Just redacted 13 years of interaction and helping people on Reddit
It honestly feels good. I have been mentally divorced from reddit since they doubled down on their API fuckery. I enjoyed my time there but, at this point, I don't have the energy to move anywhere but forward. I'm glad to have stripped Reddit of my content.
Here's to starting another life. I hope we can make it a good one.
Switching from Reddit to Lemmy feels like going from a mega mall to a local farmer’s market; smaller crowd, better conversations, and you know where everything comes from.
all my accounts were suspended. Now I can’t do anything.
Actually, you can still overwrite your comments and delete them. I've done so once with about 30 resurrected out of the blue posts so far since my permanent ban for a month old nonexistent tos violation. (after having used the power delete suite a dozen or so times to overwrite and delete my 14 years of redditing)
I'll keep deleting everything. As a redditor I used to follow suggested, let spez ipo the ashes. I
Hey Mod, go kill yourself. Why don't you try opening your own place during covid era. Why don't you come and be a great CEO? There's plenty of people wanting to post now huh? I hope people like you don't come back to my site because you only care for yourself and not what others are going through. Have a nice life.
Same. Only reason my account hasn't been deleted is so I can continue to purge anything that magically returns, which seems to be a lot so far. I delete comments, everything shows deleted, two days later see a response to a comment that shouldn't exist anymore.
10+ years on Reddit. Sad what happened to it but I'm not about to stick around and sink with that ship. There are subreddits I'll miss but at this point it is what it is.
It would be awesome if there were a way to import all of you post and comment history here while deleting it from there. There are a lot of helpful posts and discussions on reddit that will unfortunately set many back in their searches for different answers.
The metadata.json & recommendation to use datasette to interact with it makes finding old comments super easy. I've been going through all my comments sorted by date, clicking each permalink manually and editing-and-deleting them while bored during the workday (meetings, etc.). It has the added benefit of being incredibly difficult to figure out of I'm a bot or not.
I'm thinking of, instead, just pasting the content into chatgpt and editing the responses to leave it in place.
I kept a CSV of all of my comments and posts via PowerDelete.
Then I messed up running the tool to update all my posts with a helpful message saying to reach out on Lemmy if needed. But I also kept the "delete" checkbox enabled. Ouch.
So eventually the whole script took much longer to run, edited all my posts with that useful text, only to delete them later on. I felt sorry for that case I had the best intentions, but there was no way of going back at that point.
Welcome, I've been here since early june and did the same (12 year account). This place has completely removed any desire for the alien site. For apps and addons check out: https://lemmyapps.netlify.app/
I'm using Redact. I went through and verified that it worked on my posts and comments just in case. Also, be prepared for more messages from mod bots than you ever thought possible.
Edit: Realized I didn't actually link to the tool I'm using. Oopsie poopsie