good riddance
Deleted mine yesterday after 12 1/2 years. Felt pretty good actually.
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.
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.
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.
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?
I think there is a way to do it, but redditors have been encountering problems accessing the feature necessary for this kind of deletion.
Use https://codepen.io/j0be/full/WMBWOW/ you can backup your stuff, modify your stuff before deleting and regular delete as well.
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.
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.
That knowledge is with the users who propagated it and they can do it again
