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Comment by lobsterthief | Hacker News Reader

Same. Redditor for 15 years and the API thing was the last straw.

I didn’t post about not engaging with or using the platform anymore. Nor did I delete my account, since it still holds some value to me. But I slinked away into the darkness and now HN is my social media tool.

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Delete early, delete often. Never keep an old Reddit account around. I torch mine and build anew every year just out of principle.

Same! Except I've basically stopped using reddit. It used to be that if I got a "happy cake day" then I knew nuking the account was overdue.

I didn’t have a schedule, but probably had 5 or 6 accounts over the years… purging, deleting, and a few weeks later rejoining. The last time I deleted everything was before the API changes, and it was the last straw. I haven’t attempted to create a new account and don’t browse at all. I used to spend hours per day there. Now the only time I end up there is if a search engine directs me there for an answer to a specific question I have.

For me it's been every six months. I've even given some creds for burned accounts to the void for the heck of it.

That said, I think you could easily correlate my hn activity with my reddit usage (inverse proportionality). Loving it tbh, higher quality content overall and better than slashdot ever was

I honestly have given up in this battle.

I'm curious, what do you think deleting accounts and starting new is going to do?

They'll just link it all together another way.

they can.

you can’t.

15y account here too - also quit. Tried lemmy for a while and didn't like it. At least it helped me kick the reddit habit. Don't even go there anymore

https://old.reddit.com/u/speff

Same here on everything you mentioned

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