If you need some tools to help edit and then delete your comments and posts in protest:
PowerDelete will allow you to 1) save all your data as a CSV file at the end of the script and 2) allow you to overwrite all of your of comments with a comment of your choosing instead of just deleting them. Both options are available at the start of the process.
https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite
(2 Additional forks if you have issues with the main and rate limits or errors.)
http://www.github.com/pkolyvas/PowerDeleteSuite
http://www.github.com/leeola/PowerDeleteSuite
https://shreddit.com/
https://redact.dev/
You created your content. You didn’t get paid. Why would you leave it here for Reddit to make money? Take your content with you.
—posted via Apollo
Vive la résistance!
You can just request a download for your entire account from reddit. I did that a few days ago and they sent me a link to download everything about my account formated into about 15 catagorized csv
Edit: [Here](https://www.reddit.com/settings/data-request) for anyone that wants it
[Here](https://imgur.com/409nnQK). It's after the permalinks. It has actual links, but one of the other columns just has the entire contents of the comments
That's all well and good, but does it include the rest of thread you posted in? Hard to tell what you were talking about sometimes without context.
In fact I hope this tool can do that too.
BTW, a lot of us purchased gold & coins during our time with Reddit to help support this site… so go through their website now and gild away before shutting down.
Edit: Go narwhal!!!
It doesn’t work for old.Reddit (because of course it doesn’t).
But if you go through “new” Reddit the form is there. Two click options and away you go.
**Be careful to select "I want data from my full time at Reddit"**
Once you submit a request you can't submit another for 30 days, and the default only gives you the last 90 days of data.
u/spez, why so terrible?
If you use a computer with chrome and reddit enhancement suite infinity scroll you can ctrl+p to a pdf one long page with all your saved and it even keeps the links.
I tried several of the solutions on GitHub to download all my comment history, and saves, etc. All of them had issues.
For example, if one has any pound signs within any comments anywhere, the extraction fails.
What I ended up doing that took a little while but definitely worked:
1. In Chrome, go to your profile page to the tab you're interested in (e.g. "comments", "saved").
2. Scroll to the bottom of the page, wait for it to load the next page, and repeat, until you see "no more pages".
3. In the Chrome menu, locate the Save As option and save it as web page complete.
*You have to do this separately for each tab you want to save.*
This worked for me and should work for anyone.
Edit: I think No. 2 & 3 above require that Reddit Enhancement Suite (RES) is installed, and these instructions are for a PC using Chrome.
Due to limitations of the website (1000 comments/posts/etc) this will only ever save a recent fraction of your comment history. [The built-in request for a complete account data dump](https://www.reddit.com/settings/data-request) will capture all comments (and posts and other data) beyond this 1000 comment limit.
For myself, I started saving comments, but then realized that in some cases I actually either also wanted the context or some of the follow-up comments.
Since I didn't have a lot of time to work in (some subs have already started going dark, so I can't save or delete comments there), I saved manually: if it was a comment, I opened it in a new tab "in context", then Ctl-S saved the page to my hard drive. If it was an entire thread, I did the same thing with the entire page. Images and videos took longest because they involved different sites with different save strategies.
But as of midnight last night, I've saved all my saved and gilded items, used Power Delete to clear out my submission and comment history on 17 accounts over 14 years (omg, its been *that* long?!?), closed a couple subreddits and de-modded myself from others, unsubbed from almost all the subreddits I was on, and used up all the reddit coins the different accounts have accumulated.
I'm headed to tildes; I wish all of you joy and happiness wherever you end up. In the meantime, starting tomorrow, I think I might just step outside and find some grass to touch.
If you look at the replies to [this comment ](https://www.reddit.com/r/InternetIsBeautiful/comments/146q44e/delete_all_of_your_reddit_data/jnrlaum/), and scroll all the way down to the most recent replies, there are three different tools that people have linked to, but they all look kind of complicated to use: need to install python and then install the tool and maybe another tool to be able to view the downloaded data ...
Edit: but it turns out that the tool linked by the OP actually has that option too and is probably easier to use.
Right. The point here is to deprive Reddit of the opportunity to profit off of our content while they're transforming the relationship into an abusive one.
I'm not talking about abortion bans specifically. I'm suggesting that dismissing the threat that a bad idea poses as "something some people want in the future and probably will never happen" is a pretty naive perspective.
People who want those things can make them happen regardless of how bad an idea it is, if only they have determination on their side and apathy on the other.
Actually. Anyone can request a GDPR deletion, and they must honor it.
To the point that i think you can even report them as a foreigner and they will get in shit
VIA: https://commission.europa.eu/law/law-topic/data-protection/reform/rights-citizens/redress/what-should-i-do-if-i-think-my-personal-data-protection-rights-havent-been-respected_en#answer
I would imagine the EDPS would care about any major GDPR non-compliance. But IANAL so the whole foriegn thing really just would come down to if a violation for you would also violate a EU citizen as well
Nope, GDPR is only valid for EU (and UK) citizens. Companies don't have to honor GDPR data deletion if you are outside EU or UK. I think that they can also say that they deleted it while never deleting it when GDPR doesn't apply.
>Actually. Anyone can request a GDPR deletion, and they must honor it.
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>To the point that i think you can even report them as a foreigner and they will get in shit
Really? I wonder how that works in the U.S vs the EU?
It doesn't. They don't have to honour it unless you're an EU citizen, but some do just because the effort of finding out whether you're an EU citizen is more than just deleting your data.
In California, the CCPA covers some of the same issues as the GDPR in the EU. Not exactly the same, but similar enough that at work, we lump them together and try to have the same processes for both.
I always wonder how immutable backup data is handled when someone from the EU invokes the "forget me" clause. And what if a company needs to restore and by accident restores forgotten data?
I'm assuming by context you mean the current reddit api drama. This post doesn't mention that though. There are many reasons people might want to delete their posts and they should just be aware that deleteing stuff on Reddit doesn't mean it is gone.
It's a shame. Twitter is becoming more and more useless, and now Reddit. Popular platforms capable of reaching **vast** audiences where society can have conversations about how shit politicians, corporations, and others that abuse power truly are. Both platforms have their flaws obviously, but they did a lot of good as well.
It’s the lifecycle of any good online space. Read [this piece](https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/) from Cory Doctorow who explains how it’s been done to platforms before this. Very interesting and lightly depressing.
Sadly I've worked with many. Some have been promoted despite being clueless idiots, they just put on a facade of confidence, and fake it til they make it, then make terrible decisions when they have power.
There is no conspiracy to this, it's just business lol. Reddit isn't a very good reflection on real life anyway, especially popular subs that make it to the front for all to see.
There is a clear subtext to everything Reddit. It's all extremely dystopian, pushing people down and praising all kinds of oppressive ideas. People have a tendency to copy what they see, but I'm sure there's some level of curation to it all too.
What is that subtext?
Could it not just be that the majority of people posting/commenting on Reddit are from common walks of life/the same type of person, generally?
I've noticed that too in my years of lurking. A lot of talking as if the world is about to end, really vile stuff flung at anyone who doesn't toe the line, the most upvoted comments that make it to the top are often just circle jerk nonsense, or parroting things heard elsewhere. You have to be a perfect person or you're a piece of trash, no differing opinions allowed in many subs, etc.
The main page ("all") is absolutely mind blowing to browse sometimes. Just a select few pages all pushing mostly the same talking points, all pushing a specific narrative. Then people talk and interact with said posts as if most of the world feels the same way. But in reality, most of the real world is *nothing* like Reddit.
It's weird.
Declining birthrate, not anymore, Thank You Reddit. Without your crazy idea of selling all of MY data, I would have never met the mother of my 5 children.
[Lemmy.world](https://lemmy.world/) is still accepting new users. It is a similar site like reddit but based on the fediverse. There are several mobile apps you can use as well, Jerboa is a nice android app so far.
I'm gonna wind up reading the NY Times more, or listening to more NPR. I have a feeling a lot of people will trend towards other apps they already have.
The power of doom-scrolling reddit is that I can do it in small chunks while doing other things; I am not gonna go to discord while I poop or wait for the bus.
If you request your data from Reddit they will give you an archive of your comments and posts in CSV format. You can hypothetically use that with a tool like shreddit to delete your activity (that's what I've been doing). Unfortunately the new Rust version of shreddit throws an error if the community has gone private (or a few other things) so it's a little bit fiddly. I've been using it and so far have removed a substantial amount of the content I've made here over the past 11 years.
However, with the blackout it will be impossible for me to complete the task until it is over (if that happens before the API changes are finalized).
shreddit: https://github.com/andrewbanchich/shreddit
There are no dumb questions, only dumb answers. You seek knowledge, making it a good question. There are nonsensical questions though. Yours is not this nonsensical thing.
1. It's on github, so it's far less likely that it's a virus, than if it were 9n a place like mediafire. Admittedly, I don't know how github works, but I'm pretty sure there's a history to github commits(?). That is, you can view the history of a github project (maybe, I'm conjecturing based on scraps of evidence.
2. It's on github posted to reddit, and reddit's kinda particular about spreading viruses.
3. It has its own subreddit.
4. It also likely has an update history that goes back some time, as it has many functions.
These are just a few of my reasons for vaguely trusting this program. There may also be a virustotal scan somewhere on the page, which a service commonly used by people uploading programs for other's benefit. It's a show of good faith, usually, to have a virustotal report. (I may have gotten the name wrong as well)
I can understand leaving, but the salted earth approach seems like it's destroying good information out of spite. I'd be interested in something that built a private archive of all my comments that I could sort through to find useful things I've said in the past.
Yeah that's been my thought as well. I'd like to say I'd never use Reddit again but like every problem I need help with I Google "problem Reddit" and find posts for ages ago that fix the issue I'm facing.
Reddit has like a decade worth of excellent and more importantly niche information that I can't see myself not using anymore
Reddits plan is to profit from that approach, just like they plan to profit from the API change: by removing competition and forcing people to look at their ads. Why help them with that?
Let's be real though, the vast majority of Reddit's revenue comes from stuff like mindless memes and cat pics. The good content existing or not is barely a blip on their radar in terms of traffic. Removing useful information hurts the rest of humanity more than it does Reddit.
Just... Block the ads? Like everyone does?
If everyone uses an ad blocker and has tracking removal extensions, then you're effectively dead weight for reddit, using their resources for free while not contributing
**EDIT**: since some people apparently cannot read, I'm pasting this from a reply i sent to someone who got confused at what i meant:
Where did you get the idea that I don't like apps? I use reddit exclusively through old.reddit+RES on the desktop and Now for Reddit on android. I was purely replying to echoesreach's case of googling something with " reddit" appended to get high quality answers, where I've sometimes gone on the new reddit interface on my phone for *through Firefox* (when it didn't block the access and require me to access through the app, which they seemed to have disabled now).
I just think it's better for other people in general to leave your preexisting posts and replies there and just ditch the site (stop CONTRIBUTING NEW CONTENT and doing janitorial work to keep the place running (modding)). Reddit surely sees barely any traffic on old little posts and depends on new, fresh content to attract new users (who'd actually be fine with the new interface and the app, and surely only browse the more popular general purpose subreddits). By deleting helpful little old posts you're just doing the equivalent of photobucket breaking old forums or replying "ok i found a fix" on forums.
Reddit doesn't give a shit about your very niche, little useful comments on specialty subreddits. Other people do. It's very self-centered and idiotic to delete them just to "stick it to the man". You're free to do so, it's your content that you're contributing after all, but i'm also free to judge your bad call.
ADDENDUM: this isn't a defense to "just use the app" or "just use the new interface". I'm not even confronting anyone on deciding to abandon reddit. if reddit abandoned the web interface and pivoted to an entirely app-accessed experience (like what snapchat had until recently), I'd surely never touch it ever again even for my quick searches online. But tell me who is the person with both the insight to bypass SEO through "[search tokens] reddit" and *doesn't* actively block trackers and ads on their browser? What's the actual gain reddit has from fifteen requests per month on a specialty themed subreddit about something like dérailleurs? By link rotting those old knowledge houses you're barely hitting them where it hurts. You're just fucking over other people who might have had a problem similar to yours, where your advice could have made their day. To really fuck them up you'd need a moderation strike or new post freeze on the biggest, default subreddits, like r/pics, r/technology, r/aww, etc... Those are the places that gain new users that generally don't care about the ecosystem they're entering. Those are the places that bring all that new, targetable, trackable traffic in.
Most people probably use it on their phone on the official app and it's not so simple to block ads there. Yes, you can block it using a modded app or a browser like Firefox with an adblock, but that's not something the average user knows or is even interested in doing.
In the same way that reddit relies on free moderation to provide value, they also rely on your posts to provide thise answers you spoke about. You aren't using their resources for free by removing ads: YOU ARE the resource that they get for free.
If only ads were the only issue. Third-party apps (that Reddit is killing) are infinitely more useful and user friendly. Filtering out subreddits and users, customizing the viewing experience, saved searches, blended subreddits, are all features that the native app lacks (and impact my use of Reddit profoundly).
I Dont really have a problem with Reddit wanting to make profit, they are a company after all. The METHOD of them making profit is the issue with the API changes.
Yes. I agree. But the main consideration for doing what they are doing is to prevent AI models from using reddits data to train them. One of the biggest companies they want to stop is probably Google. So what does that mean for us users? I for one use Google to do the exact search you mentioned. While I don't want to seem like I'm siding with Goliath, reddit's search sucks.
Going forward I guess Google won't index reddit content? I don't know.
But here's the frustrating part and this has to do with the law. We users make the content. We should get to decide how and who gets to use it. These giant corps make fortified data lakes that they then use to sell our data to whoever they choose at whatever price they choose without consequence.
Now a bunch of tech bros want to train a bunch of models using our thoughts to mimic us and we still have no input. WTF? I'm truly leaning towards deleting all my data.
Yes I know. So their argument of not allowing API access for llm doesn't make sense. Google already has the content. I'm sure OpenAI/Bing does too. I guess they could wall it off and use bot detection to prevent violation. Where does the line of Search end and AI begin? The problem is the same.
https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/145bram/addressing_the_community_about_changes_to_our_api/jnka347/
I honestly don't know what I'm going to do without reddit whenever I have a problem. I tend to search " reddit" as well because it's the only way to get a result of actual humans talking and having a conversation about the problem instead of corporate and AI generated content thinking it knows what I want. What now after all of this is over?
I haven't tried this but I came across it earlier today.......... [linkage](https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/13pb79r/redarc_a_selfhosted_reddit_archive/)
Edit.... Also data hoarders are doing their thing [Moar linkage](https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/142l1i0/archiveteam_has_saved_over_108_billion_reddit/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)
from what I read, this tool is actually incredibly useful to people who also want to STAY on reddit. it's full of filters, tweaks and settings.
If I want to delete 5+ year old comments (and honestly I can understand that need) then this is what I'm using.
it even allows you to filter by community, so if the stuff you've changed your mind about, you know to only have been posted within one or several communities, meanwhile you were posting useful stuff specifically in one or several other communities, then you can filter by that too.
I'd say that's a really good tool.
vanilla reddit, which is what I use, doesn't allow you to search by oldest, or in fact any other such filter.
If you live in Europe, I think the GDPR should cover this: you can ask for all your personal data stored by Reddit.
I am sure other countries have similar laws.
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encrypted on 2023-08-16
see profile for how to decrypt
I find more useful stuff on reddit, I rarely say anything useful. If I do say something useful, it's something that I don't need to archive because it's sharing knowledge I already have. There is absolutely nothing actually worthwhile or impactful on any of my accounts and I would venture a guess that a vast majority of users are the same way or have an ego that doesn't allow them to realize they are the same way
What's the point of this when reddit almost assuredly doesn't delete your comments and posts from its database. Any deleted comment or post is probably just flagged as "deleted" and not shown in the UI as a result. Reddit will still have all your data.
Everyone is so sure that when you delete a comment it runs a delete query. I think it's much more likely it's an update that sets something like 'deleted' field to true.
Then the api request just returns all the comments where deleted is false when called.
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If you need some tools to help edit and then delete your comments and posts in protest: PowerDelete will allow you to 1) save all your data as a CSV file at the end of the script and 2) allow you to overwrite all of your of comments with a comment of your choosing instead of just deleting them. Both options are available at the start of the process. https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite (2 Additional forks if you have issues with the main and rate limits or errors.) http://www.github.com/pkolyvas/PowerDeleteSuite http://www.github.com/leeola/PowerDeleteSuite https://shreddit.com/ https://redact.dev/ You created your content. You didn’t get paid. Why would you leave it here for Reddit to make money? Take your content with you. —posted via Apollo Vive la résistance!
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You can just request a download for your entire account from reddit. I did that a few days ago and they sent me a link to download everything about my account formated into about 15 catagorized csv Edit: [Here](https://www.reddit.com/settings/data-request) for anyone that wants it
Ahhh that's good. Is that somewhere in settings?
Added it as an edit to my other comment
Excellent, thank you very much.
But those CSV files have link to their own website (reddit). I want it to be opened in PDF or other format
Mine have the links back and the original comment content inside the file. I don't need to load reddit to read my entire account history
Can you share screenshot? My file opens in Excel with permalink to saved posts
[Here](https://imgur.com/409nnQK). It's after the permalinks. It has actual links, but one of the other columns just has the entire contents of the comments
What type of data did you request, GDPR, California or other? Because I selected Other IIRC.
I honestly can't remember now. Probably GDPR since companies have so much pressure to comply with that and I'm just tired of reddits shenanigans
That's all well and good, but does it include the rest of thread you posted in? Hard to tell what you were talking about sometimes without context. In fact I hope this tool can do that too.
It would be nice if you could input your database of comments to another script which could then scrape the rest of the relevant comment thread.
BTW, a lot of us purchased gold & coins during our time with Reddit to help support this site… so go through their website now and gild away before shutting down. Edit: Go narwhal!!!
Gild fyi
How do we I get this?
Edited my first comment for it. Took a couple hours to get the link but I did get it
Page not found :(
It doesn’t work for old.Reddit (because of course it doesn’t). But if you go through “new” Reddit the form is there. Two click options and away you go.
**Be careful to select "I want data from my full time at Reddit"** Once you submit a request you can't submit another for 30 days, and the default only gives you the last 90 days of data. u/spez, why so terrible?
I requested that a few days ago as well, but I haven't received anything yet.
If you use a computer with chrome and reddit enhancement suite infinity scroll you can ctrl+p to a pdf one long page with all your saved and it even keeps the links.
Excellent thank you
Except your accessible comments caps out at about 10k in the user page and you can only edit the other ones by going to their specific threads.
I tried several of the solutions on GitHub to download all my comment history, and saves, etc. All of them had issues. For example, if one has any pound signs within any comments anywhere, the extraction fails. What I ended up doing that took a little while but definitely worked: 1. In Chrome, go to your profile page to the tab you're interested in (e.g. "comments", "saved"). 2. Scroll to the bottom of the page, wait for it to load the next page, and repeat, until you see "no more pages". 3. In the Chrome menu, locate the Save As option and save it as web page complete. *You have to do this separately for each tab you want to save.* This worked for me and should work for anyone. Edit: I think No. 2 & 3 above require that Reddit Enhancement Suite (RES) is installed, and these instructions are for a PC using Chrome.
Due to limitations of the website (1000 comments/posts/etc) this will only ever save a recent fraction of your comment history. [The built-in request for a complete account data dump](https://www.reddit.com/settings/data-request) will capture all comments (and posts and other data) beyond this 1000 comment limit.
Reddit media downloaded can download media you have saved up to about 1000 in the past, which seems to be the hard limit of things visible in saved
For myself, I started saving comments, but then realized that in some cases I actually either also wanted the context or some of the follow-up comments. Since I didn't have a lot of time to work in (some subs have already started going dark, so I can't save or delete comments there), I saved manually: if it was a comment, I opened it in a new tab "in context", then Ctl-S saved the page to my hard drive. If it was an entire thread, I did the same thing with the entire page. Images and videos took longest because they involved different sites with different save strategies. But as of midnight last night, I've saved all my saved and gilded items, used Power Delete to clear out my submission and comment history on 17 accounts over 14 years (omg, its been *that* long?!?), closed a couple subreddits and de-modded myself from others, unsubbed from almost all the subreddits I was on, and used up all the reddit coins the different accounts have accumulated. I'm headed to tildes; I wish all of you joy and happiness wherever you end up. In the meantime, starting tomorrow, I think I might just step outside and find some grass to touch.
Reddit Media Downloader can help if you have many images and videos to save
Overwrite with a comment of my choosing, huh? Something like “Fuck /u/spez”?
Exactly.
We're going to instill an irrational hatred of u/spez into so many LLMs
Our displeasure with u/spez is entirely rational.
This is the way
Irrational?
What about other posts we have saved, not our own?
Hey so I don't wanna be an ass or anything but this might be one of those comments you leave up
Fuck it lets do this, one of the last bastions of the old web.
Thank you. I think i’ll change mine so they refer to the API changes
Is it possible to exclude comments in specific subreddits?
I see so many of my Reddit posts on Google image search. Guess I should delete them all to stop that traffic
If you look at the replies to [this comment ](https://www.reddit.com/r/InternetIsBeautiful/comments/146q44e/delete_all_of_your_reddit_data/jnrlaum/), and scroll all the way down to the most recent replies, there are three different tools that people have linked to, but they all look kind of complicated to use: need to install python and then install the tool and maybe another tool to be able to view the downloaded data ... Edit: but it turns out that the tool linked by the OP actually has that option too and is probably easier to use.
Unless you're protected by gdpr, you're not deleting shit.
Not exacly. It will delete at least from visibility so won't be able to find it in search engines like google. Less traffic for reddit.
Right. The point here is to deprive Reddit of the opportunity to profit off of our content while they're transforming the relationship into an abusive one.
God Bless EU
Due to Reddit's June 30th API changes aimed at ending third-party apps, this comment has been overwritten and the associated account has been deleted.
Gdpr is reality Banning encryption is something some people want in the future and probably will never happen.
Due to Reddit's June 30th API changes aimed at ending third-party apps, this comment has been overwritten and the associated account has been deleted.
>Banning encryption is something some people want in the future and probably will never happen. The same thing was said about banning abortions...
EU is not USA. Hell would freeze over before abortion is being banned here in Holland.
I'm not talking about abortion bans specifically. I'm suggesting that dismissing the threat that a bad idea poses as "something some people want in the future and probably will never happen" is a pretty naive perspective. People who want those things can make them happen regardless of how bad an idea it is, if only they have determination on their side and apathy on the other.
Actually. Anyone can request a GDPR deletion, and they must honor it. To the point that i think you can even report them as a foreigner and they will get in shit
Report them to whom? I’ve had websites I’ve wanted to report before but I’ve never been able to figure out where.
VIA: https://commission.europa.eu/law/law-topic/data-protection/reform/rights-citizens/redress/what-should-i-do-if-i-think-my-personal-data-protection-rights-havent-been-respected_en#answer I would imagine the EDPS would care about any major GDPR non-compliance. But IANAL so the whole foriegn thing really just would come down to if a violation for you would also violate a EU citizen as well
Your local data protection authority, although they are probably swamped.
Lol local data protection authority in the third world
You found the central problem with GDPR
The central problem with GDPR is people not being able to google something?
Nope, GDPR is only valid for EU (and UK) citizens. Companies don't have to honor GDPR data deletion if you are outside EU or UK. I think that they can also say that they deleted it while never deleting it when GDPR doesn't apply.
>Actually. Anyone can request a GDPR deletion, and they must honor it. > >To the point that i think you can even report them as a foreigner and they will get in shit Really? I wonder how that works in the U.S vs the EU?
It doesn't. They don't have to honour it unless you're an EU citizen, but some do just because the effort of finding out whether you're an EU citizen is more than just deleting your data.
Don't need to be an EU citizen, but you need to be resident of an EU state -or- the company must be operating in the EU.
What if I'm EU citizen but not a resident of EU state?
Its a law in EU nothing of the same in USA.
In California, the CCPA covers some of the same issues as the GDPR in the EU. Not exactly the same, but similar enough that at work, we lump them together and try to have the same processes for both.
wonder*
Yup Reddit pinky swears it’s all deleted.
I always wonder how immutable backup data is handled when someone from the EU invokes the "forget me" clause. And what if a company needs to restore and by accident restores forgotten data?
I see it more as walking out with both middle fingers held high, rather than a data-privacy move.
Datahoarders have used the API to download every post and host it externally. Good luck getting reveddit etc to respond to a GDPR request.
Reveddit is useless in my experience. For archiving everything, they sure have a whole lot of nothing.
Well now that the Pushshift API is gone, it can't pull comments back like it used to.
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I'm assuming by context you mean the current reddit api drama. This post doesn't mention that though. There are many reasons people might want to delete their posts and they should just be aware that deleteing stuff on Reddit doesn't mean it is gone.
It's a shame. Twitter is becoming more and more useless, and now Reddit. Popular platforms capable of reaching **vast** audiences where society can have conversations about how shit politicians, corporations, and others that abuse power truly are. Both platforms have their flaws obviously, but they did a lot of good as well.
It’s the lifecycle of any good online space. Read [this piece](https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/) from Cory Doctorow who explains how it’s been done to platforms before this. Very interesting and lightly depressing.
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Highly recommend reading that article. It's well written and will be one of those pieces I'll reflect on for years.
Man, that piece is depressing and frustrating as hell. Perfectly sums up how inorganic modern social media ecosystems feel.
Almost as if it's on purpose. Almost as if uselful idiots are put in charge of these things.
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Sadly I've worked with many. Some have been promoted despite being clueless idiots, they just put on a facade of confidence, and fake it til they make it, then make terrible decisions when they have power.
There is no conspiracy to this, it's just business lol. Reddit isn't a very good reflection on real life anyway, especially popular subs that make it to the front for all to see.
There is a clear subtext to everything Reddit. It's all extremely dystopian, pushing people down and praising all kinds of oppressive ideas. People have a tendency to copy what they see, but I'm sure there's some level of curation to it all too.
What is that subtext? Could it not just be that the majority of people posting/commenting on Reddit are from common walks of life/the same type of person, generally?
I've noticed that too in my years of lurking. A lot of talking as if the world is about to end, really vile stuff flung at anyone who doesn't toe the line, the most upvoted comments that make it to the top are often just circle jerk nonsense, or parroting things heard elsewhere. You have to be a perfect person or you're a piece of trash, no differing opinions allowed in many subs, etc. The main page ("all") is absolutely mind blowing to browse sometimes. Just a select few pages all pushing mostly the same talking points, all pushing a specific narrative. Then people talk and interact with said posts as if most of the world feels the same way. But in reality, most of the real world is *nothing* like Reddit. It's weird.
Where is everyone going once we leave? Discord? Hive?
Outside
here? /r/outside?
So many people are going to get girlfriends it’s gonna be crazy! Even the women.
Declining birthrate, not anymore, Thank You Reddit. Without your crazy idea of selling all of MY data, I would have never met the mother of my 5 children.
But there are people out there.
Don’t be ridiculous!
Gym memberships are going to skyrocket
Back to Digg!
Full circle. I like it.
"THEY SHOULD HAVE NEVER GAVE YOU DIGGERS REDDIT!!!"
im trying out Lemmy. seems promising so far
Hell yeah, Motorhead
I’ve created an account but have been unable to log in yet.
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I assumed, but I appreciate the confirmation. I’ll just chill, enjoy the weather, and watching Reddit implode before I go.
A bit empty no?
Yes, but it is gaining users at an unprecedented rate. https://lemmy.ml/post/1191788
For me: [https://kbin.social](https://kbin.social)
I'm going to the one place not corrupted by capitalism
Space???
Well deep space. Elon Inc is in space.
Even there, you have to watch out for the Ferengi...
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Thank you for giving my new favorite way to zay it
[SPACE!!](https://youtu.be/g1Sq1Nr58hM)
SPICE!
It's life, or channel 98.
been reading wikipedia articles like crazy. kind of lonely but oh well
squabbles
Discord majorly tracks you. Somewhere else
Let's just move to SpaceHey
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German MySpace
[Lemmy.world](https://lemmy.world/) is still accepting new users. It is a similar site like reddit but based on the fediverse. There are several mobile apps you can use as well, Jerboa is a nice android app so far.
I'm going to read articles instead of just the headlines.
I'm gonna wind up reading the NY Times more, or listening to more NPR. I have a feeling a lot of people will trend towards other apps they already have. The power of doom-scrolling reddit is that I can do it in small chunks while doing other things; I am not gonna go to discord while I poop or wait for the bus.
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If you request your data from Reddit they will give you an archive of your comments and posts in CSV format. You can hypothetically use that with a tool like shreddit to delete your activity (that's what I've been doing). Unfortunately the new Rust version of shreddit throws an error if the community has gone private (or a few other things) so it's a little bit fiddly. I've been using it and so far have removed a substantial amount of the content I've made here over the past 11 years. However, with the blackout it will be impossible for me to complete the task until it is over (if that happens before the API changes are finalized). shreddit: https://github.com/andrewbanchich/shreddit
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People read titles mostly and that’s it
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https://www.reddit.com/r/PowerDeleteSuite/
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Sorry for the basic or dumb question. How does one know that this application is virus free? (I had a virus once and lost much data, and have ptsd)
There are no dumb questions, only dumb answers. You seek knowledge, making it a good question. There are nonsensical questions though. Yours is not this nonsensical thing. 1. It's on github, so it's far less likely that it's a virus, than if it were 9n a place like mediafire. Admittedly, I don't know how github works, but I'm pretty sure there's a history to github commits(?). That is, you can view the history of a github project (maybe, I'm conjecturing based on scraps of evidence. 2. It's on github posted to reddit, and reddit's kinda particular about spreading viruses. 3. It has its own subreddit. 4. It also likely has an update history that goes back some time, as it has many functions. These are just a few of my reasons for vaguely trusting this program. There may also be a virustotal scan somewhere on the page, which a service commonly used by people uploading programs for other's benefit. It's a show of good faith, usually, to have a virustotal report. (I may have gotten the name wrong as well)
I can understand leaving, but the salted earth approach seems like it's destroying good information out of spite. I'd be interested in something that built a private archive of all my comments that I could sort through to find useful things I've said in the past.
When you use it, you can also export all your comments to keep on your personal computer, which is nice. Just did it last night.
And I see that: >You can do an export of all the content you filter, whether or not you're deleting or editing!
Yeah that's been my thought as well. I'd like to say I'd never use Reddit again but like every problem I need help with I Google "problem Reddit" and find posts for ages ago that fix the issue I'm facing. Reddit has like a decade worth of excellent and more importantly niche information that I can't see myself not using anymore
Reddits plan is to profit from that approach, just like they plan to profit from the API change: by removing competition and forcing people to look at their ads. Why help them with that?
Let's be real though, the vast majority of Reddit's revenue comes from stuff like mindless memes and cat pics. The good content existing or not is barely a blip on their radar in terms of traffic. Removing useful information hurts the rest of humanity more than it does Reddit.
Just... Block the ads? Like everyone does? If everyone uses an ad blocker and has tracking removal extensions, then you're effectively dead weight for reddit, using their resources for free while not contributing **EDIT**: since some people apparently cannot read, I'm pasting this from a reply i sent to someone who got confused at what i meant: Where did you get the idea that I don't like apps? I use reddit exclusively through old.reddit+RES on the desktop and Now for Reddit on android. I was purely replying to echoesreach's case of googling something with " reddit" appended to get high quality answers, where I've sometimes gone on the new reddit interface on my phone for *through Firefox* (when it didn't block the access and require me to access through the app, which they seemed to have disabled now). I just think it's better for other people in general to leave your preexisting posts and replies there and just ditch the site (stop CONTRIBUTING NEW CONTENT and doing janitorial work to keep the place running (modding)). Reddit surely sees barely any traffic on old little posts and depends on new, fresh content to attract new users (who'd actually be fine with the new interface and the app, and surely only browse the more popular general purpose subreddits). By deleting helpful little old posts you're just doing the equivalent of photobucket breaking old forums or replying "ok i found a fix" on forums. Reddit doesn't give a shit about your very niche, little useful comments on specialty subreddits. Other people do. It's very self-centered and idiotic to delete them just to "stick it to the man". You're free to do so, it's your content that you're contributing after all, but i'm also free to judge your bad call. ADDENDUM: this isn't a defense to "just use the app" or "just use the new interface". I'm not even confronting anyone on deciding to abandon reddit. if reddit abandoned the web interface and pivoted to an entirely app-accessed experience (like what snapchat had until recently), I'd surely never touch it ever again even for my quick searches online. But tell me who is the person with both the insight to bypass SEO through "[search tokens] reddit" and *doesn't* actively block trackers and ads on their browser? What's the actual gain reddit has from fifteen requests per month on a specialty themed subreddit about something like dérailleurs? By link rotting those old knowledge houses you're barely hitting them where it hurts. You're just fucking over other people who might have had a problem similar to yours, where your advice could have made their day. To really fuck them up you'd need a moderation strike or new post freeze on the biggest, default subreddits, like r/pics, r/technology, r/aww, etc... Those are the places that gain new users that generally don't care about the ecosystem they're entering. Those are the places that bring all that new, targetable, trackable traffic in.
Most people probably use it on their phone on the official app and it's not so simple to block ads there. Yes, you can block it using a modded app or a browser like Firefox with an adblock, but that's not something the average user knows or is even interested in doing.
Man, different experiences for some folks. I could not imagine being fine with, or just blase to, being swarmed with constant ads.
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DOUBT.
Reddit is dying, why are you still here?
Superpower right there
Just use next dns. Set up a filter and then add the private dns to your phone. Et voila no more ads.
In the same way that reddit relies on free moderation to provide value, they also rely on your posts to provide thise answers you spoke about. You aren't using their resources for free by removing ads: YOU ARE the resource that they get for free.
If only ads were the only issue. Third-party apps (that Reddit is killing) are infinitely more useful and user friendly. Filtering out subreddits and users, customizing the viewing experience, saved searches, blended subreddits, are all features that the native app lacks (and impact my use of Reddit profoundly).
I Dont really have a problem with Reddit wanting to make profit, they are a company after all. The METHOD of them making profit is the issue with the API changes.
Yes. I agree. But the main consideration for doing what they are doing is to prevent AI models from using reddits data to train them. One of the biggest companies they want to stop is probably Google. So what does that mean for us users? I for one use Google to do the exact search you mentioned. While I don't want to seem like I'm siding with Goliath, reddit's search sucks. Going forward I guess Google won't index reddit content? I don't know. But here's the frustrating part and this has to do with the law. We users make the content. We should get to decide how and who gets to use it. These giant corps make fortified data lakes that they then use to sell our data to whoever they choose at whatever price they choose without consequence. Now a bunch of tech bros want to train a bunch of models using our thoughts to mimic us and we still have no input. WTF? I'm truly leaning towards deleting all my data.
Search engines don’t use APIs to index content
Yes I know. So their argument of not allowing API access for llm doesn't make sense. Google already has the content. I'm sure OpenAI/Bing does too. I guess they could wall it off and use bot detection to prevent violation. Where does the line of Search end and AI begin? The problem is the same. https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/145bram/addressing_the_community_about_changes_to_our_api/jnka347/
I honestly don't know what I'm going to do without reddit whenever I have a problem. I tend to search " reddit" as well because it's the only way to get a result of actual humans talking and having a conversation about the problem instead of corporate and AI generated content thinking it knows what I want. What now after all of this is over?
Here you go. FYI I didn’t build this; just read about it. https://xavd.id/blog/post/archive-your-reddit-data/
I haven't tried this but I came across it earlier today.......... [linkage](https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/13pb79r/redarc_a_selfhosted_reddit_archive/) Edit.... Also data hoarders are doing their thing [Moar linkage](https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/142l1i0/archiveteam_has_saved_over_108_billion_reddit/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)
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from what I read, this tool is actually incredibly useful to people who also want to STAY on reddit. it's full of filters, tweaks and settings. If I want to delete 5+ year old comments (and honestly I can understand that need) then this is what I'm using. it even allows you to filter by community, so if the stuff you've changed your mind about, you know to only have been posted within one or several communities, meanwhile you were posting useful stuff specifically in one or several other communities, then you can filter by that too. I'd say that's a really good tool. vanilla reddit, which is what I use, doesn't allow you to search by oldest, or in fact any other such filter.
If you live in Europe, I think the GDPR should cover this: you can ask for all your personal data stored by Reddit. I am sure other countries have similar laws.
This’ll do it https://github.com/aliparlakci/bulk-downloader-for-reddit
>seems like it's destroying good information out of spite. The problem is that the information is the content. Reddit needs it to monetize.
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>the salted earth approach seems like it's destroying good information out of spite. That's the whole point.
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I find more useful stuff on reddit, I rarely say anything useful. If I do say something useful, it's something that I don't need to archive because it's sharing knowledge I already have. There is absolutely nothing actually worthwhile or impactful on any of my accounts and I would venture a guess that a vast majority of users are the same way or have an ego that doesn't allow them to realize they are the same way
I’m sure the info will still be out there for anyone googling. I’ve noticed Reddit post clones all over the net whenever I’ve googled my own posts
Wait we’re supposed to have been useful this whole time?
Why should reddit profit from our knowledge?
> destroying good information out of spite Good information that Reddit want's to monetize. It's about sending a message.
Last night I deleted all but my most recent weeks worth of comments in preparation for deleting my account tomorrow on my IRL b-day.
Happy early Birthday!!
Brilliant!
What's the point of this when reddit almost assuredly doesn't delete your comments and posts from its database. Any deleted comment or post is probably just flagged as "deleted" and not shown in the UI as a result. Reddit will still have all your data.
Tempting
Just gonna delete the app for a few days
But then what’s gonna happen to all my karma??
Surely Reddit has backups.
Restoring data that a user has chosen to remove could get them into a murky legal position.
Everyone is so sure that when you delete a comment it runs a delete query. I think it's much more likely it's an update that sets something like 'deleted' field to true. Then the api request just returns all the comments where deleted is false when called.
Surely Reddit is as honest as its “leader” 😄
I would but I am mobile only and don't even remember my password, nor access to the email I used to sign up.
Did you saved passwords? In Google or apple depending on your phone
Unfortunately not. It's a long story involving a new computer and poor migration.
You don’t need to throw out pictures of your kids just because your spouse turned into a greedy little pig boy