I know you can delete your reddit account, but it mentions that it just deletes your association with them and not the actual content.

Are there any scripts or programs to do that for me?

    • DarkThoughts@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      That thing never worked for me. It sends me to my profile, even when I’m already there, but then it starts with an “Error retreiving CSS from /r/PowerDeleteSuite” message. When I then click on “Proceed” it just gives me this page and nothing else happens: https://i.imgur.com/jVEjfDF.png

      • RandoMcGuvins@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        You’ve got to bookmark the big red button after installing. Open your profile normally then click on your bookmark.

  • tal@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I saw a comment from someone asking people not to do this, even if they’re pretty unhappy with Reddit. The reason he pointed out was that many people across the Internet benefit from the content in comments being available. Blowing that off the Internet is going to hurt people who are looking for information.

    I think that that’s a fair point.

    I was never especially enthusiastic about expertsexchange.com. But I have definitely gotten useful information from it, and it being made inaccessible would (looking at the domain, did) disadvantage me.

    Also, even if one is concerned about reducing value to Reddit as a company and one considers that to be an overriding goal, if I recall reading a past discussion correctly, deleting a comment doesn’t, as I recall, wipe it from Reddit’s database. It just hides it in the web interface from other users. That doesn’t mean that Reddit can’t use it as AI training data or whatnot.

    If Reddit does a Digg-style implosion over this, then I think that the loss of the active userbase is probably a sufficient disincentive. That’s something that cannot be easily replaced. And that doesn’t disadvantage other users on the Internet: it just means that new content will be available on other services.