I get this error message every single time I tried to delete my account for the past few days. Is spez really banning people from deleting their accounts, or is this just an error on my end somehow? Because if he is… that’s just fucked up :/

  • Khalic
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    101 year ago

    Use shreddit to delete all your content. You can also send a GDPR request to delete your data

    • @Little8Lost
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      1 year ago

      it is better to migrate the helpful comments to lemmy, after thischange the comments to nonsense than to delete it:
      https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/146lloj/protip_if_you_replace_the_content_of_your/

      “: if you replace the content of your posts/comments with nonsense, you’ll make Reddit Inc. (including its CEO) lose money.”

      "There’s a good chance that those API price changes were motivated by large businesses using Reddit to train their large language models (LLMs) with. Stuff like GPT-3, Google’s BERT, Facebook’s Galactica, stuff like this. In other words, your content will be used to train bots. (It is, already.)

      Those models can be “poisoned” with random, machine generated nonsense. Poisoned data is worse than useless: it makes the model worse. So for each person replacing their Reddit content with nonsense, those businesses will be willing to pay Reddit Inc. less and less for API access."

      "Here is a mini-tutorial on how to do this. It’s for desktop users but you’ll likely be able to do the same from a phone browser.

      • Open Zompist’s gen. Take off the line saying “ki|či”, and click “Generate”. You’ll get some random babble like “Bepe topioi kabi brete i kropra”, copy it somewhere.
      • Open your Reddit profile and drag the button of Power Delete Suite to it.
      • [Optional] Check the box saying “prepare local backup of items”, if you want to save your content elsewhere.
      • Uncheck “remove comments”. You want to replace them with babble, not remove them.
      • [Optional] uncheck “remove posts”. It depends if you post mostly self posts or if you post links/pics. Use your reasoning.
      • Check “Edit comments / self posts”. It should open an input box for text; place the babble from Zompist’s gen there. Then click “process”.
      • Just wait!
      • [Optional] Click to download the backup of the items.

      If you don’t like Zompist’s gen and/or Power Delete Suite, you can use any generator and/or Reddit mass edition tool of your choice."

      and yes, i am somewhat still on reddit but i think i do more against them when my app does not work anymore (to spread lemmy or information) i will follow this process

      • @[email protected]
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        51 year ago

        I would argue that if you have any posts/comments with very helpful/popular content, repost it in Lemmy, then edit the Reddit post/comment to point to your Lemmy copy.

        It won’t work for everything that you’ve posted/commented, but if you pick out the biggest things it will help bring additional content to Lemmy, and hopefully some more users as well.

        • @Little8Lost
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          31 year ago

          that is a very good idea. i planned following the plan at the end of the month before i deleting my account so i can do as much damage as possible. but maybe not because i mostly want to inform people and get them here before i go…
          Will edit my post

        • @Little8Lost
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          11 year ago

          then share the post with other fellow lemmys and redditors, because sharing is (not for reddit) caring

    • hash
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      11 year ago

      Anybody able to chime in on if this works for US citizens? GDPR and CCPA don’t cover me but will they bother to check? Maybe as simple as using a VPN?

  • @[email protected]
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    31 year ago

    Damn I somehow knew this would happen. Deleting accounts on reddit is so easy compared to every other major website/social media. Maybe try doing it on old.reddit.com thats how I did it when this all began.

  • Br0da
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    11 year ago

    I was able to delete mine yesterday but I’m wondering with the influx of users deleting their accounts that Reddit needed to figure out a way to stop the bleeding. What better way than to disable it! Fucking trifling