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Delete all your Reddit content (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Just sharing here how I deleted all content from my 30k+ karma account. It's an easy to use, open source, and private way to do it, check out PowerDeleteSuite.

No need to install anything, just bookmark the JS script and run it. This tool was posted here almost 3 weeks ago, but I thought of enforcing it, with the great blackout approaching. The best thing about PDS is that it should remain working since it doesn't use the API.

PDS is able to export your comments, but to export saved items you might want to check Rexport - this one uses the API however, so maybe run it in within the next hours.

I hate having to do this, but Reddit doesn't deserve the community it has.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You should check that your stuff isn't undeleted by Reddit. Some other people have reported them doing that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I used it to overwrite everything so if they restore it they'll have a whole lot of comments saying "So long and thanks for all the cheese." I did it twice just in case of reversion.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They are probably reverting to a backup copy they have from before the protest started. Not just simply undeleting the comment.

Honestly, I think people should keep their accounts so they can redo the post and comment edits and/or deletes if necessary.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I also nuked my Reddit account with nearly 60k karma, and I have a few other accounts with 1k-15k that I am nuking.

I am sad to remove it, I had some original short stories on r/writingprompts that I am really proud of, so I backed them up before editing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I killed my reddit account snd pulled all my stuff. Forget them. Not looking back.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I used it yesterday to overwrite everything, twice, before I deleted every comment more than a week old.

It was very freeing!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I also went the extra mile and sink-holed reddit's domain, cause why not.

Just add this to your /etc/hosts:

0.0.0.0        reddit.com

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

As much as I hate reddit now, I wish people wouldn't do this. It's gonna make googling shit awful soon

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As much as I hate that it is in Reddit hands, I feel like there's a lot of valuable information on there that I would not want lost.

I'd much rather we prep end every comment with something like:

"I am moving to lemmy, and have set this comment to auto-delete in 4 weeks" of something like that. Or maybe remove the auto delete portion, but at least you'd be giving visibility to lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I feel the same. PDS has an open issue about the possibility of having the original comment in their editing feature, which would allow a "prepend" operation.

Reddit pages are among the most useful for many search queries I have helped many others throughout the years. But Reddit as a company doesn't deserve this leverage. For situations one really needs to read a deleted post or comment, with some luck they can see it in http://webarchive.org/ - that's actually how I would see most posts that I needed after the June 12th blackout.

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