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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Screw community names, I want instance agnostic URLs for posts and comments.

Right now lemmy.ml/comment/123456 and lemmy.ml/comment/123456 are two different comments, and there is no simple way to find one comment on another instance (so you can interact with it from your logged in account). What we should have is lemmy.ml/comment/[email protected] to point to a comment made on another instance, then you can just change the instance name after the @ to find the comment (or post) on any other instance.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (13 children)

Go one further, edit and delete all your posts.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think lots of instances, basically any of the ones that haven't been defederated. You could also apply directly to beehaw.

lemmy.ml is still in with them, that's probably the biggest. Kbin also works I think. Basically just pick one out of the list of instances at the bottom of any webpage.

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

You should bear in mind, PowerDeleteSuite doesn't get everything. It can only see what's in your reddit profile under New, Top, Hot & Controversial - there will be numerous posts that are too old with only 1 or a few karma that aren't displayed in these lists. In particular, if you go through your top posts of all time, you might find some replies to these posts that you made that the script did not see.

The GDPR archive gives a full list of all the comments. What we need is a FOSS script that can use these csv files to get everything. Apparently Shreddit can take the csv files, however you have to pay $15 to use this feature.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hijacking the top comment to say: PowerDeleteSuite doesn't get everything. It can only see what's in your reddit profile under New, Top, Hot & Controversial - there will be numerous posts that are too old with only 1 or a few karma that aren't displayed in these lists. In particular, if you go through your top posts of all time, you might find some replies to these posts that you made that the script did not see.

The GDPR archive gives a full list of all the comments. What we need is a FOSS script that can use these csv files to get everything. Apparently Shreddit can take the csv files, however you have to pay $15 to use this feature.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You won't see edits though.

Edit: and others won't see yours. This is invisible unless you're on lemmy.ml

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

undefined> I want to be where all the smart, fun people are

Hence why you're on lemmy.ml! :)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Usually tickling his feet makes him release.

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

You're not wrong. lemmy.ml only points to one machine at one IP address.

Granted, the fediverse means that posts here are copied elsewhere, but it's only the initial posts, not the user accounts or edits.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Canada here, not very common until you get close to Canada day or Armistice day.

It's very common if you're travelling Europe and are American.

 

I've run Power Delete Suite a few times, however it looks like it doesn't delete everything. For me, comments that are older than a few months don't show up in /[user]/?sort=new, and similarly there is a limit to comments displayed under hot, top or controversial. The script also missed my comments in /[user]/gilded - it looks like it only runs on the 4 sorting methods in /[user]/overview.

Basically, my comments that are more than a few months old and have less than ~50 karma (which is the vast majority of them over the years) are invisible on my reddit profile, and thus unavailable to PDS.

However, I did a GDPR data request from reddit beforehand, so I have csv files of every comment, including links. I feel like it should be pretty straightforward to make a script to read the csv, open the links and edit each comment, in much the same way that PSD does. Only I'm not quite up to the task.

Does anyone here know of such a script that's already been made, or know of anyone who would be up for making it? I feel like it's not just me in this boat, and in fact many people might think all their comments have been deleted when they aren't.

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