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!
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?
I made a tool for that!
Grodan Boll 😍
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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.
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.
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.
Shreddit is not malware so dont worry :) You should be able to do it on the site https://shreddit.com/ without downloading anything tho. If that doesnt work then try https://redact.dev/.
Plus one on redact that’s what I used and i say so long data, won’t miss ya one bit
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
