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Please check that your comments and accounts stay deleted!

It seems Reddit is restoring deleted comments.

Just make sure to go back in a day or two to make sure your comments/posts stay deleted. Reddit restored all my posts/comments that I edited using Power Delete Suite back to their original content.

13 years here, I nuked all the comments with Redact, but today I checked my comments on reddit and I still have a few dozens, so I renuked them. I will see tomorrow if some comments reappear?

I think I'll keep my account, but logoff from everywhere

EDIT: I think all the comments behind private sub cannot be deleted, this is why this morning the tool found new ones

My account was 14 years old and I had that same feeling. I've been pretty disgruntled with Reddit for nearly a decade, so I'm more surprised that I managed to stick with that site for so long.

I am struggling to go and do it myself but this helps seeing someone with 12 years of history. Would love to be able to download the 10,000+ pages of stuff I wrote though to not lose it forever.

I deleted my 11 year old reddit account just an hour ago. I first overwrote all comments with one promoting lemmy with instructions on how to choose an instance.

I did this earlier this week to my 10yr old account. I used redact to delete my posts and comments as well. I didnt think it was fair since I'm one of those Apollo users.

I can't bring myself to delete stuff like that, in the same way that I don't like throwing away books. If I post less on Reddit so be it, and if I eventually stop then meh, but I want my post history to still be there.

I nuked a 13- and an 11-year old account yesterday after commenting over then deleting each comment. I'm a bit sad, but if I'm honest, I've been wanting a reason to drop reddit for a while now. It just hasn't been the same in a long time. It's still young here, but I like what this has the potential to become rather than what might have been if things were different over there. Ever onward!

can anyone recommend an easy tool to do this? I don't want to leave anything behind they can scrape and profit from.

No desire to download my data (just more crap to have) and seeing posts as they are deleted is likely one more time than I would have looked at them otherwise.

I also did this, 6 years old account, all gone.
It was a great decision cause now I can contribute here

Geez you didn’t save the content beforehand? I would absolutely have found a way to archive that stuff first

As much as I'm unhappy with reddit I don't think I could bring myself to delete my comments. Seems like a loss for the internet at large to do so, nothing more frustrating to be searching for help on a topic only to find that the solution was removed.

Ya, you know I haven't opened reddit since the blackout started. I removed "slide" from my phones home screen.

It's kinda sad, but I'm rediscovering RSS, now I've found kbin, and Im fine. I think not mindlessly scrolling reddit after my main interests have been covered has been nice for my brain.

I deleted all of the posts and comments on my 10 year-old account. After seeing what established Reddit accounts are going for on eBay, I'm considering selling.

Radical problems require radical solutions.

I wasn't an active Redditor, and so far I like this community much better. Might change as the place gets more and more inhibitors.

doing the same as we speak. My replacement text is "Moved to Lemmy because Reddit has become greedy with data generated by their community"

I don’t delete my data (posts) because once you google a problem and you realize that a solution that you are looking at is written by you few years back you know you do a good job and you could be saving your future self an headache.

Over a decade on my account, not sure the actual year. I won't be nuking my account, personally. I'm happy with kbin for now and haven't opened reddit since Monday.

here's a question, wouldn't it be more impactful to encourage users to redact with a protest statement promoting fedverse first?

assuming they're doing a 30 day backup scheme then this becomes part of their working set going forward. messing with the data in this way especially if we can do it in volume might make it harder for LLMs to extract useful information from our noise.

we then can then start deleting our posts as a second protest after that.

thoughts?

Beautifully written, and moving. I think I understand how you feel, and I empathize with you.

For those asking, I used redact.dev to delete my stuff. It's available on lots of platforms including mobile.