Deleted my reddit today
May. 5th, 2026 03:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jlumenI'm calling this a win.
Part of the reason why I 'lose' allot of time during the day is wasting away on discussion and arguments on reddit. Yes, I recognize that's a waste of time. I think, it's part of working from home and spending so much time as the only adult in my life. Sometimes I do miss those chats and things.
I've wanted to delete my account for awhile but I kept running into roadblocks and so my ADHD said 'oh we can put it off'.
I try not to be too obvious about my race on reddit because I've had racist attacks and stereotypes before, but I got a little tired of people arguing with me about what they heard from Black and Asian people. Especially when I would clearly say, from my perspective or my experience. I'm not the local Blasian rep. I can only speak to what I know.
And I was getting annoyed at the time I wasted saying how much I despise AI infiltrating my yarn hobbies. So today, I stuck it out and got it done!
It wasn't easy. I had to:
- disconnect my google account
- use the forgot password feature to set a password
- go to the old reddit site under deactivate, in a new browser (I tried clearing my cache and it just wouldn't stick)
- my username I promise you it changed slightly with an extra underscore, so had to figure that out.
- finally delete my account!
Part of the reason why I 'lose' allot of time during the day is wasting away on discussion and arguments on reddit. Yes, I recognize that's a waste of time. I think, it's part of working from home and spending so much time as the only adult in my life. Sometimes I do miss those chats and things.
I've wanted to delete my account for awhile but I kept running into roadblocks and so my ADHD said 'oh we can put it off'.
I try not to be too obvious about my race on reddit because I've had racist attacks and stereotypes before, but I got a little tired of people arguing with me about what they heard from Black and Asian people. Especially when I would clearly say, from my perspective or my experience. I'm not the local Blasian rep. I can only speak to what I know.
And I was getting annoyed at the time I wasted saying how much I despise AI infiltrating my yarn hobbies. So today, I stuck it out and got it done!
It wasn't easy. I had to:
- disconnect my google account
- use the forgot password feature to set a password
- go to the old reddit site under deactivate, in a new browser (I tried clearing my cache and it just wouldn't stick)
- my username I promise you it changed slightly with an extra underscore, so had to figure that out.
- finally delete my account!
