Deleted my 7 years old Reddit Account today
Deleted my 7 years old Reddit Account today
What the title says.
A certain Mr. Huffman is making Reddit, which was once the frontpage of the internet (it still is, albeit for different reasons) a living hell for us.
Being in the coding/development trade as my profession, I am a huge advocate of anything FOSS, so when I found Lemmy, I did not look back.
Thanks to PowerDeleteSuite, I got rid of all my contents from Reddit. I did hear reasonings like "leave them there, for the benefits of lurkers" - but nope. I do not trust the sorting algorithm of Reddit anymore, I do not believe people will get to see my content if needed. So yep, blow 'em up.
I kept a close eye for a while on whether my posts and comments get resurrected (yes I did read about people experiencing this) - but I guess PDS did a good job for me.
So there you go, Snoo - you are cute - but creepy Stevie is fucking with your cuteness, and fucking with all of us.
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PowerDeleteSuite is great. Weird thing, though, and idk if anyone else experienced this, but... my Reddit content is still posted, despite having obfuscated and then deleted using PDS. Anyone else?
For those who are interested in keeping their bookmarks and the subreddits (communities) they're subscribed to before deleting all accounts, I made a free tool to help you store and offload that data.
It's called Reddit Account Manager, and it's 100% free.
You can also use it for Lemmy accounts, of course.
I think reddit is reversing all edits made using powerdeletesuite.
What I did was to sort by comments by top score of all time, and then manually edit the useful ones to paragraphs of gibberish (google "gibberish generator" or something. I left all the snarky comments and low-effort puns alone.
Didn't take more than an hour
I don't mean to give Reddit the benefit of the doubt here but PowerDeleteSuite does have issues with exceeding Reddit's rate limit. If you don't go through and confirm the deletions there likely will be some left intact.
That would make sense tbh. I might have to do it manually then. How many comments did you have on your account? I wanna gauge approximately how long it'd take for me to go through mine.
The other thing that concerns me is that I deleted my accounts, yet they still showed up (didn't display as "deleted user"), and I was able to log into them.
One more thing: I recently came across this fork of PDS, which is slightly modified and supposedly works (though I've yet to try it): https://lemmy.ml/comment/3831970
Well... I don't remember but I had about 2 years' worth of comments across 3-4 accounts (I usually change accounts every few years), so about 6-8 years' worth of comments.
Just editing the useful comments doesn't take that long honestly - there were a lot of "hold my axe!" or pun chains that I left as is.
Just wrapped up following your lead and saying goodbye to my account. Lemmy is home.
Friend, where were you in June?!?!
Cool stuff, though. Now when I switch things up I have a tool!
Stuck in analysis paralysis and my perfectionist ways, unfortunately. 😓
Better late than never, I suppose. And your comment is really encouraging, so thank you. It helps.