I took part in the Reddit blackout a month ago, and accessed Reddit through Apollo. After the blackout I looked at Reddit a handful of times and then let my association with Reddit die with Apollo.
I haven’t been there since, but now I feel as though I should have deleted my account of 7 years, that way everything I ever contributed will be gone.
However, to accomplish this as you all know I should delete all my posts first and edit all comments. I was wondering what people used to do this. I want everything to read “Edit: moved to Lemmy”.
I’m sure others migrating here have the same question. Thanks.
I’m conflicted about this. Given how much information is locked into Reddit communities, if everyone purged their accounts we’d lose an immense amount of useful knowledge. On the other hand, that is exactly how to hit Reddit where it hurts.
I look at it this way… I’d rather the information start being posted here or somewhere besides Reddit, and eventually that place will be more relevant.
Reddit is not essential.
But… is it posted here? This intentional degradation/rot feels like the burning of Alexandria.
If one has a history of only making comments that they don’t consider to have value then, maybe.
I see that those people will eventually move to another platform and it will be there.
Yeah, it’s surely a loss in the short term. Just makes me sick to think about Huffman getting rich off the content so many others created and moderated. Reddit hasn’t even done a very good job creating a good platform. The just bought out Alien Blue and have made that shittier ever since. Same with old Reddit, it was so good because it was simple yet effective, and they’ve slowly been destroying that for some time.
Monetizing ruined a great thing and they shouldn’t benefit from that.
THEY ruined Reddit and a good thing. Had they not done that, all the content and users would be there. They’d still be making money. They just want more and have been compromising the product on their end and have been held up
copied from elsewhere:
To do a full scrub of everything you’ve ever posted:
- Request your GDPR data package here: https://www.reddit.com/settings/data-request
- Wait for it to arrive
- Use shreddit to fully delete everything: https://github.com/andrewbanchich/shreddit
This will take a long time if you’ve posted and commented a lot. This works better than PowerDeleteSuite in my experience, as PDS missed a lot of stuff that was older than a certain point.
There is a way to make it not delete your comments and change what the edited message is, check the readme in the github link.
Does shreddit still work now that the APIs are turned off? I’d’ve thought the mass-deletion apps would be the first thing they turned the spigot off for.
I purged all my contributions and rewrote my comments to something along the line of „see you at Lemmy“ (which got me some bans) and finally pulled the plug. I started social media with the Usenet. It is only zeros and ones and can be destroyed by tapping the wrong button. 🤷♂️
Lol my favorite was getting a passive aggressive automod message from a subreddit while i was editing/deleting everything using a program.
It went sorta like “oh it looks like you are editing your comment in protest of reddit…let us delete your comment for you then”
I just fucking laughed at it. Somebody actually took the time to go through the automod code to write an angry message for people editing their old comments.
This is the one I used to purge like a third of my post history so far: https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite
Seems to be working well.
Be careful not to just delete your account and your comments but to make your comments unusable through editing them. That way, there is nothing useful in there should admins decide to restore your comments against your will.
It’s not just a conspiracy theory that they have restored deleted comments.
I deleted all of my comments twice because they were restored after the “blackout” a few weeks ago, even though they were deleted well before that outage started.
I am in this pickle and idk what to do. I purged all my content and requested the data under gdpr. Finally I got my data and what do ya know? Theres a whole section of my (undeleted???) comments, with additional info like date, which subreddit etc. Before I purged my comments I edited them saying “fuck spez” lol and the list I got from Reddit was mixed edited and unedited. How is that even possible?When I log in, my page is empty, as if everything is actually deleted. What to do now?
Really? I used PowerDeleteSuite myself, but I did it a few days before they locked up the API. My understanding was that PowerDeleteSuit needed API access to work.
I had read the same thing, but it did work for me a couple of days ago. YMMV obviously.
I was planning on deleting the rest soon; I can post an update if you’re interested.
Yeah, please let me know how that goes. I’m curious.
Are you a moderator for any subreddits? I’ve heard that API access is still a thing if you’re a mod, so maybe that’s why?
Also another note: as an old Apollo user I love the Memmy app for Lemmy. Very similar. Just a heads up for anyone in the same boat not aware of Memmy.
