cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1277945

When the whole Reddit fiasco started happening, I saw a lot of people wiping and deleting their Reddit accounts and moving elsewhere, like here on Lemmy.

Now that it’s starting to die down a little bit, does anyone regret doing that? Or are you glad that you took that step?

  • @[email protected]English
    6•1 year ago

    I tried to nuke it too… turns out reddit has been ignoring delete and edit requests. I think they are rate capping the requests.

    After running powerdeletesuite multiple times with all kinds of settings, I could still find comments of mine not deleted.

    I also requested a GDPR set of account information. ALL of my deleted/edited comments are still there.

    • Go-On-A-Steam-TrainEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      Oh damn! I there were about 50 stubborn ones that powerdelete couldn’t scrub, so I did those manually, but… I think I’ll do the same, a fresh gdpr dataset after a few weeks would be interesting…

      :) Thanks for the heads up, they’ve become such a weird company, or maybe always were?