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It took a while but I finally got my Reddit data export in c/RedditMigration@kbin.social

[–] gerowen@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah my whole export was only like 3MB of CSV files, so I'm guessing that any media you upload just gets dumped into a giant bucket with everybody else's stuff and then referenced by your post or whatever. Kinda makes you wonder if that stuff gets deleted if you delete your account.

It took a while but I finally got my Reddit data export in c/RedditMigration@kbin.social

[–] gerowen@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

I made no changes to any of my posts or comments, though I haven't been particularly active on Reddit. It has been un-usable for a long time for me because it seemed like every time I tried to make an original, thoughtful post, it would get auto-deleted by a bot because I didn't include the correct "flair" or some other non-sensical bull, yet others could just spam those same subreddits with memes and nonsense without issue. I would comment occasionally, but that's about it.

It might be a good idea though to go through and check my comments to see if anything looks out of sorts or was edited without my permission.

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It took a while but I finally got my Reddit data export (kbin.social)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by gerowen@kbin.social to c/RedditMigration@kbin.social

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It took several weeks but I finally got my Reddit data export for my account. If it wasn't already obvious, the direct messages there are not encrypted in any meaningful way. One interesting variable I found was in the file named "statistics", there's a variable named "is_deleted" which is set to false. This makes me wonder if, when you "delete" your account, they just flip this variable to disable login but still retain all of your user data. The file names are pretty self explanatory on what they contain, but the if you're curious, the files in the export are:

account_gender.csv
approved_submitter_subreddits.csv
chat_history.csv
checkfile.csv
comment_headers.csv
comments.csv
comment_votes.csv
drafts.csv
filelist.txt
friends.csv
gilded_comments.csv
gilded_posts.csv
hidden_posts.csv
ip_logs.csv
linked_identities.csv
linked_phone_number.csv
message_headers.csv
messages.csv
moderated_subreddits.csv
multireddits.csv
poll_votes.csv
post_headers.csv
posts.csv
post_votes.csv
reddit_gold_information.csv
saved_comments.csv
saved_posts.csv
scheduled_posts.csv
statistics.csv
subscribed_subreddits.csv
twitter.csv
user_preferences.csv

Musk is undeniably just trying to run twitter into the ground at this point. in c/mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world

[–] gerowen@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago

He's impulsive and doesn't know when to shut up. I got the distinct impression that, initially, he was absolutely not serious about buying Twitter. It was a joke/jest. BUT, because his antics affected their stock price he actually got forced into the purchase and now he's desperately trying to figure out how to make the purchase worth what he actually paid, which is fine and all, except he seems to be leading by impulse, not by consensus or logic. He wakes up in the morning, has some random ass idea and implements it without any oversight. Even his new CEO straight up admitted that she is basically a straw man CEO who will offer no friction to anything Elon wants to do.