• feidry@midwest.social
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    1 year ago

    Not completely normal. I deleted my account that was old enough to sign up for most websites on its own. I’m not the only one.

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      1 year ago

      Haven’t deleted either of both of my 14 yr accounts yet, but I haven’t been on Reddit since the blackout and have plans to nuke it all after I navigate new subscriptions and think it through.

      FWIW, I find the experience a refreshing re-start, just like when Digg and Slashdot fucked up and I’m already seeing shit posting, memes, and fresh content galore on Lemmy in just the last week. I doubt I’ll go back to Reddit except for some esoteric solutions that I find in searches.

    • Hudell@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 year ago

      Haven’t fully deleted mine yet, but I’m already using it a lot less. Lemmy is more than good enough for bathroom scrolling and I’ve actually gone back to reading books before bed. Just finished one yesterday.

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        1 year ago

        I deleted mine after that disastrous AMA that the head spaz put on. What a shit show.

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          1 year ago

          I’m not planning on deleting mine, I do have some good technical answers on my account that I don’t want to delete. I figure stopping participating is more important than going back and deleting it.

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            1 year ago

            This is a fair point - engagement drives their dollars. Maybe I’ll save what’s useful for me on my account as long as I can find no alternatives or don’t have time to migrate solutions to another silo. Just having not opened their site in 2 weeks already feels compellingly free.

      • Fredselfish @lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        10 years for me and not been on the weekend before the protest and have no plans to return anytime soon. But when I do it will be to gain as much that I saved as I can and then nuke my account from there. And I have 150k in karma. Doesn’t seem like much but took me a long time to earn that and I was proud of it. But when RIF goes I am gone.

        Long live Lemmy, long live the fedverse.

    • ATiredPhilosopher@lemmygrad.ml
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      Also deleted the 3 accounts I had - it’s most like a paid ad. People need to stop giving two shits about Reddit, it’s a corporation that doesn’t care about its users yet a bunch of its users, even former ones, seem to overly care about it.