I just deleted my 8 years Reddit account yesterday. With the help of some lines of code, still took me roughly an hour to wipe out all my posts and comments all these years. It does feel bittersweet but I don't feel the need to leave behind all my tracks on Reddit. After all they don't get to have that. This is what I used to delete my data on Reddit, if someone needs that here's the link: https://www.guidingtech.com/how-to-delete-all-reddit-comments-posts/
this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2023
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I have 650k comment karma on my profile. Time to delete my comments that were so helpful.
Isn't it a bit egotistical to watch how Google rates your Reddit comments? Maybe you deserve to get them deleted if you treat them as a means of domination rather than information.
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Did the same, but it feels wrong. Months/Years later someone build a transition for bring all your reddit stuff to Lemmy. But it's already lost.
The reason people keep claiming posts are being "restored" by Reddit or "missed" by these tools is that those posts were deleted while many subs were private. Which means the posts/comments were hidden. When the subs came back under restricted/public, then hidden posts/comments became visible again.
On top of that, it's been alleged that Reddit's weird caching limits the display of your posts/comments to a surprisingly low number (I've seen 1000 and 5000). Meaning stuff older than that is simply not locatable other than through third-party search tools. I haven't seen concrete proof of this, though, and I definitely saw 12yo comments being found and deleted when I ran tools on my account. It IS, however, clear that Reddit does not respect data privacy laws that require they delete all posts on a user's request. They demand the user do it themselves while simultaneously not providing tools to do so.
My posts/comments shouldn't have been viewable in my profile if the sub was hidden or private. I didn't post much, thankfully, but the edit-then-delete script I used was hit or miss. When everything came back, many didn't contain the new edited text, but had the old actual post contents.
After my stuff came back the first time I manually edited them all to say [removed] then deleted them.
I had to do it a total of 4 times. It would say it was deleted on my end and my profile page would be empty, then in 1 or 2 days they would be back (most still saying [removed], at least). All the subs had been made public again, so there's no excuse for it.
The last time I did it, I spread it out over a week, occasionally deleting one then leaving it alone for a couple hours. The few that returned in their entirety I would edit with the [removed] text then wait again. They haven't shown back up yet but I'm going to keep checking. We'll see.
I also noticed the up/down ration changed every time I refreshed the page, even if it was just minutes apart. They may be having issues with so many post removals going on.
Anyway.. 4 attempts to delete my posts is 3 too many.
EU's GDPR officers will be very interested in Reddit's documented inability to delete EU Reddit users' personal data.
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Thanks for the heads up, this is like the 10th time ive had to run power delete.
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Will Google searches eventually link to lemmy? I don't really know how this site works, but I would assume that could grow the site more than anything else would.
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I wanted to look up how to delete all the content I posted on reddit over the years. I do not find it. When I google "how do I delete all my reddit posts" I mostly get AI generated no name sites, ad-infested "Wiki-How" ... and reddit posts, which are most likely the most helpfull .... does not look like there is a "delete" button I can click, have to install scripts or something ... Fuck.