And if you have a lot of old comments and posts, it’s a long and manual process. The automated tools used around the APIcalypse were only able to access about a year of content.
At the time, Reddit was also hiding older posts from history, so it would seem like all of your content was successfully deleted, before making them visible again later on. This is what gave users the impression that their years-old posts were being undeleted, when in fact they were never really deleted in the first place.
To delete posts/comments beyond what the automated tools were able to do, you basically have to edit them and delete them one by one. This is the only reason I haven’t fully deleted my Reddit account yet, because all of my stuff will still be on there, just under the name [deleted]. I try to delete about 200 things a week, but it’s a long process when you have 13 years of content to work through.
Cheers! Hope it works well, I’ve been awaiting the day where I would be able to click on my account name and see only a vast, empty desert of content that once was.
And if you have a lot of old comments and posts, it’s a long and manual process. The automated tools used around the APIcalypse were only able to access about a year of content.
At the time, Reddit was also hiding older posts from history, so it would seem like all of your content was successfully deleted, before making them visible again later on. This is what gave users the impression that their years-old posts were being undeleted, when in fact they were never really deleted in the first place.
To delete posts/comments beyond what the automated tools were able to do, you basically have to edit them and delete them one by one. This is the only reason I haven’t fully deleted my Reddit account yet, because all of my stuff will still be on there, just under the name [deleted]. I try to delete about 200 things a week, but it’s a long process when you have 13 years of content to work through.
The automated tools are more effective if you get the GDPR data from reddit and point the tool towards it
Point me at one and I’d love to put an end to this Sisyphean task. I have my GDPR data at the ready.
I used this one IIRC: https://github.com/Jelly-Pudding/ereddicator
Cheers! Hope it works well, I’ve been awaiting the day where I would be able to click on my account name and see only a vast, empty desert of content that once was.