good riddance

  • gkd@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Honestly, even if Lemmy doesn’t grow to be even 1% of the size of Reddit, I think I could seriously enjoy the smaller-community vibe way more. Reddit was starting to get ridiculously flooded with trash content and bots.

    • tomdenhagen2@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      I don’t know, it felt kind of mixed to me. I definitely had some feeling of mourning as I was deleting 11 1/2 years of my personal content. The same feeling you might have throwing out childhood toys, or more accurately like old diaries. Nevertheless, I felt strongly that it was the right thing to do to delete all my comments. They’re backup up but it’s all in JSON so I don’t think I’ll revisit it again.

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    1 year ago

    I deleted mine after 3 years. First i was skeptical if i was doing the right thing, but now i am happy i did it.

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    1 year ago

    Backed up and deleted all your posts and comments? Is there some sort-of simple way to do that, for people who’re not programmers?

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    1 year ago

    Finished deleting my posts and comments yesterday, once I’ve gone through my saved stuff and backed up anything I want to keep, my account is gone. I might even do a GDPR request etc just to be totally sure.

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    1 year ago

    I always found that smaller communities do better in the long term. All of the bigger communities I was a part of over the years are now dead or unrecognizable. All the smaller communities are still going strong, even 15 years later.