It’s crazy isn’t it? Six months in and Mastodon still hasn’t clicked for me, but six days here and I know I’m not going back to Reddit.

I wouldn't delete your account (in case Reddit tries to replace the deleted comments as they have been doing). But I would unsubscribe from every subreddit.

Additionally, if you have any very useful comments/posts, repost them to Lemmy and then edit them to leave some information that will redirect users to your posts in Lemmy. That way good information isn't lost and you'll help to slowly drive users towards Lemmy over time.

this makes my little archivist heart sad tbh. fuck spez.

I've already started moving over to lemmy but I'm also seeing some weird stuff on my Reddit account. I've had more 'Followers' sign on to my account in the last 2 weeks than I've seen in the last 3-4 years. I don't believe these are real followers. What would be the reason for this? Is Reddit playing some sort of statistics game with long-time Reddit accounts?

You might want to hold off on the deletion part... After the comments about "reddit is restoring posts", I logged back in and saw my entire history had been restored after 24 hours. That includes messages I deleted years ago.

So, went through and re-ran power delete suite again. Next day, there were a few back.

Going the lather-rinse-repeat route with wiping them. I figure if they want to burn CPU cycles recovering my stuff, I can burn their CPU cycles deleting it again. At some point I'll see about sending them a support request to remove all of my data if it keeps occurring.

Thinking about doing the same to my acc with 250k+ karma.

o7

I had two accounts, one 8 years old and one 4 years old, with a combined karma of about 120k. Deleted them both earlier.

Should hold off on deleted your account for the time being. Many subs are polling users on which direction to take and I've been messaging mods with short comments to move to lemmy.

10 years and 180,000 karma. I nuked all of my comments and all but a couple of my posts.

However, I have seen that some of my comments are still there on posts despite not showing up in my comment history.

me:

• 14y+ account,
• 14k comment karma,
• 0 comments,
• 0 posts

not deleting my account, because i want to verify that my account stays empty.

see /r/beatniak

I feel the fresh air of a new internet breeding <3

well done. come over to lemmy and help pls. i have thousands of reddit accounts. all shall be deleted. The Ancient Ones shall rise again!!!! WOLOLOLOLOLLOLLLO!!!!!!

Cool, I got rid of all 14 of mine.

The mass exodus of Twitter and Reddit is like the burning of Alexandria, digital.

How many tutorials or sourced synopsis of events or other long form written media created by volunteers was lost to all of this? Its insanity.

Same, 15+ years, although I don't yet have a plan to delete my account. There may arise a need to leverage it in some other protestful way.

better do it earlier, if you're late PowerDeleteSuite might not work

Unsubscribed from everthing last night, went to check today and i have 2 subs.

funny stuff

I probably wouldn‘t remove the account itself
Otherwise you can‘t remove them again when they get restored by the admins

Fyi accounts like yours can fetch above $200 on some sites. Sure they'll be used to advertise and spam but is that really your problem now?