Deleted my 12 year old, 43334 Karma, reddit account
I feel free !
Thanks to Power Delete Suite.
I actually run cupoftea.social on mastodon so I was already very familiar with the fediverse. The more platforms for it the better.
I can feel the heat death of the tech bro universe in my soul and it is nourishing. Let the great separation of social media ensue. Leave the corporations to mingle and advertise eachother... and let us go be us without algorithm and financial motivation. I like it. I like it a lot.
Please don't make the mistake of deleting your account. it disassociates your data and it has become clear that mass deletion tools can't remove all your posts. You really do want your account after the 30th so you can send a legal take down notice as an extra special fuck you to Reddit.
PowerDeleteSuite doesn't get everything. It only goes through your New, Hot, Top & Controversial lists, but reddit has been limiting the comments available in these lists for a few months now.
For example, if you have a link to an old Top comment, you might find several low karma (but positive) replies underneath that reddit didn't touch.
What you need to do to get everything is make a GDPR request and use the csv files with shreddit (the github version, not the website). The GDPR files contain links to every single comment, so you can get everything. However shreddit uses the API, and almost certainly won't work after 1 July - also reddit seem to be stalling on following through on GDPR requests now.
Lastly, some comments have been coming back after being deleted by these tools. Supposedly this is to do with reddit's CDN architecture, but who knows. I wouldn't be surprised if they restore a bunch of comments on 1July, then if your account is already deleted you will struggle to do anything about that. It's probably a good idea to retain your count for the time being, so that you can confirm everything is still gone.
How will these tools (power delete, shreddit, redact.dev etc) behave after July 1st? Will users still be able to nuke their content or do they need to hurry tfu before the fatidic date?
Not sure about the others, but Power Delete Suite will still work. It runs locally in your browser in the user's preexisting auth context. To reddit, it's not going to look any different than someone manually editing/deleting their posts through a browser, except the rate at which those actions are performed.
Thank you! I'm not sure it'll be the same for shreddit as it must be registered as a "script" application on reddit in order to work so I'm guessing it's using API.
Thank you! I’m not sure it’ll be the same for shreddit as it must be registered as a “script” application on reddit in order to work so I’m guessing it’s using API.
That's correct, it is using the API. If it's being registered as an app in reddit for your user, that's shreddit requesting authorization to get OAuth tokens for your user.
I just deleted mine as well after not using Reddit for more than a total of about a half hour in the past week. Didn't feel a thing, either. My phone's battery life has improved drastically and so has my mental health. It's actually to the point where I'm not sure if I even care to be here or any other Reddit alternatives. I understand they're all growing but none of it feels the same, and is it really all so bad to not feel the need to be on social media every waking hour?
i honestly don't care about it at all. my main reddit has like 60k and is 14 years old. it's really just a number that shows how much you've posted on the site / how long you've been on the site
sort of like your age. why do we track age? just an arbitrary number based on the earth going around the sun. but it's a number and it shows progress so why not
I'll go against the "it doesn't matter" grain and give you a real answer: It just feels good to know people like having you around and appreciate your contributions. I could look at my karma total and know that in the 12 years I used reddit, an average of ~27 people per day, every day, appreciated the fact that I was there. Even if it took almost nothing for them to show it, it was nice to be reminded that I connected with that many people in a positive way.
On the other hand, it makes the site as a whole shittier, because people become obsessed with making their number bigger, and a huge amount of activity is done purely with that goal in mind.
I won't delete my account immediately. I am concerned they will reinstate all comments in a month or so. Want to make sure they are not comming back before i delete my account.
they keep restoring mine and i keep deleting.... so i had enough of that shit and just got the idea to edit only instead of chasing my tail.... and so now all my restored comments point to lemmy's url. i'm paranoid they are still not done and ill log in one day and see everything fully restored to the way it was.
Same here. Ran a script to edit and delete all my comments yesterday. At least cleared out the 1,000 that Reddit saves in your comment history. I’m not deleting my account yet in case they decide to mysteriously restore my comments.
I did the same thing and I saw someone here mention after they ran a script some comments magically reappeared some time after. I checked mine and low and behold about 10 (out of 4,500) reappeared so it wasn’t to bad editing and deleting them.
Yeah, I was mostly a lurker on reddit, but actually posted a lot more than I thought I did. I'm cleaning out my account now. But I'm not deleting it yet. I want to give it a few weeks to see if they try to role back any accounts to restore some of the content that was lost.
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