this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2023
20 points (100.0% liked)
13638 readers
3 users here now
founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Glad I haven’t looked back since leaving. I do need to delete my profiles though. Was still having hope
I spent 10 years on that site. I’m not sure I can bring myself to delete all my comments and the profile itself.
I haven’t logged in since Apollo died though
Why let them have all that content you provided though? Don't get me wrong what you all do with your accounts is your business. I'm not about to be that person that comes barging in with "YOU NEED TO DELETE YOUR ACCOUNT", but if it helps lend any credibility to what I have to say - I was on there for over a decade with over 150k karma (99% of that comment karma so I participated a lot in discussions over the years) and as difficult as it was, I deleted my post/comment history and then my account. I don't want to support them by allowing them to profit off of my free labor/efforts.
Not saying every single comment I made was gold or worth much, but if it helps them to pump up their numbers for advertisers/stockholders then I'd just as soon remove my contribution.
I tried, but it didn't take. The comment deletions were all restored the next day. I haven't asked for the account to be deleted, but I think that still leaves behind all the comment history.
Use one of the scripts that overwrites your comments first. Just deleting doesn't help one bit.
They also rate limit you to one action every 1.5 seconds or something.
What is the app that does that?
There are several ways. If you want to overwrite and delete:
https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/10905-reddit-overwrite-extended/code (This runs as a script in your browser over a plugin, like Greasy Fork, you install the JavaScript Plugin, add the script code, navigate to your comments and let it work).
For just overwriting without deleting.. haven't found something good yet. I adapted the script above for it and it took a while.
There is also shreddit, but it has more setup: https://github.com/x89/Shreddit
I don't think I'll delete my account or comments. There's a lot of memories there. I've said a lot of nice things to nice people. Reddit was one of the places I grieved for my father. And I didn't have my act together enough to download my comment/post history before the third-party export tools stopped working.
I respect your decision, but I also wish to write that your experiences are yours, and nobody can take that away from you. Lately, I have been working to take pictures of items I don't need anymore to help me remove things I don't need from my life as a way to hold the experience but let go of the object.
This is not advice, only, know that nobody owns your experiences but you.