Hi, first post here, hoping people can share how they are cleaning up comments and deleting their reddit accounts. I’m ~~ thick as a brick~~ pretty average when it comes to tech, so far I’ve shreddit github.com/andrewbanchich/shreddit/releases but after downloading the windows version and trying to run it… It got blocked by windows security the first time, I insisted in running it, but afterwards nothing happened. I’ve just installed malware, who knows.

So if you have some foolproof method to nuke all reddit history in your account, I’d love to know about it. Thanks!

  • Aka
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    91 year ago

    I really hate the destruction of knowledge. I’ve no idea what all you’ve contributed but I feel compelled to ask if you’ve mirrored the data somewhere or archived it for public accessibility?

    • @[email protected]OP
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      31 year ago

      No, I haven’t made a backup. It’s 70% dumb comments and jokes, 25% arguments/ personal information and experiences I kinda regret sharing, and the rest might be called “knowledge”. I see where you are coming from, though.

      I could leave my stuff hanging there forever, but I remember being in a very similar situation years ago when I abandoned Deviantart. DA went through a similar phase of rebranding just like Reddit is doing today, killing its userbase. The site didn’t die, I didn’t remove my artwork, but while I was gone two things happened: art scavengers resold artworks on other platforms (lots of nfts, but not limited to) and DA introduced an AI system that allowed anyone to generate images using the artwork hosted as the source “learning” material. Before leaving, both scenarios would have sounded outlandish and unimaginable- yet they happened.

      I don’t know what other plans Reddit might come up with, or what new tech might crop up in the near future that could learn and use my stupid comment history. But I’d rather not find out.

    • Kresten
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      11 year ago

      Totally agree, a single deleted comment which provides context can ruin a whole comment thread

    • BigFig
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      21 year ago

      Plus one on redact that’s what I used and i say so long data, won’t miss ya one bit

    • @[email protected]OP
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      11 year ago

      Okay… I just thought it was weird to submit my reddit account and password to some other site, after all I got a considerable amount of karma. I figured there was something I should be able to run on my end instead

  • 稲荷大神の狐
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    31 year ago

    If you’re on Android, download redact.

    Worked like a charm for me. Was able to wipe my former accounts post and comment history in about an hour.

    After I wiped everything, I logged into the reddit website one last time, went to my account settings, and deleted my account.

  • @[email protected]
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    11 year ago

    I’d never delete my contributed and published content. Even if I were to delete my account. I’d consider it a loss for myself and everyone else/the public, not only reddit org.

    • Lvxferre
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      51 year ago

      In this case, migrating it to the alternative of your choice (or even your own website) is the best approach.

      The problem with leaving the content in Reddit is that, while it might be useful for some people, it encourages them to use and rely on a user-hostile company. And newer content that they produce will get stuck, in the walled garden of that user-hostile platform.

  • @[email protected]
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    11 year ago

    It’d be better to replace them all with something that links to Lemmy and fills the maximum comment size.

    If they want to complain about the cost of API requests, let’s make it more expensive for them.