I just used redact.dev to delete over 10 years of reddit comments and posts on my 125,904 karma account.
Honestly just kind of done with mass market social media in general at this point, so it wasn't that hard to push me over the edge here.
The nice thing about redact specific to the reddit module is the edit before deletion, that way reddit can't keep monetizing your comments/posts. Useful for people who posted personal content as well, who thought their selfies or artwork or whatever got deleted with account deletion but remained up.
I've been saying, the current leaders are too big to fail or get disrupted by competition, but if there's a silver lining it's that in lieu of a better Reddit happening we may realize it's a good time to start being less online.
Are people worried about their deposits? Was Twitter too big to fail? Myspace? Digg?
less tweets per user (down by 25%)
less time spent on the platform
less overall visits
> side from some advertisers leavin
that's some understatement!
Ad Sales: down by 59%
Upload it to new reddit open source backend, offer that to the app devs at a resasonable price
Fork reddit
https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite
It relies on old.reddit.com, which everyone assumes will be gone not long after the API changes. So use it while you can.
> There is NO NEED to use never ending reddit to load as many comments / submissions. This script uses the actual Reddit API endpoints to edit and delete instead of automating clicks on delete and edit buttons. ahem, reddit overwrite
My plan was to run it on June 30th since it claimed to use the API. I guess since it’s in-browser it could still be using the API and masquerading as the website.