I get this error message every single time I tried to delete my account for the past few days. Is spez really banning people from deleting their accounts, or is this just an error on my end somehow? Because if he is... that's just fucked up :/
Use shreddit to delete all your content. You can also send a GDPR request to delete your data
it is better to change the comments to nonsense than to delete it:
https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/146lloj/protip_if_you_replace_the_content_of_your/
": if you replace the content of your posts/comments with nonsense, you'll make Reddit Inc. (including its CEO) lose money."
"There's a good chance that those API price changes were motivated by large businesses using Reddit to train their large language models (LLMs) with. Stuff like GPT-3, Google's BERT, Facebook's Galactica, stuff like this. In other words, your content will be used to train bots. (It is, already.)
Those models can be "poisoned" with random, machine generated nonsense. Poisoned data is worse than useless: it makes the model worse. So for each person replacing their Reddit content with nonsense, those businesses will be willing to pay Reddit Inc. less and less for API access."
"Here is a mini-tutorial on how to do this. It's for desktop users but you'll likely be able to do the same from a phone browser.
If you don't like Zompist's gen and/or Power Delete Suite, you can use any generator and/or Reddit mass edition tool of your choice."
and yes, i am somewhat still on reddit but i think i do more against them when my app does not work anymore (to spread lemmy or information) i will follow this process
I would argue that if you have any posts/comments with very helpful/popular content, repost it in Lemmy, then edit the Reddit post/comment to point to your Lemmy copy.
It won't work for everything that you've posted/commented, but if you pick out the biggest things it will help bring additional content to Lemmy, and hopefully some more users as well.
that is a very good idea. i planned following the plan at the end of the month before i deleting my account so i can do as much damage as possible. but maybe not because i mostly want to inform people and get them here before i go...
Will edit my post
Anybody able to chime in on if this works for US citizens? GDPR and CCPA don't cover me but will they bother to check? Maybe as simple as using a VPN?
it won't let me delete my account either so must be a system thing
@Alexxxolotl I was able to delete mine without issue yesterday from a desktop browser, but that doesn't mean they're not messing with something on the backend.