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There is something very cathartic about deleting 11 years worth of posts and comments....
Going to download my data tomorrow and delete my own 11 years worth.
Sad day, but also very cathartic.
What are you using to download it?
If you use Power Delete Suite there is the option to download your comments before editing (or just download). However it's not great if you've got years of comments. If you click the download button it caps out at about 65k. But if you inspect the button the full export is available in the href so you can copy that into notepad. However the formatting is not great (CSV unfriendly characters are escaped), so it's a bit of a clean up.
There is the alternative of requesting all your data from Reddit itself. A preview I saw from someone else shows a more extensive dataset than you get from PDS. I'm still waiting on my data request (it's only been a day and it can take up 30 days).
Thanks, Power Delete Suite was exactly the type of thing I've been trying to find for the past few days.
I want my contributions out of Reddit's hands, but still leave a protest up. PDS allows me to edit all comments and self posts to "[this user data has been purged]".
https://www.reddit.com/settings/data-request
Is there a difference between the various types of data requests? There are 3 options based on different laws, but do they give different information?
Honestly I was genuinely so sick of reddit that I didn't even bother deleting.
The thing that is killing reddit for me is its endless suggestion of communities that I may want to read. I use reddit to get away from having stuff shoved into my face. I want to explore and find things that are relevant to me or things that are unique and challenging, not have random nonsense shown to me as a way of increasing some silly engagement metric.
that right there is the biggest reason I never swapped to the new reddit redesign. Looks and aesthetics are one thing, but constantly having fake notifications about "you may like this post" or "you may like this community" shoved into my feed with the same notification icon as an actual reply to a post kept getting on my nerves.
Yes that's it. It feels sort of manipulative.