OK, so download it first, then delete it.

Don’t delete your account, scramble your past comments into AI generated gibberish. It poisons the well for AI and makes the site even more unusable by humans.

There is nothing like reading one or two sentences into a comment and realizing it is garbage.

I still have mixed feelings about deleting one’s whole comment history, though i also did that when I left reddit.

Same. I also did that. Mass edits + delete. I wish there was a way we could collectively move all that history to a non-commercial platform.

it’s the right thing to do, but the amount of information lost because of greedy leadership is super sad.

Also same. I backed up all my user data for sentimental reasons, but that’s hardly enough to be of any utility on its own.

I really did feel like I was participating in a community, and was doing something positive with all my posting. I was just treating reddit like any other forum from my youth, not really thinking how ofc it would become commodified and enshittified.

I feel like such a fucking idiot sucker. Over a decade putting in time outside work, lunch breaks, toilet breaks, morning, evening, just contributing to an IPO package.

I left all my comments up. I decided it’s fine.

Most of mine was on the controversial subs, it was better if it’s gone,