I removed myself as a moderator and left Reddit.

Many are waiting for their data takeout requests to complete before doing the same. And to follow up with GDPR requests/GDPR deletion requests.

All to improve their quarter numbers pre-IPO.

Luckily GDPR deletion requests don't care about how they are implemented. And failures to comply en masse tends to get really expensive.

That has already happened in the last years.

My answer was stopping modding, stopping posting and now a data takeout and GDPR deletion request (and a complaint because they will fail to honor it) on the way out. I would have done it years ago if there was a place to migrate to.

My account is 16+ year old and has 300 k combined karma. I will be sure to contact my data protection officer to complain. Reddit needs an audit to document they wipe the db properly, and the data is gone from backups. Not just my data, anything they got on me.

EU's GDPR officers will be very interested in Reddit's documented inability to delete EU Reddit users' personal data.

Wait until Reddit is hit with massive fines for failing to comply with all the GDPR deletion requests.

Time to get serious about running my own instance. I now have to wonder what kind of political opinion I might voice which could make the instance operators liable. This is not tolerable long-term.

Too late for that. Technology has been redefined to mean whatever Si valley IT tech bros are up to.

I recommend to unsub and build topical communities.

Slashdot, Orkut and Digg haven't become irrelevant overnight. However, in the retrospect we should be able to see that 1st July 2023 became Reddit's Digg moment. Perhaps not as clear and fast, but the rate of decline now accelerates. Check back there yearly, and it should have become obvious.

Please do not assume to know every user's needs.

It is illegal under the EU law.

Evidence for your claims, please.

If you're not going to immediately defederate from Meta instances the Fediverse baby will be strangled in the crib.

Lemmy now has enough early adopters to be sustainable. And that's the only thing that matters. As to Reddit, my account there is 17+ years old but I was there since the beginning. The early years were amazing but in the last half decade or so it was a visibly dying platform. We should be thankful that its current leadership has now put it out of its misery.

The EU law disagrees with what the CEO thinks, and that's what matters.

Level fines and collect them.

I am thankful for Reddit's series of mistakes, since the latest one has definitely helped Fediverse reach critical mass. And that is all that matters, not the fate of some semidead platform.

You are probably on Jerboa. Either downgrade or use the web UI interim.