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Don't delete your Reddit account (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Reddit is actively restoring deleted comments and posts. Deleting your account won't make any useful difference. Instead:

  • Keep the account around but use some tool to delete all comments and posts everyday. I use Redact app on Android but there're many others. Reddit would not be restoring comments and posts if they are not useful to them. By keeping your profile and keep deleting everything, you are denying Reddit any chance from making use of your data.
  • Monitor when subreddit opens poll for re-opening and vote the "best" option.
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

seems like this is only effect some people since I deleted my posts and comments like a week ago and nothing has been restored

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

Just checked and mine got restored too.

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

Did you use the power suite and use it multiple times?

Seems to be a bug and there’s some fork of it that somebody made to fix the issue

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

Yeah Power Delete Suite doesn't respect the timeout limits for edit requests so it misses things sometimes.

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

I didn't use the edit function though, since I've already read about it causing issues with the API limits. If there's a fork that fixes it I'd like to have a link though.

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

For me, the stuff I deleted is still gone, but it was only the most recent 1000 posts or something like that. On my profile, it looks like there's nothing, but if I do a search, it's bringing up older stuff.