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Does anyone regret deleting their Reddit account?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1277945

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?

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  • Haven't deleted mine, but haven't been back there either. If I deleted it, I wouldn't miss it. Though at some point I image the account will expire due to inactivity.

  • Do I regret leaving a toxic relationship? No, and neither does my mental health.

  • Nope. The content and community on the fediverse is so much better, and has improved immensely in the last couple weeks. It's almost like the Eternal September never happened.

  • I regret deletng it a bit too early but I don't regret the deleting itself.

    Even tho I spent a week manually deleting comments and posts and then also used a program that allegedly deletes everything on an account, I am still able to google a couple of my older comments. They're no longer attributed to me (it says [deleted] as the name) but the content itself is still visible to anyone ... and I wanted to leave nothing of value on that site. But since the account is deleted now, can no longer manually nuke the leftover comments, which irks me a bit.

    I have to admit, I did feel a bit nostalgic at one point after leaving, but just looking at the "front page" of my ex-main-sub for half a minute fixed that pretty quickly. I've legit never seen so many lazy shitposts in that sub at once, and everything that wasn't a lazy shitpost was a post complaining about said shitposts, and the only two posts that were neither a shitpost nor a cmplaint, were super obvious Karma farming bots stealing content from the "top of all time" section. Total dumpster fire.

    Long story short, I like it better here.

  • After I was sent a message threatening to reopen my sub or I would be replaced, I rage overwrote all my comments and posts then deleted my account.

    I regretted it for 2 days, mostly because cutting myself off of Reddit after 7 years was quite a shock, but afterwards I was glad I did.

  • I don't regret it. I deleted my account and ensured all my posts were deleted on June the 11th and haven't looked back since.

    Why keep an account on a site that has basically killed majority of 3rd party apps? And for those that survived, why would I pay for them when they are essentially neutered? Meaning I cannot access NSFW content.

    I rather be over here on Lemmy and use Liftoff.

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