As a PSA, remember that the API changes don’t only impact third party apps & accessibility tools, but also your ability to bulk delete or modify your Reddit history. If you intend to delete or modify your previous Reddit posts, be sure to run a tool like Power Delete Suite today before the shut down.
Also remember that as Subreddits went from private to public, there may have been posts and comments you attempted to delete but couldn’t until they went public again. So if you ran these tools, you might want to run it again to make sure you got everything.
@iwidji I’ll simply submit a GDPR delete request as soon as they fulfill the data export request. I do not trust the messages will be deleted otherwise.
Posts are never deleted. They’re soft deleted, meaning the post is flagged as “deleted” but all content remains. It’s just hidden.
This is why you’ll see people overriding the content of the post before doing a delete. While we can’t get rid of the post entirely, you can instead replace it with garbage, or something else, then delete it, rendering the data useless to Reddit.
Could go a step further, use a script to override your comments with sequential excerpts from the OT III.