My first account was 14 years ago. Every year or so, I switch to a new account. I nuked every single account I had: nuked the comments, nuked the submissions, just over-wrote then deleted everything. I privated the tiny handful of small communities I modded, turned over the keys in a couple of them, and de-modded myself. I unsubscribed from every single subreddit I was part of.
I found some worthy comments and spent all the reddit coins I’d accumulated from when other people gave me gold. I went through every saved comment and saved it (in context) offline. I PM’d a handful of people my email address, wrapped up a couple of "oh, I’ll get that to you later"s, and … just walked away.
14 years, 17 accounts. My “smallest” account had about 140k karma; my largest over 440k. Probably a couple million between all of them.
I’m done with reddit, I’m gone. I’m not going to fool myself that I’ll be missed there but, given my accumulated karma, I think the loss of some of my contributions (I mostly hung out in news and science subs) will make the site a little less useful to the people still there. Enshittification, indeed.
My first account was 14 years ago. Every year or so, I switch to a new account. I nuked every single account I had: nuked the comments, nuked the submissions, just over-wrote then deleted everything. I privated the tiny handful of small communities I modded, turned over the keys in a couple of them, and de-modded myself. I unsubscribed from every single subreddit I was part of.
I found some worthy comments and spent all the reddit coins I’d accumulated from when other people gave me gold. I went through every saved comment and saved it (in context) offline. I PM’d a handful of people my email address, wrapped up a couple of "oh, I’ll get that to you later"s, and … just walked away.
14 years, 17 accounts. My “smallest” account had about 140k karma; my largest over 440k. Probably a couple million between all of them.
I’m done with reddit, I’m gone. I’m not going to fool myself that I’ll be missed there but, given my accumulated karma, I think the loss of some of my contributions (I mostly hung out in news and science subs) will make the site a little less useful to the people still there. Enshittification, indeed.
Obligatory fuck spez inserted.
Every comment and submission deleted is just a tiny bit of value taken away from the site. I did my part, too!
It’s why I unsubbed everywhere as well, I don’t want my zombie accounts used to inflate reddit’s statistics.