Im working up the courage to. Ill never go back, but it is also hard to delete that much history just for a statement
Couple of weeks ago I got permanently suspended from reddit. I’ve been a user for 11 years, they suspended my 11 year old account.
Why? Here’s why.
It was in worldnews sub, you probably will remember the video where a cop kills a guy who’s threatening others to commit suicide.
All I said was this:
“Sir you cannot kill yourself, that’s our job”
BAM. Permanently banned for threatening and spreading violence. It’s unbelievable. Mods think they’re gods, so do admins. Fuck reddit ,I hope they collapse like WTT building.
No, there’s too many little niche subreddits that lemmy doesn’t even come close to replicating. I have been using the official reddit app for the better part of a year so I’m not personally affected by the ban on 3rd party apps.
as someone pointed out in this comment, I don’t think deleting all the content we generated thoughout the years is a good idea. I still get replies on years old posts from people who had that same exact question, and the amount of information I actively find on reddit is crazy. Reddit won’t care about deleted accounts and posts (and they will only be a minority anyway), and I think doing so is a disservice to every person on the web.
Unless you only posted in r/memes and r/askreddit lol
I get that, but Reddit will be (and has already been) monetizing the content you created. They will also be selling the content to LLMs (large language models) to train AI models. So while I agree you are doing a disservice to people looking for useful content, you are also allowing Reddit / spez etc to monetize your content while giving a big finger to mods, volunteers, communities and 3rd party app developers.
I get where you’re coming from, but I’m honestly so annoyed by the general trend of moving from openly accessible online forums to private channels over the recent years. Trying to find answers to many niche questions now often feels like being back in middle school and spending hours or days finding the right IRC channel - only now it’s not IRC channels but discord servers.
Reddit can monetize my shit all they want, I’m not gonna contribute to that.
I deleted my 10 year old account and haven’t looked back. It was all useless karma after all.
After six or seven years on Reddit, I finally deleted it and have removed it from my bookmarks. It’s a little unusual trying to find communities for certain things I only used Reddit for, but I like it nonetheless.
