I’d been using Reddit for 6 years; thousands of hours. All gone, in a quick(ish) running of a script. And once it’s gone, it’s gone. Link rot is gonna be so much bigger soon. And everything that represents a mark on the platform from me will be gone.

I remember spending time on basically every interest I’ve had on there. I remember the memes, the political discussions, the anticipations of football transfers, the stunning source-gathering work on the Ukraine war, the shitposts, the communities willing to help me on the most stupid of questions. The hours spent defending random pixels on a canvas modified by other communities with friends, the awestruck silence of the Snap both in movie form and Reddit form. The support for me as a person when I needed it the most and real life couldn’t, wouldn’t, didn’t give to me.

And in a few minutes, that’ll all be gone. It’s already going away as I type this. Almost feels like a microcosm of my own mortality. Maybe I’m being overly sentimental, but it hurts. Anyone else feel the same?

  • Buck Fucket@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I’m a pack rat IRL. It unfortunately flows over into my digital life, me wanting to keep every file, bookmark, etc even it I haven’t visited/viewed it in years. Knowing this I quickly hit the process button on power delete suite and didn’t look back. I knew I’d want to keep stuff and go down a needless rabbit hole if I had peeked even at one page XD. Does feel good to go against my pack rat ways for once though!

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      I haven’t looked at it either. I’ll look once the backup is ready when PDS is done running. I hate link rot with a burning passion, but…

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        Yeah, I did a data request and actually rehosted my content via Github instead. I edited my comments to now point users to how they can find (and navigate) that instead.