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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by myxi@feddit.nl to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

I would like to know if there is an "official" way to set an account as disabled. For now, I am plan on posting this on Asklemmy, changing my password to some random string that I won't remember, and then logging out. If I'd like to come back later, there's a chance of my account being revived through the "forgot password" process.

I am leaving Lemmy for good. I have spent a few months here, and the first few months were nice and positive. But now it feels much more Reddit-like. Most active communication here is happening at posts that I find negative. All this negative stuff is detoriating my mental health. I'd instead prefer to stay happy and remain ignorant until I personally experience the issues being raised here. 

Of course, a lot of people will disagree with this approach, and they are likely already coming up with comments to post on this thread that I'd find rude and thus negative. But I've seriously had enough of it.

I have a heavily filtered Reddit with a home page filled with people like me. The communities they are part of either don't exist on Lemmy or are not sufficiently active. I will be active with these people until the old Reddit front-end reaches EoL. Please prefer to answer the first paragraph over the rest.

PS: please don't judge me by my comments on my profile. I am a teenager and my personality is still maturing. I cringe at most things I do the next day after doing them.

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[-] stoy@lemmy.zip -3 points 7 months ago

It is not unresonable to want to do that, but it stupid to believe that all Lemmy instances will comply with deleteion requests

[-] BolexForSoup@kbin.social 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I don’t think they assumed that would be the case, in fact, I don’t think they made any particular assumptions here. Hence why they asked the question: “is it possible?” It’s also probably beneath you to attack someone’s intellect like that just for asking a question on a community dedicated to asking questions.

Most websites have some sort of account deletion/disable feature with varying degrees of thoroughness. You’re acting like this person is asking for the impossible or unreasonable, and I don’t really know why.

[-] stoy@lemmy.zip 5 points 7 months ago

That's fair, I can see how I was too harsh here, sorry OP!

[-] BolexForSoup@kbin.social 5 points 7 months ago

I appreciate your hearing me out. I could probably follow your example more often on that front haha

[-] stoy@lemmy.zip 5 points 7 months ago

I try to be resonable and kind when I feel the argument against me is fair.

I can and have absolutely been an ass when the situation is different though, but for the most part I am just quite mellow (:

[-] BolexForSoup@kbin.social 2 points 7 months ago

It is kind of wild how even with how much experience many of us have online and on forums, with all that we know about the social behaviors it brings out, we can still get kind of nasty anyway.

[-] stoy@lemmy.zip 2 points 7 months ago

That's the anonymity for you, for god and bad

this post was submitted on 18 Apr 2024
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