I’ve been on Reddit since 2012. I don’t believe I used any app other than RiF during that whole time. Currently using Power Delete Suite to wipe my account then I plan to delete. I’ve found quite a better home over here on Lemmy anyways. Wish I had known of this place sooner.
Check back occasionally to verify your comments remain deleted. While I’ve not had it happen to my main, others have reported their comments seem to return soon after doing a purge.
Shredders going back at least five years have been editing comments and replacing them with placeholder text prior to deleting, on the assumption they might only be retaining the final version before deletion.
Reddit is such a great source of information though-- especially when I’m looking for user feedback, instructions, or human opinions. It’s a shame that many posts are going to get deleted in the following weeks (especially in the tech sphere since most people quitting Reddit are going to be techies)
That’s why you should delete the comments/posts though. Because you make it less desirable to advertisers by making it less convenient to “just add Reddit” after a Google search.
I thought my deleted comments were getting restored by reddit, but it just turns out that you can’t delete comments from private subreddits. So I initially deleted everything during the 2 day blackout, then a few days later when things started opening up again, I saw a ton of comments still on my account, so I just assumed reddit had been restoring them.
I’ve been on Reddit since 2012. I don’t believe I used any app other than RiF during that whole time. Currently using Power Delete Suite to wipe my account then I plan to delete. I’ve found quite a better home over here on Lemmy anyways. Wish I had known of this place sooner.
Check back occasionally to verify your comments remain deleted. While I’ve not had it happen to my main, others have reported their comments seem to return soon after doing a purge.
Shredders going back at least five years have been editing comments and replacing them with placeholder text prior to deleting, on the assumption they might only be retaining the final version before deletion.
Reddit is such a great source of information though-- especially when I’m looking for user feedback, instructions, or human opinions. It’s a shame that many posts are going to get deleted in the following weeks (especially in the tech sphere since most people quitting Reddit are going to be techies)
That’s why you should delete the comments/posts though. Because you make it less desirable to advertisers by making it less convenient to “just add Reddit” after a Google search.
I thought my deleted comments were getting restored by reddit, but it just turns out that you can’t delete comments from private subreddits. So I initially deleted everything during the 2 day blackout, then a few days later when things started opening up again, I saw a ton of comments still on my account, so I just assumed reddit had been restoring them.
I did advertising to Lemmy and got my first ban ever. Dw it’s fine, I didn’t even do it in a very toxic way.
I just mentioned a bunch people where comming here
I’ll second the “Wish I learned about Lemmy sooner” bit. Just feels so much better.
Have a nice day, fellow reddit refugee!