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?
12 years here; started erasing two weeks ago and just keep checking to see if anything has been recovered. So far it’s just been the odd comment here and there that’s resurfaced and then swiftly deleted. A lot of technical know how and solutions wiped as I used to frequent subs on Microsoft technologies. Feels for people who will experience issues whose solutions have now been wiped, but there was no way in hell that I was going to allow Reddit to make click revenue from the posts and comments that I submitted. Hopefully with time those subs will migrate to here and we start building a thriving community.
The switch to lemmy was easy; I feel this is much more of a an accepting place. I spend more time on here than I did on Reddit as am finding interest in communities that I previously would not have visited on Reddit. (I joined several weeks ago but on a different instance and switched to lemmy.world as it had a better fit)
I’m also feeling more quality over quantity, as in the earlier days of Reddit. Ditto on broadening of interests, and more scrolling.
Perhaps that’s not all a good thing, but I’m rolling with it.