When the whole Reddit fiasco started happening, I saw a lot of people wiping and deleting their Reddit accounts and moving elsewhere, like here on Lemmy.

Now that it’s starting to die down a little bit, does anyone regret doing that? Or are you glad that you took that step?

  • GeenVliegtuig@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    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.

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      1 year ago

      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.

    • blkwolf@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      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.

    • quirzle@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      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.