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My spice tolerance definitely increased after living in Sichuan Province for 6 months.

Interesting. I must just not have had that much content then. I went through all the tabs on my profile, and all of them showed ‘no content’ after running PDS.

Nice! I also deleted mine yesterday after wiping out my comments and posts.

I used this tool to comment over all my old posts with a message about the protest, and then go through and delete everything. The export part was kind of janky, since it just spat out a weirdly formatted CSV file, but it did what I needed it to.

After it was done, I deleted my account! :D

Yeah, I’m on the lemmy.world instance, but I was planning on doing something like that. I’ve heard that some bots have been going around deleting posts that mention Lemmy / the Fediverse though, so I guess we’ll see how it goes. :)

I plan on exporting all of my data on Reddit with a tool after the protest is over, and then reposting the more interesting posts to the appropriate communities here on Lemmy.

After backing everything up, then I plan on overwriting my comments and posts with a message, and then closing my account entirely.

I do not cross picket lines. Later this week, once the protest is officially over, I plan on going on Reddit, backing up my data using the PowerDeleteSuite another user posted about, and then overwriting and deleting my comments and posts with a message about the protest, before closing my account entirely.

Lemmy has already grown a nice community of people, and I’ll be glad to contribute and watch it grow over time!

I really miss swiping on a post to be able to hide it. It seems like whenever I refresh my feed on Lemmy, I am seeing the same posts over and over again.

Yeah, I searched for fountain pens, selected to search all instances, and found it. The community should be /c/fountainpens

I had been looking at Lemmy since Christian Selig made his first post about API changes, but I didn’t actually create an account until the blackouts started.

It was a little confusing at first because of how signing up and community discovery works, but once I got that down, it has been a breeze, and the communities are super nice! I’m here to stay.

I work in IT, and I don’t have any ‘smart’ things at home. I don’t want to come home and troubleshoot more dumb junk.

I don’t even have a smart watch. My watch tells the time, has a timer, etc and that’s all I need.

I also noticed that the entire site seems to be down. I tried to go on there to scrub my posts and back up some stuff, and it wouldn’t even load my login.

I was watching the counter yesterday as various subreddits went dark, and I started watching when it hit 1200, and woke up this morning with it being over 6000.

There was an initial hurdle to understanding how instances work together / how to search between them, but now that I have that figured out, it’s a lot easier. Most of the communities that I actively interacted with already have similar communities here on Lemmy. r/FountainPens was a big one for me.

I honestly just miss Apollo, since the layout and customization was amazing. I’d also look forward to seeing Slide being ported / forked for the Fediverse, since it’s free and open source.

Being able to customize swipe actions and quickly sort through content, as well as hiding content that I’ve already seen (so it doesn’t show up in my feed every time I refresh), were my favorite features by far.

They’re about 1/5 of the way through the subreddits that said they would go dark. It’s crazy watching all of them blink out in real time.