I learned in SQL class that you never ever hard delete data when there is any alternative. On Facebook and Twitter you get a whole month to change your mind before your account can't be recovered.

I don’t know how anyone used Reddit without unsubscribing from the default subs. There was just so much stupid stuff…

(I see the irony of saying this in shitposts… but I’ll probably unsubscribe from here too when it gets bigger)

When I was younger, I had so much more free time to argue with detail-oriented people who would quote my whole post but with interruptions to nitpick each sentence.

Now I'm like "well now they're just deliberately not getting it."

Like tears in rain...

I’ve been searching on Google for info that I mostly find on Reddit. I’ve come across several deleted posts and I’m like man I need that piece of info :(. But I get it because I deleted my long-time account too. Hopefully we’ll soon build Lemmy to become a helpful source.

Nearly 9 years for me. Thousands of comments and links. Nuked the lot. Mixed feelings but to hell with spez.

Nuked mine on the 30th when Apollo went down. Ten years, secret Santa, snack exchanges, all kinds of discussions from people all over the world. All burned because of one rich cunt who just has to be richer.

Bittersweet to leave but this feels like a new beginning, chance to find new communities that aren’t sponsored or bot driven

They deleted their account without deleting the comment. It has always been this way in my experience.

This is illegal, at least under the GDPR, so Reddit could be sued about that.

Disclaimer: I'm no lawyer, so this is no legal advice and I could be wrong.

That's about as good a reason for deleting an account as I've ever seen.

This is pretty much why I'm in favor of worker coops or any other form of democratizing the work place. All it takes is a greedy CEO or a shareholder board wanting increasing profits to ruin a good thing. If the workers themselves are the ones making those decisions, then you need to convince the majority of the company to ruin a good thing. Somehow I doubt the people doing the actual work at Reddit would've decided to fuck the site like that.

Thanks. Old memes are better anyway.

Depends on what area of IT you’re in as to whether or not this is even relevant, but have you seen the https://programming.dev/ Lemmy instance?

Maybe it's accelerating? I just learned of this migration and immediately made an account. I hated the old reddit mods for stymying conversation by removing everything that didn't fit that individuals narrative. I was actually pro API changes because it pissed off reddit mods. Do you want Lemmy to be like reddit was in terms of moderation? I don't want a cesspool like twitter; I do want people to be less remove/ban heavy.

I'll migrate here permanently if I can get a version of reddit where the idiots who only care about jokes and upvotes stay over there.

If you are European GDPR applies to you and you are probably in a good position to sue if they don't delete your data.

190k karma, 0 posts, 0 comments.

Changed every 2,8k comments to "Fuck u/spez" before deleting it. Just in case they get restored.

Used PowerDeleteSuite if anyone is wondering.

I think that doesn't really work like that here, since we don't have fake dopamine flakes (a.k.a karma).