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RIF will be shutting down on June 30, 2023, in response to Reddit Inc's API changes and their hostile treatment of developers building on their platform.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Well, there's two down.

About to get real spicy.

EDIT: Here's the link to the official post via teddit if you dont wanna give Reddit more traffic.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yup. I'll be deleting my Reddit account at some point over the next couple of weeks. Without RiF I'll not be using Reddit at all.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Do it quickly while the scripts to do it still allow you to overwrite your comments.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I don't love the idea of everyone deleting their comments.

I know Reddit has gone shit. And we should not add more, but I don't want all the knowledge and tech support fixes it be gone forever. That's knowledge people can still use.

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

All your posts and comments will feed the future AI's. That's the end goal of reddit: selling their database to different AI's. Don't give it for free.

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

Pretty sure it's already been scraped. Plus there is the way back machine. But I can't even count the amount of times I have run in to an issue at work or at home and googled "Problem Reddit" or "item review Reddit" . That info has been invaluable.

Leave Reddit. No more new content. But it's sad to see such a knowledge base just wiped. It's hurting the normal people. Reddit has their data. AI has scraped it, or will scrape the history sites of it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Where does one find these scripts?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It is a python script, you need the praw library. The client id’s are given in your profile after you create an app.

  
import praw

reddit = praw.Reddit(client_id='yourid',
	client_secret='yoursecret',
	password='your password',
	user_agent='deletes my comments',
	username='your username')

redditor = reddit.redditor("your username")

for comment in redditor.comments.top(limit=10000):
	comment.edit("deleted")
	comment.delete()

You can edit and delete everything in the same pass but I prefer to overwrite my comments first and give time for the cache machines to register my new garbage before deleting with another pass.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Here is a sanitizer script that uses nothing but javascript

https://github.com/ryanford/Reddit-History-Sanitizer/blob/master/RedditHistorySanitizer.js

Open a tab, login to your account and go to your account page aka reddit.com/u/usernamehere (you likely need old.reddit version of your account, its all I use). Install tampermonkey and the script into that.. It will iterate through your comments, overwrite them, then delete and refresh the page as it goes.

Change the line here:

const age = 7

to

const age = -1

To delete all comments. You can adjust that number (in days) to how old you it to filter for comments.