes or arguments that I’d rather not reminisce on. I’m having a lot more fun here anyway.
I’m going to keep the account though until I feel satisfied that everything will stay edited or deleted.
