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If you are thinking about deleting your Reddit's history (comments, posts, etc), do it before the end of this month (github.com)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1180367

There are tools out there that help with this, but the better ones like the one I linked use the API.

I don't know what will happen to them next month, but if you are thinking about it, keep in mind that they may not be around or work like they do today, and you may have to use other more convoluted tools.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Very dumb question on my part, but why would someone do this as opposed to just deleting account or simply never logging in again? Deleting my history never occurred to me and I have one super old account (inactive) and my current is about 8 years old

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Doubt this does anything special If you're not in gdpr or the CA version reddit can just lie to you about deleting anything

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

I agree - generally speaking they're almost certainly not actually deleting anything when they say they are, just flagging it as gone. And edits are probably stored as diffs. AND so many people have been scraping Reddit for long enough now that there's full copies of everything you've posted out there already.

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