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The steps to deleting your Reddit account

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I was a piker and just hit the delete button without doing any of these things. Did I lose some history that, in retrospect, I might have wanted to revisit...honestly, no! I never went back and visited my old posts and (and I'm embarrassed to admit this), none of them were likely to have any value to future generations.

Some people post great, information rich posts about how to debug .NET applications or defuse nuclear weapons. I think my greatest contribution to Reddit was making a pun that once got 54 likes.

The important thing to remember is to delete your Reddit account (and hope that AskHistorians comes to the Fediverse eventually!).

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The problem with deleting is that they can still harvest your data, you want to use a script to overwrite everything if you truly want it gone

https://github.com/andrewbanchich/shreddit

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

If they want to keep our data, realistically nothing we can do will stop them.

I had the same mental debate when I deleted my Facebook account years ago and realized I just don't have any power in this situation. I am deleting things mostly for my benefit; it's symbolic, like throwing away the remaining pack of cigarettes. That act by itself does nothing, but it sure doesn't hurt my chances of actually kicking the habit.

In this case, even if the data is still buried somewhere in Reddit's servers, if enough people do the same it will destroy any "value" that Reddit has left as a company. Trying to undo all of that would be a massive, likely impractical undertaking that I'm comfortable betting simply won't happen.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

At the very least, you can edit all of your posts to advertise a lemmy instance hahaha.

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

This is super hepful. Thank you!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same, I have not exported anything, just delete thousands of comments from 13 years

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Same here. No saving. Power delete suite to edit, then wipe it all

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Step 4. Delete your lifehacker page that mentions you once had a Reddit account.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Big brain move.

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

Power Delete Suite is amazing, and thank you to the wizard that made it!

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

Same except I envy you the 54. Well done

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

I'll just delete account. no export, no comment delete.

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

I Just yolo deleted