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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] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Unfortunately the tools for mass editing and deletion will probably stop functioning on July 1.

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

GDPR/CCPA requests:

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

Add DPA in there too.

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

At least the one i used, power delete suite, doesnt need API access, its a script run while youre logged in, they said if you can delete comments, it can delete comments.

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

They probably can be switched to scraping instead of api, will be slower but should be ok if you massdeleted everything already and just do like a daily/weekly cleanup of a few comments.

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

It takes a bit of work but you can write a script to automate it through the browser using Selenium and the programming language of your choice.