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shreddit: Delete your Reddit data github.com/andrewbanchich/shreddit

1296 sats \ 27 comments \ @kepford 23 Apr meta

This script allows you to purge your Reddit account from data. It updates all posts/comments with dummy text then deletes the content. Reason for this is that if you just deactivate your account your posts are not deleted.

Use at your own discretion. Note: we have no idea if data is actually deleted from backups but based on my testing it does seem to remove content from the site. Of course anyone could crawl the site hoovering it up before you delete it.

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91 sats \ 10 replies \ @nym 23 Apr

Reddit is gone downhill so fast

81 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined 23 Apr

Brain drain to Stacker News

4 sats \ 0 replies \ @nym 23 Apr

Yes!

6 sats \ 7 replies \ @mudbloodvonfrei 23 Apr

How so? I don't use reddit all that much so I'm not really familiar..

6 sats \ 1 reply \ @kingzing131 24 Apr

This video says it all. Reddit has gone downhill couple years back for me.

You get banned extremely easily for saying anything remotely against their mods (in some sub particularly)

6 sats \ 0 replies \ @Fabs 24 Apr

Absolutely, some straight-up banned me for pointing out that they're wrong, and one even banned ME, while THEY were acting against their OWN rules...

It's a shit-show.

6 sats \ 2 replies \ @Cje95 23 Apr

When Reddit decided to go public they went nuts and decided that they needed to enact policies that destroyed their credit with Redditors. A big one dealt with 3rd party apps that were practically destroyed due to data limits unless they would pay Reddit millions of dollars a month. That led to the different subreddits "closing" that made news last year. Reddit responded by changing the policy to enable them to take over these subreddits and kick/ban people and moderators who participated or led the protests. It was wild. They also took a crypto-friendly stance then 180ed it before the IPO to only then randomly embrace BTC and ETH after their IPO. Just a ton of moves like that eroded people's trust in them and since Reddits value is in the data it has generated from people posting if that dries up then they are worthless.

Reddit claimed this was to protect people from AI bots being trained on your data but it really was Reddit being scared that others would monetize the user's data and cut them out. They didn't think to treat their base well during this time and instead just burned bridges left and right with comments from the CEO.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @nym 23 Apr

Exactly this

6 sats \ 0 replies \ @Cje95 23 Apr

It really was a spectacle to be apart of tbh 😂 I mean I used to post and comment a ton in the r/cryptocurrency subreddit and built up quite a stack of MOONS before Reddit rugged us. Granted I still was able to sell the few thousand I had for a couple hundred in ETH but I had a couple grand worth of MOONs I’d earned 😒

6 sats \ 1 reply \ @kepford OP 23 Apr freebie

That's a long story that I don't have the energy to share. I'd say its been declining for years though.

6 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 24 Apr

Reddit peaked in 2008. It was ok in 2012. By 2016 the Marxists took over.

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @Cje95 23 Apr

Omg the whole reason Reddit is worth even a penny is destroyed by this lol and I love to see if after their moves over the last year plus.

55 sats \ 2 replies \ @WeAreAllSatoshi 24 Apr

Notice how it overrides the content before "deleting" it. This is exactly what SN does, too. Posts and comments are replaced with deleted by author to perform a delete, while the underlying item still "exists" in the database. Glad to see this concept of overriding catching on!

Very similar to wiping a hard drive and instead of just setting all bits to 0, setting them to random bits a certain number of times to help reduce the likelihood of recovery.

This could and should be cross-posted to ~privacy

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @kepford OP 24 Apr

Yeah, I should have done that. Not sure how to cross post actually. lol.

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @WeAreAllSatoshi 24 Apr

I don’t think it’s a supported feature yet haha

55 sats \ 1 reply \ @ch0k1 23 Apr

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford OP 23 Apr

I started seeing this a while back. I'm done with Reddit.

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @DEADBEEF 24 Apr

Did that this past summer when they killed third party apps.

RIP Apollo

SN is so much better though. Instead of fake karma I get sweet, sweet sats. In just a few months I have more sats from SN than karma in my 10 years on Reddit.

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @nichro 24 Apr

Did you ever buy a beer with karma though? ;)

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Satosora 24 Apr

Man, reddit is so much fun though. The dark holes that you can march down lol

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @thebitcoinbugle 24 Apr

What happened to Reddit?

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @Zenul_Abidin 24 Apr

Killed third party apps, gated their API, sold user data to train AI models, killed Gold.... I can go on.

Site is plagued with bots too

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Hamstr 24 Apr

Oh whoa, then shreddit is indeed a game changer. Where will the users go then if they leave reddit?

5 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford OP 24 Apr

I don't care. I haven't used it for many years other than getting it in search results. Reddit is dead to me.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @StillStackinAfterAllTheseYears 24 Apr

I still find Reddit useful for niche subreddits, but that's almost entirely just informational stuff. Haven't commented there in years, and no reason to not nuke all my data and stop them from using my data for their needs. Thanks.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @kepford OP 23 Apr

I have some posts that go back many years on Reddit. Shreddit seems to be deleting them based on the CLI output but they still exist on the site. Not sure if this is due to some caching thing they have on Reddit or what.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford OP 23 Apr

I think I've figured it out. I had posts going back 12 years. Just required re-running the script. I'm guessing it scrapes the web site and older posts are probably not loaded by the pager so you have to run it multiple times.