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It’s truly sad to see a website that I’ve been on for 8+ years turn to an absolute dumpster fire. I suppose I’m not surprised by Steve Huffman’s (u/spez) behavior, he has been deplorable to say the least over the countless years and this just does it for me and so many other users.
The sub I mod on (r/Moustache) has gone private and will continue to indefinitely. I’ve deleted all of my posts aside from subreddit announcements and all of my comments on the site (all 4,500) of them.
If anyone wants to delete their user data on Reddit you can do so by using this tool PowerDeleteSuite. It took a while for the suite to delete all my comments (make sure you overwrite your existing comments with whatever you like first to prevent future AI scraping and Reddit making even more money off of you) but it was worth it.
Make sure to use a fork of PowerDeleteSuite that respects the edit rate limit if you plan to edit your comments. Otherwise it will only actually get like 1/3 of them.
Just run it 3 times! :)
I did actually try that, but it seemed to hit the limit on the same comments (which isn't that surprising). A fork that respects the limit took most of the night to run, but seems to have been thorough.
Any chance of a link to one of those forks that worked for you? I've been bashing my head against a wall trying to get any of the mass reddit comment deleters to work on all my comments, including the super old ones that don't show up on my user profile page but are still accessible through search engines!
I used gbf-dtb's fork. It seems like they've updated it to be easier to install since then as well. I used it by manually updating the URL to grab the script from in j0be's bookmarklet, but gbf-dtb appears to have re-linked to a codepen with a corrected one for easy installation now.
so reddit does not have a "delete my data" request link? I will do that when June 30th arrived and the tool should be more mature by then. :)