I just deleted my reddit account, and it's long overdue.
I should’ve deleted my account when I switched to lemm.ee to begin with. I’m glad it’s over and I hope you’re all enjoying this site more! I feel relief. Wanted to see how others are adapting to being on lemm.ee instead of reddit?
Yeah, for me it was just on step too far. I was trying to ask questions on a board about a niche topic for my book and I was deleted. I messaged the mods and they told I was leeching off of them for free buzz and I wouldn’t get approved. Meanwhile I posted on another board about the same topic and everyone was super friendly and was really excited a normie was asking questions. I realized that over my time on reddit, I’ve developed this massive anxiety about posting. Most of these subreddits I frequented have hundreds of rules, and dozens of sub rules under each.
So I’d inevitably get deleted and harassed by the mods because of things like, having the tags on the wrong side of the title, posting more than 3 times in a week, including the three dots thing (…) somewhere in my post, or my favorite, referring to the users as ‘the hive mind’. That last one got me banned from several subs by this power mod. It’s gotten to the point where I’ve spent all night trying to get approved to no avail (I’m very persistent when I need information). Just to when I finally arrange all of the words to be in the right order for the tyrants to approve me. Just to get downvoted into oblivion and people spamming me with all manners of insults and treating me like an idiot. Fuck spez and fuck reddit.
Phew! Sorry, didn’t mean to dump that on you. Like I said, today was the last straw for me. Anxiety is dropping, finally.
Had a very similar experience. I’ve frequently found that kind of problem is a direct result of the community simply growing ‘too large’. The only way to moderate is hit everyone even slightly suspected of being out of line with a brick.
Back in ye olden days of forums and boards, even flagrant transgression of rules were typically forgiven and you were dealt with like a human because moderators had time and care for the community and people.
Good for you - let it out. I didn’t have anything specific happen to me. Over the last decade or so, I have become less enamored with social media. To a point where I one by one shed them all (or never signed up, as is the case with Twitter). Reddit was the last to go.
But yeah, I felt better after a week away. And even better after two weeks. I felt weird losing my “history” but looking back that was just my vanity. As if I contributed something of great meaning. Now that it’s all gone I couldn’t be happier.
It’s really easy to adapt, I lurk here and world, finally got to making an account to post stuff to help growth. Heres the instance thing I found this one through. join-lemmy.org/instances
its old school. no ads. mainly pictures in feed, no videos, sometimes a gif here and there. communities are still getting established, so there isnt so much specific content out there, very general stuff. overall a refreshing experience that hopefully will continue to improve
I just abandoned my Reddit account. Now it serves as a tombstone for what Reddit once was, for all to see. It had activity almost every day for a decade, and then it just suddenly stops, with one last post saying that in light of the API disaster, I’ve moved to Lemmy and Mastodon.
If an instance decides to show ads, I’ll just block that instance. If it’s mine, I’ll move to a different instance. If the Lemmy devs decide to add ads, I’ll just switch to kbin. I highly doubt most instances will adopt ads though.
Some people reported that their accounts magically showed up again undeleted after a week or so. No confirmation, just saw a post some time after the blackout started. So beware to check after some time.
This is the only reason I’ve kept my accounts up. I have a script that undeletes any comments that resurface, and a cron job that runs that script at regular intervals. I don’t know if any comments remain. Reddit says there are none remaining, but I don’t trust them. However, I can’t find any of my comments (same username here as in Reddit) out there through a web search so, I guess it works?
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