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Raevyn ,
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I’m holding out on deleting mine until I know my comments and posts are staying gone. I went through PowerDeleteSuite twice and everything still came back, so we’ll see what happens.

I also don’t want to delete it because it’s closing the door on the time I spent there. Folks on Reddit helped me get through a lot of mess and sadness in my life. It feels like losing a friend.

akai OP ,
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Yeah, that happened to me too. From what I understand, there's like a 5 second cooldown when you edit/delete stuff, but PowerDeleteSuite doesn't take that into account so some stuff just gets skipped. I had to go back and manually edit a bunch of comments.

emrys ,

There is a fork that does: https://github.com/pkolyvas/PowerDeleteSuite

FinalFallacy ,
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I feel like playing No Doubt's Don't Speak on repeat. It is a weird collective mourning we're going through.

Helldiver_M ,
@Helldiver_M@kbin.social avatar

I was holding onto my account as well. That was until just a few minutes ago. I was browsing /r/all to see if there was any remaining discussion on the API shutting down. I only came across a couple of threads, all of which, to varying degrees, misrepresented what is going on. Comments making lite of the impact of 3rd party apps dying, and completely ignoring the fact that the owner of Reddit is acting with complete disrespect towards those who made the platform what it is today.

At that moment, I didn't give a shit about my account anymore. Are there bots astroturfing the comment section? Maybe. Are there users who are acting a little smug because they don't feel negatively impacted at all yet? Probably. Whatever. They can have whatever is left of the site.

I'm not going to stand for this. It feels like in life, there are so many bad things that happen that we have no control over. This is something I have 100% control over. It's so simple, just never go on Reddit again.

It was never about Reddit in the first place. It was just about hopping onto a forum and talking about games, current events, memes, comics, art, cats, etc. If /u/Spez and his ilk are going to be so disrespectful towards those who want to facilitate said forum, then I'll find another one immediately.

Raevyn ,
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It’s definitely more about the community than the actual site, that’s for sure. I haven’t been back on since Apollo dropped earlier tonight. Honestly not surprised that there are users being so crappy. They may not feel the impact now, but they will. And it will be interesting to watch the fallout from afar, and also to see how places like Kbin and Lemmy grow.

chanunnaki ,

I totally agree with you… but don’t forget that lemmy.world ≠ lemmy. Kbin (afaik) is just another lemmy instance.

rbhfd ,

Kbin is not Lemmy. It’s a different kind of software that uses ActivityPub. That’s why kbin and lemmy instances can still interact, even if they run different software. Even Mastodon users can interact with Lemmy or Kbin posts, but it’s a bit more convoluted.

akai OP ,
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Kbin is its own separate software, not a Lemmy instance

chanunnaki ,

yes, i know that now. Sorry for spreading false information.

rckclmbr ,

Yep. Reddit is basically Digg now. I’m actually excited to start new. I just hope we can get past the “we just hate reddit” phase and build a community talking about real things

dmtalon ,

How long did it take for comments to come back?

Raevyn ,
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It took about four days and every comment was back. I just checked this morning to see if anything has returned from when I cleared last night, and the more recent comments are gone, but I still have comments from last year that I'm working on now. My account is almost 10 years old, so I have a lot of activity to delete before deleting my account. Going to try the link from emrys a little ways up and see what happens there.

dmtalon ,

Oh, wow that long… Guess I didn’t wait long enough to be sure. However 2 days in and I don’t see comments that I saved a permalink to. (I did delete my account yesterday)

Raevyn ,
@Raevyn@kbin.social avatar

Yeah, I had noticed a few the next day and just manually edited and deleted them. I decided to wait a couple more days to see if anymore would come back and they all did.

I went through the link for PowerDeleteSuite that was posted a few comments up and that seemed to have done the trick. I deleted mine last night. Felt like closing a chapter.

dmtalon ,

I used the time delayed PDS and mine seem to still be gone…

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