Today, not in a moment of necessity, but a moment of protest, I logged in to Reddit because I found tons of comments and posts listed on old Reddit when you sort by top or controversial.
I logged in to Reddit to destroy even more of my comments that were missed by Power Delete Suite.
It seems a lot of people are doing this. I’ve seen some interesting stuff here and Reddit with screenshots of deleted comments with “this solved my problem” below the deletion.
The way I look at it, ALL of my content was posted via Apollo, just like all of my comments and posts are through WefWef here. If Reddit admins felt the API shouldn’t be free, then my submissions are also not free for them to monetize and get traffic from.
I know for a fact I’ve had 100+ #1 ranked longtail SEO posts in Reddit before I deleted everything. Many of them were getting tons of traffic based on the amount of follow-up private messages received years later.
I do expect Reddit’s traffic to go down as a whole because of everyone leaving but also because of how many removed their content.
That IPO of theirs is going so well.
is it possible to locally backup all my comments and posts? I just want to save some important stuff throughout the years before overwriting all of it.
Power Delete Suite has an option to save all content it deletes in a CSV before it does any deletions.
If you GDPR request your data from Reddit you can use the following tool to access your user profile
https://github.com/xavdid/reddit-user-to-sqlite
I’ve seen a couple people complain that reddit is ignoring it, and even restoring their deleted posts.
Gotta keep up appearances so people cant see the steaming pile of shit is rotting away, i guess.