Thanks. There’s been a lot of talk lately about comments not being properly deleted or Reddit restoring them after deletion. But I figure I can just run PDS multiple times over the next couple of weeks to get the ones that it didn’t catch on the first run. In any case, the “comments” section in my profile comes up empty right now.
I did do a full export through the request form on Reddit before going through with this. I had a total of 13K comments to wipe.
Even after you manually wiped using the links in your archive? If you just used PDS though it might be that reddit did some reindexing to make older stuff show up again, or a sub or a few going unprivate.
Nah it’s 13K comments, I can’t wipe them all manually. It could be as you say that PDS doesn’t see comments in private subs. In that case I’ll need to find something that lets me feed it all the links.
I don't have a solution to your question, but I started deleting my account annually so that it was harder to track me, spy on me, and sell my information.
Before I started doing that, I had an account with 900,000 karma. When you asked for your account to be deleted, the Reddit automated response was 'Are you sure you want to do this? After one month, all of your content will be deleted.' And that's what happened. If I look on reddit, my posts were gone. On google, I could find people mentioning my username but not any actual posts by that account.
TLDR: They used to threaten you with deleting all of your posts, and, based on my experience, they did exactly that with my old account.
It's kinda funny to see them flip to threatening to keep your content.
I would prefer not to spam kbin about this application, but if you think it might be useful to others you are free to post a link in other magazines/fediverse. Thanks for the tip about Obtainium.
I have mixed feelings towards the repost bots. I see no value in pure reposts from Reddit, but I also have no issue with them IF they only post on dedicated instances and mark the account it’s posting from as a bot. Those posts have no engagement. Most people either disable bot posts in settings or block then once they see them. There is nothing wrong with growing communities slowly, but with organic content or only reposting the most interesting stuff.
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