It wasn’t the fact that there was a limit to see 1000 comments but what they were. The vast majority of my 12 years on Reddit I spent talking about dungeon and dragons 5th edition (DnD 5e) which I started playing early in is lifestyle. It was my first role playing game and I got sucked into the Internet to learn more. Before my first game I found dndnext where I could learn about the current edition. I spent hours and at least 1000 comments talking about playtests, new books, character concepts, rules, adventures and eventually the new onednd playtest.
If you aren’t familiar with DnD you might be unfamiliar with their owner wizards of the coast (WoTC) which is part of Hasbro. WoTC has been awful this year, trying to rescind their open licence agreement which allows 3rd parties to operate. They broke their workers union with the Pinkertons and their are rumors their new edition will be digital only. I stopped even caring about the new playtests and completely disengaged with learning anything new.
So I was deleting comments on the old forum that provided me so much entertainment about the old game that I used to love. Both ruined in the same year but overwhelming greed. If that isn’t the most millennial late stage capitalism experience I don’t know what is.
I want to shout out to https://ttrpg.network/ for setting up my new DnD forum. It’s been good to be on a new place to discuss the game at it’s new onednd location
The dozen or more subs I had on Reddit is what I miss most of leaving. I found so many map makers, item crafters, homebrew writers, and so much interesting rule debating that I lost overnight.
Good thing we (map makers and other creators) are migrating to Lemmy too! I started posting my maps on various battle map communities here, and I’ve been chatting up some of the other creators to make the move as well!
Some things about the fediverse still escape me. But I’m trying to learn.
I’m on memmy (iOS client) and clicking that link takes me to the apps browser rather than just navigating to the community. I’m guessing because it’s another instance? So I tried searching for the community in memmy’s search bar and I’m finding a bunch of tiny TTRPG groups but not that one from that instance
Still trying to figure out navigation here
I have precisely one thing I left on one reddit account because I can’t bring myself to delete it. I asked a question on a history sub and got a fantastic answer on an obscure question.
You could copy and save it as a text file, and annotate links if necessary. That way you’ll always have it.
Ahhh yeah me too :( Incidentally I also swapped to Pathfinder 2e only a few months before leaving reddit and we’re having a lot of fun in our campaign!
I played a few sessions of PF 2e. It’s fun. If we weren’t 2 years into our campaign I would switch. Next one I think we are going to do pathfinder
Could you not convert your characters over? I don’t play either one (I was more into Palladium games like TMNT and Heroes, or the old Westwood Star Wars), but I feel like it could be doable?
Be aware that Reddit is repeatedly restoring deleted comments. I started editing posts to gibberish and then going back and deleting them about 6 weeks ago. Tonight some of those comments and posts had to be delete for the 4th time.
They are not restoring them, communities go public again making them appear in your profile. For some reason someone thought it was a good idea to hide them in your profile if the community is not accessible.
I deleted my comments for couple of weeks now, today there were only two left, looks like i’m about to finish.
I know that for sure because i export all my deleted comments and i can’t find the reappeared ones in my backup, so i in fact haven’t deleted them.
My experience is different. I’ve deleted the posts and comments from the same subs multiple times.
Same posts too? I don’t know the backend and if the posts and comments get reindexed in the respective accounts, but i can imagine it happening like that
I wonder if mass edit replace would be better. https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/146lloj/protip_if_you_replace_the_content_of_your/
@dumples If I were deleting my comments, I would try to archive them offline for myself.
@dumples OH, that’s great! How did you do that? I would like to archive my comments too, if there is an easy way. Is there some tool for mass downloading (and probably deleting?).
They most-likely used a Reddit Data Request. It’s kind of like Google Takeout if you’ve ever used that. If you’ve already deleted your reddit account it won’t work IIRC. I scrubbed my comments and posts with PowerDeleteSuite a day or two after I submitted the data request, but before I actually revived the data (took 20 days), but all of my comments and posts did show up in the data request. Don’t know if that points to reddit actually keeping that data in their database and just hiding it on the site or not, but either way, if it’s not visible on the site it becomes worthless to them unless they decide to provide that data to someone behind the scenes.