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So, to shred or not to shred the Reddit account? (beehaw.org)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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After many days i finally received my GDPR data request, which i supplemented further with reddit-user-to-sqlite, so i have a nice full local copy of my account. Now I'm torn on whether to fully shred the data of the account or just delete it:

  • On one side, i highly dislike the idea of willingly contributing to a Wisdom of the Ancients scenario, although it might be a moot point anyway since it looks like Spez wants to wall off Reddit after all
  • On the other, fuck Spez and i don't wanna contribute a single cent to their profits
  • And as an additional point, it's rather unsettling the amount of info you can gather of somebody from their Reddit posts, just from a privacy point of view

What are your opinions on this?

Edit: Just deleted my RemindMeBot reminders, somehow that felt like it had almost the same finality as deleting my account somehow...

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I’m hoping my data request comes in soon!

I’m torn on deleting my account. I have some nice helpful (long) posts on there and would rather someone find them useful some day than just burn it all down.

What irks me about all the protest coverage is the focus on just the API cost, when to menthe crux is the complete ignorance of the admins that the communities themselves were the value of Reddit. We were the ones that put in content that made Reddit be what it is over 15 years.

I’m leaning to just changing my password to gibberish and logging out one last time once I get my GPDR request finished.