Does anyone regret deleting their Reddit account?

14 years, 17 accounts, ~2000000 karma. Nuked everything: deleted comments and submissions, de-modded myself, unsubbed from everything, gilded various protest content using the coins I'd been given over the years, bought a cool Apollo app t-shirt, walked out and walked away. Nope, don't miss it; I'm exploring kbin and tildes, and getting my meme content from imgur. Which is ironic in a way, because the sole reason imgur was created was because reddit refused to allow native images.

Are you having regrets? It's okay to have regrets.

What is kbin and tildes?
- Always weird to read comments like this while on Kbin. Kbin is another "threadiverse" instance. Like Lemmy or whatever.
- Kbin is a part of the Fediverse and is similar to Lemmy. I have a kbin.social account and am replying to you from kbin. (I subscribe to a lot of Lemmy communities via kbin).
  
  Tildes is not a part of the Fediverse. It is a text-driven private forum basically created and run by one person. You need an invite from a Tildes account holder to join. It's its own little island. am on Tildes a lot and really like it.
- Kbin is a different software than Lemmy, although similar.
  It has only been around a few months (unlike lemmy that has years in development).
  
  It offers what seems to me a more centralized view of the fediverse, with federation to lemmy servers and mastodon servers as well.
  
  It has access to the microblogging feature, that is like sending a toot from mastodon.
  
  I've found it to be a more familiar experience to Reddit, and honestly, I prefer it over lemmy.
  
  Due to it being so new, it has many missing features lemmy might have, like mobile apps (the API is still not public, and it's being worked on).
  
  HOWEVER, Kbin has a great community backing it up.
  I'm currently posting this from the amazing Artemis beta app for Kbin, the first of its kind.
  This is due to the incredible job @Hariette has done!!
imgur

I forgot about that...been a while old friend.

Edit: HOLY FUCKNUGGETS BATMAN! It’s still alive and well?!

I didn't delete anything, because there's quite a bit of programming & tech advice. I always knew reddit was profiting off my contribution, everybody should have known that from the beginning.

I'll stop contributing, but I don't like how much useful information has gone dark or otherwise suddenly just been lost. I wouldn't burn a library down because they started charging exorbitant late fees, I would just stop going there.

Why I left mine intact. The Reddit "library," as it were, remains one of the largest and most significant public goods online. I think that's more important than burning my contributions in the hopes that Reddit management will do a 180. I also pinned a post advertising kbin/lemmy and Squabbles on my profile.

I'm certainly no longer participating, however, and I don't think Reddit's built to survive only on visitors from Google.
Tech/programming stuff is exactly why I did nuke mine. Going isn't as meaningful if you leave a bunch of value behind when you do. While I'm here for entertainment now, I'm often spending my reddit time during work hours on vendor-hosted support forums, stackexchange, etc. now.

Gradually, that library will be relocated to other places. Instead of just not going, I think it's better to take away others' reasons for going too, give them reason to seek out better libraries.
- Good thing is that the content is not lost for those that know to surf the web. But those locations don't help reddit at all (main one is the wayback machine from archive.org and then there is a raw datadump of anyhting up to march 2023 as JSON)
I didn't delete my account, but I did wipe out my post history.

I keep my account active because I've already found a couple of instances where reddit restored my posts in particular sub reddits ands I had to delete them again.
- I wish I had gone with this route, but I honestly didn't foresee the possibility that admin might restore what's been deleted or edited.
  
  I had no intention of ever using the account to add content in the future, but in retrospect it would have been better to keep it in a dormant state.
If I deleted my account I would never again get that special feeling of conducting a websearch to solve some problem and finding a hit from a person who looks like they are having exactly the same issue as me, only to find it was me posting 2 years ago and there are no useful responses.

Makes me wonder how identifiable I am by my "accent" online... I must phrase things in unusual ways. And I spend a lot of time trying to solve problems that are either unsolvable or over my head..

I always find this situation crushing, demoralizing and very funny and until lemmy has better search indexing I don't want to give it up.

Also I wrote things I think were useful too. But I don't stumble no them.
Same here, I just stopped using it. I never had the urge to burn the place down.

Not that erasing my paltry contributions over the years will probably have made that much difference but who knows if it helps someone in a future Google search that's a good thing.
It's more like the library wants to sell the books you wrote and donated for the children.
Yeah- there is so much information that is more detailed and accurate to specific situations in almost every area that would be lost to the future.

And you literally never know what weird take on a current situation, or what seemingly small detail of information about a field of knowledge might be important to people, historians, etc., in the future. So much of our knowledge is in our inherent understanding of how the world is right now, that we tend to assume that that knowledge will always be there and available, but that's not necessarily the case.

Anyway. I get deleting, or even removing maybe some of the more frivolous content if possible, ("This" "So much this" somes to mind lol) but I think it's ok to preserve that history.

No.

Nope, good riddance.

Zero regrets. So far the content has been better and people have been nicer, the experience on Lemmy app I use is very similar to the 3rd party Reddit app I was using, and the official Reddit app is so much worse than both of them that I am not at all tempted to use it.

Ngl I miss all the niche communities from reddit that actually had content. Like there's nothing for The West Wing or The Wire on the lemmybin. Last hype shit for Starfield on the largest Starfield Magazine was like 3 days ago.

Not that I really need or get that much out of that content but it's shit I like to talk about. And sure I can create the communities or post the content, but it's like yelling into an abyss right now.

That'll change as more people join, of course, it's just a part I miss.
- I've joined a ton of new discords in the past few weeks. they're keeping me together until the threadiverse takes off.

Not even a little bit and I was on Reddit since like 2011

No regerts...not even one letter.

Seriously, I deleted my posts and comments by my cake day (June 26th), and deleted my account on June 29th. Good riddance.

I deleted a 10+ year old account a couple of years ago. The accounts I deleted when the ruckus started were those I'd been using since then.

That 10 year old account a couple years ago bugged me awhile because I had the conceit that anyone at all on Reddit recognized my name or cared what I had to say. Eventually I got over that.

As a result, I felt almost no sting from wiping and deleting the younger ones. Maybe 5 minutes of feeling a little weird about it until I realized I'd given up exactly nothing.

I do feel like I recognize people here more probably because of the avatars. I see you around a lot, and I recognize Nepenthe, catch 42, and otomechan based on their avatars.

Funnily enough I always think you're Ernest for half a second before I realize I've done it again.
- Hah I could see how the avatar is similar at first glance. :-)
@be_excellent_to_each_other I follow you now :) +1 karma hhehe
- Aw thanks!

I had a ten-year-old account that had accumulated a modest amount of karma (34000?) over the years, and had no regrets editing and deleting all the posts (roughly 2700 of them).

I'd contributed in a number of niche subreddits and felt disgusted by the greed that Reddit was showing. More than anything the disgust that they would be profiting off my information was what pushed me to do the editing/deleting.

And since then, I realise I haven't really missed anything.

Caveat: I was never really bound by my karma score anyway, though, and regularly fact-checked people I knew would not listen just to "spend" my karma anyway.

I didn't delete my account, but I am never going back. I am done creating "free" content for reddit. Hope it ends up like Twitter.

Reddit is dead to me. It was fun while it lasted, but it's now in the past. Kbin is where I'll be going forward.

I still have an account (to make sure things stay deleted) but I jumped ship three weeks ago. No regrets.

Same here. Instead of deleting comments though, I overwrote them with some random nonsense kids poem. Any little thing I can do to screw up their inevitable monetization as a dataset for LLMs.

No regrets.

I haven't, this time. But I don't use it. I have been on Reddit exactly five times since the protests began and only two of those were on purpose. The others were by clicking links from here that I didn't realize went there. The two that were on purpose were related to doing a data request and checking on it.

I have deleted a long standing account before and didn't regret it. I just switched to an alt. My current account participated in some long-tail mental health support, some of my comments and posts get responded to months/years later thanking me for help. I am not so petty that I would remove content that may actual help someone.

My current account participated in some long-tail mental health support, some of my comments and posts get responded to months/years later thanking me for help. I am not so petty that I would remove content that may actual help someone.

You're a good person - thank you.

I still have an account there, though I'm not using it much and am considering my options for data takeout and deletion. It feels pretty different to me, though, honestly. I think seeing it as though "things are dying down" is short-sighted. With the mod teams wiped, BotDefense gone, and so forth, I don't think things are going to stay "back to normal" for long, even if you think they're there at the moment, which I kinda don't.

That said, I'm not at all certain the fediverse can take its place. It'll depend a lot on how many folks start to use it. It's an uphill battle.

But Reddit, well, I expect it to head downhill pretty badly.

When Apollo died, so did my account. I haven’t been on Reddit at all since, and am totally okay with it.

Why are we still talking about that manure fire?

Kinda comes with being on /m/redditmigration, no?

Deleted my 15 year account and what little posts I had. Joined kbin and lemmy since I don't know what I was doing. But it also made me think of what other social media and what else I'm using that is governed by corporate overlords. Deleted Twitter and joined Mastodon just to see what is like. I uninstalled Windows 11 and installed Linux Mint on my PC. Now looking for alternatives to Google apps that I use even though I'm on a Google Pixel phone but it's into it's 3rd year so it'll probably die sooner than later. So looking for cloud hosting for photos, spreadsheets etc between my phone and my PC to break away from Google. Anyway moving from Reddit has started a avalanche of introspection of what I'm using. Tldr: No.

Check out GrapheneOS, it might give your phone a few more years.
- Without Google wallet/pay support and it's 50/50 if banking apps work I won't be switching but I like everything else about the OS. I don't want to go back to carrying cards around with me, been too many years of just using my phone for payments. Thank you for the recommendation though.

I had an account that was over 10 years old, but didn't actually have a ton of usage; I didn't have a lot of posts that got upvoted, I think I had under 1000 karma. But I don't regret deleting it at all.

I regret that, ideologically, I don't want to ever reward the leadership there with my patronage in any way, which means there's a ton of content sitting in their archives that I don't want to access now. If I ever had to, I could, but I'd rather do anything else first. Just look what management did; they don't deserve the reward of attention, clicks, or especially additional free content generation, far as I'm concerned.

I guess they were almost right, in a very backwards, stupid way; the main value for me doesn't lie in the users, but in the content. Unfortunately, you can't screw over the users that generate that content in good faith, no matter how much you think you can sell that content for.

No.

Nope, no regrets here.

I feel sad looking back over what reddit became. I don't regret any of my actions in response. And even if I did, my actions were reddit's fault; they'd get the blame, so I'd still have nothing to regret.

I won't contribute to a website that treats the people who built it the way they did, so their choice to treat their community and app devs that way directly resulted in my actions.

I haven’t nuked my account yet and will only do so once I am certain that all my comments are permanently deleted (some were missed due to a design limitation in the way Reddit finds them). But practically speaking, I am no longer using that account, so it is functionally equivalent to having deleted it.

I have no regret so far. Deleting my trail of crumbs has assuaged my fear of doxxing (which, in all honesty, is orthogonal to the API shutdown fiasco and was worth doing selectively anyway). It has also given me back time that I would spend mindlessly doomscrolling on Reddit. I am now more deliberate in my use of social media and the Fediverse, which is an improvement in my online habits. For that I am grateful.

I didn't delete my account but did delete RIF once it stopped working. I was mostly a lurker on reddit and the few comments and posts i did make are of little to no value to the platform.

I figured wasting a few MB of space on a harddrive would be a more effective protest than doing them a favor and deleting my admittedly worthless content.

Not really, but I had already habituated myself to nuking accounts and deleting posts routinely long before now. I regret Reddit became what it is, not disconnecting from that.

I haven’t made that mistake once

No regrets. No interest in going back. The future is federated.

14 year old account with lots comment activity. Deleted all of the posts and then the account the moment I understood what was going on.

Anyway everything on Reddit had been created in about a decade and something better be recreated again even faster. The above analogy of Reddit being a library is a bit off to my ears-- Reddit is not the content you find there, Reddit is the people; the expertise, the moderation, the consideration, the passion. We can safely burn the siphons tapped into people's passions and let the energies of the people pour elsewhere.

I started routinely deleting my comments anyhow after someone creeped me out by searching through my history for ammunition to use in an argument. I just deleted the five or six recent ones I hadn’t done yet, and that was that. I’ve kept my account because it might come in handy at some point, but I’ve only been on Reddit once in the past few weeks.

still have not done it. still have not recieved my data. got to get off my ass and email complain to them and maybe look to see how to make a gdpr complaint or how long before they are in violation

I haven't deleted mine, but I no longer visit the site. I mostly nuked the content on my account a few years ago. Sure there's some stuff now, but it's nothing important. I'm just leaving it there for convenience.

That said I'm mostly moving off of corporate owned media. I put links to my new stuff on my accounts on those sites.

No ragrets at all! Not even one letter! My biggest problem is trying to figure out how to manage all of the similarly named magazines and communities.

No regrets. reddit basically made the choice for me.

Had been on reddit for 12+ years, tons of accounts, ran a few small subs. Some insane supermod decided to fuck with me across the site so I nuked all my comments, accounts and subs and I'm done with it. Not having it on mobile since the third-party apps shutdown made it easy. I'll still peruse some interesting/hobby subs but I won't participate ever again. No regrets, the place is toxic.

Yes. I've deleted several previous Reddit accounts, and ended up losing some pretty good stuff. Meanwhile, I'm not deleting the ones I currently have as I still have use for Reddit.

Not even a second. I'm glad to first got rid of Facebook several years ago. Then Twitter. And recently also Reddit. No regrets.

Ps. I also don't have Instagram, TikTok or any of those non-sense.