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I've deleted my account but only after I deleted or edited all my posts and comments. I actually used a script to edit all comments into a protest comment about reddit. If the script count edit, I had it delete
That script does nothing. They can reverse it. A guy here was talking about that. He had been a very heavy user in some tech support sub there. He used one of those accounts scrubbers and then went back to look a few weeks later and everything had been restored.
If I remember right he said he was one of the more well-known users on that subreddit? So he was probably somebody they looked at as being 'valuble'
The script works fine. What actually happened was that some subreddits were in blackout mode and therefore the comments were invisible but not yet deleted. When they returned the comments became visible again. Anything the script missed was because of the comments temporarily not being visible from the API. Simply running the script again was all that was needed once subreddits returned. My comments have stayed deleted after that.
I wrote with reddit support asking them to not restore my content and asking them to confirm this on writing. If I ever find any of my content I'll definetelly report them to my local data authorities and I told them I'd do so when writing with them
That scrubber should spread the work over weeks or months. It’s easy for Reddit to detect a mass edit or deletion when it’s all done on the same day. And if you only want to edit the posts probably better to not use the same text twice. Use ChatGPT to create variations.
I guess I’m not important enough but I used a scrubber to replace all my messages to say I was going to Lemmy after all the recent changes to Reddit and last time I checked recently they were still edited. Maybe it helps I didn’t actually delete my account? I just edited all my comments and stopped interacting with Reddit completely.
I did it but left a few select support subreddits out of it, I just checked (thanks to you, thanks btw) and it seems my shit is still deleted, though I found out there's at least one subreddit that logged comments as posts citing the usernames they're from, seemingly for scraping and data aggregation purposes, since they're without any context other than the title post and subreddit they're from.
Seems to be dead for at least three years, but it's still creepy.
Btw I'm certain there are many backups existing somewhere, maybe not public accessible but there must be
It actually made searching for solutions considerably worse. It was kind of a shitty bandwagon to sit on, would have made far more sense to back all of those posts up in an easy to index place. It would have actually made sense, as it would have made a new repository of knowledge.
That is a price that i am willing to pay. I don't want Reddit to be making ad-revenue on all this info when they more or less highjacked it like that
My thoughts exactly. If it's making finding solutions to problems worse for the end user, that's obviously bad for the end user, but it also means it's affecting the reputation of the site in some meaningful way- even if it's as simple as inconveniencing a guy looking for an answer
The issue with what you did is that your data or info will get eventually replicated, but it has negligible chances of ending up on a site you deem worthy with the reddit debacle in mind.
Social sites come and go. Information is somewhat more important and valuable.
That is why most of what was done "aganist" reddit was a pretty rash decision. Congrats, you fucked (or at least tried) over reddit and now this info will eventually become available on the next shitty platform in line.
Not like you need traction on lemmy because it is full of barely alive subs even now. Sure, just get rid of info out of personal anger towards a platform...