Do the advantages of deleting one’s entire Reddit history outweigh the disadvantages?

I have previously nuked my first Reddit account because it felt satisfactory to be completely detached from a platform one considers unethical/bad. Though, I have garnered quite some history on a second account—because Duty Calls*, of course—and I’m considering doing the same.

However, I don’t want to do it impulsively. I think I might be blind to some disadvantages. What do you think?

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  • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 months ago

    You won’t believe how often I search for a problem only to find 50 "Thank you"s for a deleted comment.

    That just means it’s working. It causes people to search info elsewhere

    • NessD@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      That means the info is gone and nowhere to be found anymore. Yeah, post it somewhere else from now on, but don’t delete your old stuff.

      • krashmo@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        reddit is not the entire internet. Your inability to find info without using Google to search reddit posts says more about your habits than it does the state of the internet.

        • PonyOfWar@pawb.social
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          3 months ago

          Reddit not being the entire internet doesn’t mean that every bit of information on reddit is also available elsewhere.