I keep reading that former users of reddit are scrubbing their old accounts out of spite. So I wanted to know- What is it? Why are people doing it? Does it actually hurt reddit? What are some good bots that will do it for you?

  • TheSpookiestUser@lemmy.world
    24·
    1 year ago

    To do a full scrub of everything you’ve ever posted:

    1. Request your GDPR data package here: https://www.reddit.com/settings/data-request
    2. Wait for it to arrive
    3. Use shreddit to fully delete everything: https://github.com/andrewbanchich/shreddit

    This will take a long time if you’ve posted and commented a lot. This works better than PowerDeleteSuite in my experience, as PDS missed a lot of stuff that was older than a certain point.

    • Multis
      2·
      1 year ago

      I got the data but saved comments and posts only have sub name and permalink. Unlike our comment which also have the saved content text along with permalink. Did your saved comments also have this problem?

    • Multis
      2·
      1 year ago

      I got the data but saved comments and posts only have sub name and permalink. Unlike our comment which also have the saved content text along with permalink. Did your saved comments also have this problem?

        • Multis
          2·
          1 year ago

          I exclusively use reddit on mobile. Hope it is useful for others

          • Equinox@lemmy.blahaj.zone
            1·
            1 year ago

            You could actually still use this (on Android), because you can visit Reddit in the browser, and Firefox allows you to use an addon called “Tampermonkey”.

            But then I don’t know if the json file would be of any use to you, probably not :/