Back when the big flock from Reddit to Lemmy took place, I used this account to post this Unpopular Opinion:
Erasing your Reddit history is an asshole move, and does not really help “the cause”
If you check the profiles of the most ardent anti-Reddit voices from that thread, you would notice that most of them disappeared from Lemmy shortly after that, or a few months later at best.
Where did they go? Back to Reddit of course.
Lessons learned? Beware that the loudest most uncompromising voices regarding a cause when enthusiasm for it is at its peak, are often the ones who are the least committed to it.
Do note that neither the reaction back then, nor this retrospect came as a surprise to me.
It was always a bit of a pipe dream to think we could draw enough users to have a notable impact, because the majority of people just don’t care. Plain and simple. Fine with me, they can have their little racist narwhal, and I’ll be here reading bitter rants for amusement.
I agree lightly on not deleting posts, but probably because that account holds 10+ years of my life. I also have a post that people follow up with me on once or twice a year because it is in relation to a difficult to get book relating to severe depression. A big part of me feels wrong taking a resource away from vulnerable people looking for help.
I still check specialized subreddits when I need specific information, and I check for any messages to see if someone needs a hand. That said, I nearly completely lessened my contribution to a company I no longer respect, that’s a good enough for me.
I had a near 800k karma account, I overwrote every post with gibberish before deleting it.
It was my account and my effort went into it. I’m not telling anyone else what to do, but I thought it would be hilarious to leave all those information gaps.
Just fyi some auto deletion programms allow you to keep certain posts or comments