I’m just this guy, you know?

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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • If you’re considering leaving Reddit, consider also salting the earth on your way out.

    Check out PowerDeleteSuite, a Chrome* plugin that can edit/delete posts in a user’s history. https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite

    Just follow the install instructions on the page and let it rip. You can act on or exempt specific subs, act on age, exempt by status, etc. It will also export deleted and modified comments to a CSV for your own use.

    I nuked my accounts, editing all comments to “This comment has been deleted in protest of the Reddit API changes of June 2023. Consider visiting Lemmy.world or Kbin.social for an alternative news source.”

    I’ll probably go back in on the 29th or 30th and delete everything before closing the accounts.

    worked on Chromium for me. Never had success with Firefox, and I don’t touch Edge.
    

    (Disclaimer: I have no affiliation with this project)

    Discussion: I arrived at posting this after some soul-searching about destroying inforamtion. In the end, my contributions were derivative from still-extant and viable sources, while I consider Reddit to be a lost cause. I decided it was more abhorrent to me that they continue to profit off the back of my freely-contributed content than to reclaim my contributions, and rehost those contributions at a later date under a more friendly banner.

    That was my calculus. You, reader, are welcome respectfully to disagree.


  • Check out PowerDeleteSuite, a Chrome* plugin that can edit/delete posts in a user’s history. https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite

    Just follow the install instructions on the page and let it rip. You can act on or exempt specific subs, act on age, exempt by status, etc. It will also export deleted and modified comments to a CSV for your own use.

    I nuked my accounts, editing all comments to “This comment has been deleted in protest of the Reddit API changes of June 2023. Consider visiting Lemmy.world or Kbin.social for an alternative news source.”

    I’ll probably go back in on the 29th or 30th and delete everything before closing the accounts.

    • worked on Chromium for me. Never had success with Firefox, and I don’t touch Edge.


  • Eh. I did open reddit by accident a two times today myself, idly tapping the Relay icon and swiping it away on the loading screen.

    But… I’ve also nuked my post history on all of my alts. My main account was a contributor on some tech subs where, while I abhor reddit making money off my freely given contributions, I also abhor the wanton destruction of freely exchanged information at a cultural level.

    I’m considering how I could spare those posts and nuke the rest while I figure how to rehost that content elsewhere. Then again, I got that same info from somewhere else, and those sites still work so maybe the argument is academic.

    Even I don’t know what I’m about to do yet. Interesting times, indeed.


  • I can’t blame the guy for protecting his paycheck and trying to make the situation work. This all came suddenly and everyone has IRL expenses to cover. I can’t afford to take a paycut on a purely principled stand, and I’d wager most of us can’t.

    On the thread where he shared his thoughts on this plan, he did not rule out the idea of developing for fediverse platforms. He has great vision for UI/UX that I’d welcome over here.

    Give it time and let things play out.

    (edit: spelling)