I had two 15 year old accounts… nuked both of them. Reddit has been dogshit for the last 8 years anyway and has just been getting progressively worse year after year. It has very little of what initially drew me to it 15 years ago, and I’ve just been going there out of habit the last few years.
Deleting it felt freeing, honestly wish I had done so sooner.
But you don’t need consent to record someone in public. If you want to have a private conversation, then have a private conversation. Having a conversation in public and expecting it to remain private is over entitlement in my opinion. You have absolutely no expectation to privacy in a public space, nor should you.