They probably have a monitoring tool watching content being edited. Do not make it too easy for the admin to restore your posts. You can use the python script that is posted around to change part of your posts, not all of them in one bunch, fill them with garbage like AI content (not just “deleted”).
They have enough time to create these monitoring tools, but they have no time building a sane official app, go figure.
I, for one, can’t wait for chatGPT 5.0 to randomly drop “fuck u/spez” into conversations.
How is this going? I started getting serious about this today, and so far it’s just been a real exercise in frustration. It seems if you have too many comments, Reddit hides the really old ones, making them quite difficult to locate.
@earthling is having the same issue. What are you using to access reddit?
I modified the script from https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/16226/Wrote-a-script-to-edit-all-my-posts which uses the python library PRAW. Someone else pointed me to a script in python that’s already using Pushshift though - I am gong to take a look since AFAICT that is the only way to get this accomplished. See https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/47320/PSA-If-you-have-more-than-1000-posts-more-than#entry-comment-202228
I feel like the only way to get everything is to use GDPR archive files. Your reddit profile doesn’t show all of your comments.
Shreddit can use these files, however you have to pay $15 for the feature.
I think shreddit.com is based on someone maintaining and fixing the old python open source shreddit script on github. Both that version and the new rust shreddit support using the GDPR archive files I believe for free, you just have to run it yourself.
The issue is that I may not get my archive file untl after July 1st, at which point I’m worried that these scripts will stop working due to the API changes. Even $15 on shreddt.com may no longer be an option.
My GDPR request came back in a couple days, best to request it ASAP though.
When did you make your request?
I already made mine, still no response yet, almost a week.
Another person reported that they’ve been waiting over a week with no updates yet, https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/46805/Strange-phenomenon-while-deleting-my-comments#entry-comment-199192
I did mine in the end of April, got it on 1 May.
Also, according to the github shreddit, when you use GDPR it uses that “instead of reddit APIs”, so it will basically be opening the links and editing that way. That should be fine against reddit’s API. However I just ran it and it didn’t appear to do much…
Don’t forget to post a couple of new ones too, just so he gets pinged!
I’m sure he turned off pinging for himself a long time ago
but it is funny to imagine him sitting there furiously opening each one and downvoting them as he goes red in the face.
“no!” he mumbles. “i am the internet boy. i am king redditor. no fuck me. fuck you!”
I’m in the process of doing this right now too but I seem to have lost the ability to view comments older than 6 months. Before the API fiasco and the blackouts, I could see all the way back to my first comments/submissions.
Have you noticed that with your account or is it just me?
It’s been like that for a while, for me I could only go back 3 months. Reddit basically limits how much you can see in your profile.
The only complete list is in GDPR archive files.
Before this API fiasco I could see everything with no time limit.
I remember checking months ago, before this was announced, and noticing I could only go back a few months. I think they snuck in the change just before they started doing all of this.
You may be right. Before this, I had no real reason to check that far back. Those fuckers.
That’s unusual. I’m not experiencing that issue. I use RIF. How are you accessing reddit?
I see that issue using old.reddit.com and Apollo.
Can you modify your comments again?
Just to add "also, join to Lemmy’
And join kbin
I‘ve already heard multiple people say they just roll back any edits and deletes.
Isn’t this violating the GDPR? At least for European citizens.
Yep you have the right to delete your data.
Ooh I’m not sure what GDPR is but would including that in the new comments help or is it just bots blindly doing it?
General Data Protection Right. You as the owner of your content have unviolatable rights including the rights of deletion. These rights superseds reddits draconical terms of service who lets be honest nobody reads anyway because they are stupidly long.
You are not the owner of your content, you are the owner of your personally identifying data. So if tied to you then must go…but if you have written somthing that is not personally identifying then Reddit could keep it
The GDPR states that data is classified as “personal data” an individual can be identified directly or indirectly, using online identifiers such as their name, an identification number, IP addresses, or their location data.
And if these online identifiers give information specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural, or social identity of that natural person.
In some circumstances, even information related to a person’s job, hair color, or political opinions could be classed as personal data. Usually, this comes down to the context in which the data was collected and whether a data subject could be directly or indirectly identifiable.
https://www.gdpreu.org/the-regulation/key-concepts/personal-data/
So pretty much any significant discourse you have on a platform would be covered under GDPR as an EU citizen. They also have a list of examples on this page too.
The website also states that „properly anonymized data“ is not affected by the GDPR.
The only things from that list, that should be posted on a public internet forum, are race, gender and political views anyways. And it isn‘t really possible to identify a single user based on these data points
By submitting content to Reddit you also granted them an irrevocable license to use it (according to their ToS) and Art.17, 3a of the GDPR protects data that is not identifiable from deletion
But I guess it‘s worth a try. Maybe their DPO is a nice guy
