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Nuking old Reddit accounts (lemm.ee)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I took part in the Reddit blackout a month ago, and accessed Reddit through Apollo. After the blackout I looked at Reddit a handful of times and then let my association with Reddit die with Apollo.

I haven’t been there since, but now I feel as though I should have deleted my account of 7 years, that way everything I ever contributed will be gone.

However, to accomplish this as you all know I should delete all my posts first and edit all comments. I was wondering what people used to do this. I want everything to read “Edit: moved to Lemmy”.

I’m sure others migrating here have the same question. Thanks.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

copied from elsewhere:

To do a full scrub of everything you've ever posted:

  1. Request your GDPR data package here: https://www.reddit.com/settings/data-request
  2. Wait for it to arrive
  3. Use shreddit to fully delete everything: https://github.com/andrewbanchich/shreddit

This will take a long time if you've posted and commented a lot. This works better than PowerDeleteSuite in my experience, as PDS missed a lot of stuff that was older than a certain point.

There is a way to make it not delete your comments and change what the edited message is, check the readme in the github link.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does shreddit still work now that the APIs are turned off? I'd've thought the mass-deletion apps would be the first thing they turned the spigot off for.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

This script works as an app attached to your user, and rate limits itself so it doesn't break - that's why it takes so long, though. Took me 25 hours to shred a 6 year old account.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thank you.