If you are thinking about deleting your Reddit's history (comments, posts, etc), do it before the end of this month
If you are thinking about deleting your Reddit's history (comments, posts, etc), do it before the end of this month
Power Delete Suite for Reddit. Contribute to j0be/PowerDeleteSuite development by creating an account on GitHub.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1180367
There are tools out there that help with this, but the better ones like the one I linked use the API.
I don't know what will happen to them next month, but if you are thinking about it, keep in mind that they may not be around or work like they do today, and you may have to use other more convoluted tools.
For now I am holding off on deleting everything, I don't think I will ever go back (Lemmy is so much better) but I do want to wait to see the outcome of it going dark before I decide to remove all of my posts & comments.
Is there any good way to sell an acct with 150k karma to a spammer?
Yep. Deleted thousands of my comments and posts today.
I personally used this tool over PowerDeleteSuite. Has a bit of a nicer GUI as well and an app for every OS
Thanks. I just used it to delete my posts.
Been working great. Wiped 4 accounts, including one of mine that's been active for EIGHT years.
Tool works great, cleaned my my Reddit and Twitter accounts, it's Kbin and Mastadon for me!
Did you know you can follow mastodon users from kbin and vice versa!? The feediverse is kinda amazing.
It really sucks that thousands of potentially useful reddit comments might go away because the CEO fucked up so incredibly badly.
Very dumb question on my part, but why would someone do this as opposed to just deleting account or simply never logging in again? Deleting my history never occurred to me and I have one super old account (inactive) and my current is about 8 years old
It’s to hurt reddits usefulness in the search rankings. Less content on the site means that they should get less traffic in general.
Doubt this does anything special If you're not in gdpr or the CA version reddit can just lie to you about deleting anything
I agree - generally speaking they're almost certainly not actually deleting anything when they say they are, just flagging it as gone. And edits are probably stored as diffs. AND so many people have been scraping Reddit for long enough now that there's full copies of everything you've posted out there already.
Thanks for sharing the app. Wish I would have known about this before I manually deleted my most useful comments. Didn't get to all of them though. Oh well feels good to be somewhere new and look forward to exploring here.
You're welcome!
I understand the sentiment, and everyone of course has the right to do this with the content they posted, but please consider:
The only thing this probably achieves is fucking over people googling for specific information in the future. How often have I searched for some really specific problem or information, only to find a thread in some niche subreddit from years ago with exactly what I needed?
For Reddit itself it's trivial to keep previous versions of comments. Also deleted posts can just be flagged as 'hidden' and still remain in the database. They already have your content and won't be giving it up. So please consider leaving it available for the public as well.
