Used a script to overwrite old comments to finalize my switch to Lemmy, and got this message from one of the subreddit that i commented.
Yes my intention is to annoy and create awareness. After i delete my account, Reddit is not going to get to keep my pearls of wisdom, or shenanigans. I hope more people edit their old comments to something like [moved to Lemmy].
I did the same before also deleting the comments and posts and some of the subreddits perm banned my user. I deleted the user a few days later anyway so no loss.
Are the automated tools still working? I couldn’t get them to work on the last few weeks of comments in my remaining account.
There are tools working purely from the browser in Javascript. That’s almost impossible for them to block those. The only thing they can do is detect events and react to it.
And then cry when people browse Reddit through archive.org, where they can’t display ads.
I remember an article (or maybe it was a comment on an article) from a supposed former reddit dev a couple weeks ago that their database caching for user comments doesn’t actually keep track of every comment you make, beyond a certain point older items will be dropped off the list as new ones are added. So for old accounts, not everything will be listed when looking at your comment list, which is how these tools usually work. The comments are all there in the database obviously and can be loaded when opening a page, but the cache for your account only allows X number of items to be referenced with old items dropping off as new ones are added. When you go to your account comment list it just looks up that cached reference list, it doesn’t actually search the database for everything. So on an old account it will have a lot missing because things have fallen off that reference list. Wish I could find that article of comment now to reference though.
this does seem to make sense, power delete suite removed some 1300 comments from my account, but gdpr request contains some 9500 in my case
IIRC, it’s 1,000 comments. But, I cleaned my accounts regularly and switched to new alts every six months, so I just need to overwrite ~50 comments and a couple of posts made since the start of June.
It’s a tiny bit laborious but doable.
Unfortunately, for folks who waited to overwrite and wipe until after the API changes, I haven’t seen any mass-delete tools that are still working.
I wrote a simple updater that uses your GDPR request data to drive a browser automation tool (Puppeteer) to update your entire account history. It’s in Dart and should be easy to adapt into other languages https://lemmy.world/post/959507
The 1,000 comment limit refers to your profile - each of the New, Hot, Top & Controversial lists max out at 1000 comments. So when you use tools like PowerDeleteSuite they use these lists, and when they’re done they won’t have gotten everything.
To get everything you need to use the GDPR files which include links to every comment. Shreddit used to be able to take these, however I imagine it doesn’t work anymore with the API change. You can still use the links manually to go to each older comment and edit them, and maybe someone will modify PowerDeleteSuite or some other tool which works via website scraping rather than an API key.
There’s this if anyone needs a starter: https://lemmy.world/post/959507
Now, if only reddit would actually reply with my GDPR requests…
It took them a worryingly long time to process mine, but they did reply just before Fleddit day, so I think it’s incompetence rather than conspiracy.
No I had my reply pretty quickly in May. Now, they’re just stalling.
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Aren’t you the same person who suggested weaponizing images of abuse?
Neither that nor your above suggestion to slather slurs are cool, acceptable, laudable, or in any way good ideas.
This is not the way people who get on with their fellow humans behave.
Listen to Batman and stop acting this way.
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Do you want to talk about why you feel this way?
You’re clearly lashing out at something.
Why does it have to be something wrong to fuck shit up for fun? Im not hurting anyone, im not bullying a individual person (except u/awkwardturtle but that asshole started) im not making actually harmful posts or comments, im just having a good time by disturbing your good time a little.
There is no logical reasoning why i shouldn’t do it except that you don’t like it, wich is kinda a you problem.
It’s this right here:
Everything is acceptable on the internet because there is nothing that can stop people like me. There is no moral and no justice
That sounds like someone who has experienced powerlessness and reacts to cruelty visited upon them by becoming cruelty.
Someone who responds to the injustice and no doubt indignation they feel when aggrieved by things and people more powerful than they while people and procedures who’re supposed prevent that sort of thing say nothing.Maybe your father hits you. Maybe you have gender issues. Maybe you are just an asshole.
Maybe there is something about yourself you hate and so you lash out inappropriately in the hope some dope will punch you in the face. How very Tyler Durden. Perhaps you want to feel pain. Perhaps you can’t stand standing on the outside while seemingly the whole world pummels down on you so you decide to fuck yourself up to at least join in on the fun.
I mean, for all you brag of your detached stature, your blasé laissez-fuck-shit-attitude, your own
im just having a good time by disturbing your
indicates you’re reaching out for connection.
You’re dismissive and didactic to we plebes who act distracted by your stroking abstract structures of oppression
but the lesson here (if less than clear) is you say things in the want we hear.
You want us to acknowledge you, to see you, to react.You come off as real lonely.
There is no logical reasoning why i shouldn’t
First of all, “logical reasoning”. Trying to PA=¬O¬A your way to justifying being an asshole. Shut up, nerd.
Second you’re begging the question that you should.
Even presuming your position supposes you get a gain from your shitty behavior.
What is that gain? Is giggles all you get from this?You don’t think the negative cost of people not taking kindly to you is worth missing on whatever you get from these tantrums, so you either don’t care what people think, or you think you’ve already lost whatever chance you had at a positive connection already.
Since “trying to get a rise” is caring what someone thinks (and wanting it to be “…asshole.”) it isn’t the first one.
Would you like to tell me why you think people wouldn’t like you even if you weren’t a shit?If you felt comfortable with the centre you wouldn’t be so edgy, so why don’t you tell me what it is about people that makes you want to engineer rejection and reaction from them?
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Just block and not feed the troll.
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Ooh my first fediverse block! What a sad individual. Anyways…
Do you want to talk about why you feel this way?
You’re clearly lashing out at something.
Very helpful thanks
Holy shit what is this level of cringe!!??
Kinda cringe, ngl
Trolling was pathetic then and it’s pathetic now. Most of us grew out of that phase we had ten years ago.
And? Most of them now make actually harmful shit, be glad i don’t do that.
Yeah, that’s the type of immature and childish response that completely ignores the entire situation I expect from a “troll”.
Pathetic. Have fun with that.
What situation?
Me wanting the reddit admins to delete peoples accounts for a good reason?
Oh and i have fun.
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After i delete my account, Reddit is not going to get to keep my pearls of wisdom, or shenanigans.
They specifically will though. If you delete your account, comments are retained without an associated user, for others to continue to view and use.
Thus why they’re using a script to edit and save their comments before deleting them. Reddit only saves the most recent edit on deleted posts.
Better to just edit I think, in my experience edited comments don’t get restored however edited and deleted have been coming back.
If it’s entirely pointless… then why is there a bot to stop it?
It’s entirely pointless to stop something that is entirely pointless.
Ding ding ding
They say it’s pointless because it’s archived on other sites. The point is that Reddit specifically can’t profit off it
It’s not just corporate reddit though. Consider the time and effort invested in these communities. Obviously I left because I don’t want to support reddit (and because their non 3rd party interface is almost unusable), but there are mods of small communities that have put thousands of hours into building up these subs.
Ask Historians is a perfect example of a sub that gets punished by modified comments (and they have been highly supportive of protests). They are so heavily moderated that every comment is 100% on topic and each comment lost makes the hard work they put in less worthwhile. Now each person has a right to delete their own content, but it sucks to write a 3 page essay response with citations only to have the context be removed to spite reddit. The mods and contributors of the subs are suffering too, and at a time when maintaining the community is much harder.
It’s Huffmann’s fault for being a cunt. HE caused this. Could have worked it out with he devs and not lied. Blame him.
I agree completely, Reddit screwed up. Huffman is a petty tool and he’s running a lot of great communities.
My point is that it does hurt people who aren’t Reddit/Huffman. Mods and community members who have created and curated tons of content. It’s hundreds of hours of work to migrate that info, and not everyone will come with you if you do.
It was an easy choice for me because I’m not invested, but for those that have more at stake, moving platforms is a much bigger sacrifice.
The people who stayed aren’t necessarily wrong or bad, they could have good reasons and harder choices than shine of us here who lose very little, or maybe even some who lose a lot.
Such a funny move from tidder😁
Reminder that just because it came from a mod or admin, doesn’t mean they aren’t completely and entirely wrong. Whoever programmed this response just objectively wrong here. Sometimes it’ll just straight perma ban you instead knowing you’re trying to mass delete your posts lol.
Bonkers!! I can’t believe how angry so many people are about people switching platforms 🙄
I mean it seems pretty clear to me that it’s not the switching platforms bit that they’re annoyed with.
Waybackmachine has your comments anyway so there’s no point in deleting them.
The hottest of hot takes.
So people can have the benefit of old helpful comments without having to visit reddit? Sounds like a plus.
Yup. Totally doesn’t sound desperate.
Yeah let me just fire up the ol wayback machine every time I want to read a reddit comment lol
Worth noting that if you use Reddit exclusively via wayback and go back like a decade you’ll probably have a more enjoyable experience.
When half the content was Advice Animals? Debatable.
Or “all the things”, “bacon narwhal midnight”, and weird places to cum stories?
Back in my day we had to read through a 10-panel rage comic just to get the dumbest take imaginable
Do you even ice soap chili?
/r/fuuuuuu I think was called or something was one of the first subs I subscribed to back in the day, then I unsubbed after some time because I realized it was draining my IQ
I’m still trying to figure out why I’m nostalgic for those days.
You mean “the bullshittiest of fake takes”
It’s not a hot take if they’re lying
The mods on the history sub have always been shit. No surprise they’d setup a smarmy bot response.
That’s a canned response. I would regularly overwrite and delete my comments but some subs take offense to it for whatever reason. They either don’t get the point or they are trying to gaslight you with “it doesn’t matter anyway” bullshit
I’d be curious as to who the mod team is. That automod is very defensive and seems to be written from a pro spez point of view.
But I’m not going back to Reddit to check.
/r/History is filled with a bunch of Admin bootlickers anyway, so it wouldn’t surprise me if they haven’t seen too much forced mod turnover post-blackout.
You should tell them you’d rather people go to those other websites to see your comments than to give Reddit their business.
I wouldn’t bother writing replies to a bot, but if it makes you feel better.
It says you can contact the moderators if you have any questions right at the bottom.
I’ll be honest, I’m a little confused. Is it removing the comment you overwrote, or another comment?
I got insta banned from /r/steamdeck when I overwrote a comment. I didn’t actually break any sub rules as far as I could tell… I messaged them to thank them for helping to galvanize my decision to vacate the premises
You’re hurting users more than Reddit, and it’s totally not like Archive.is and the Internet Archive exists
There’s no Reddit without users. And archive sites don’t allow Reddit to profit from ads. The information will still be out there somewhere if someone wants to read your old posts badly enough, but Reddit won’t profit from your contributions - which is exactly what they should expect after showing their utter disregard for the people who made them money.
> There’s no Reddit without users. And archive sites don’t allow Reddit to profit from ads.
And? Do you really think enough users will move to Lemmy that significantly hurts Reddit?
> The information will still be out there somewhere if someone wants to read your old posts badly enough, but Reddit won’t profit from your contributions
They’ll profit from somebody else’s contributions, and they can easily revert any deletions made by OP.
Somebody needs to read up on the history of Digg.
>implying I don’t already know
I have read up on the history of Digg multiple times, do better next time :marseysleep:
So wait, if they can revert any changes then how are things being harmed?
That’s the point… we don’t want them accessing our comments on Reddit. Nobody gives a fuck about our comments appearing on some other archive website… What a ridiculous take someone programmed into this bot.
