Seems that if we delay deleting content to after July 1st it might be nigh on impossible. As traffic from goggle to old posts will still benefit reddit should we delete or not?
I know I may be in the minority, but I've decided to not delete anything from my account. None of my posts or comments have a massive amount of karma and Reddit was really the only social media that I actively participated in. Call me sentimental or stupid but I don't want that record to completely go away.
The billing cycle for anyone that's using the API, which is also when many developers will simply be shutting down their apps/software to not incur costs.
Definitely was my preference to delete all my past comments and posts, ended up using a chrome plugin that changes all the comments to blank, and then deleted them. Pretty straightforward.
I deleted two accounts, and all comments, votes, and posts. One 8 and one 12 year old. With over 100k Karma combined. I'd recommend it to anyone who cares about the situation.
I've actually done it in the past that every once in a while I just purge my comment history entirely. I'm gonna be pretty pissed off if I can't do this in the future...
I went back to do this last week, and it was just too tedious to get all the comments. Went ahead and deleted all accounts after removing posts individually.
I just think the mass deletion of content is such a loss for the internet as a whole. I wish instead of people supporting deleting Reddit comments, there was a way for individuals to upload a history of their comments onto a Lemmy instance. I just think deleting all of your reddit contribution is a massive loss for the Internet, regardless of the significance of the contribution.
I have my Reddit GDPR export and could upload it somewhere, but it's almost entirely meaningless without context. I think there were some threads on r/DataHoarder about grabbing context as well, shortly before blackouts.
I thought about using one of the shredder utilities to edit my comments and mention where they could be found, but a lot of subreddits apparently watch for that kind of thing and remove comments with links.
I am deleting my messages and posts right after I receive my requested data and information from reddit. Even If i have to do it manually. You can do the same by following these instructions
They have 30 days to comply so it wouldnt necessarily burn their servers but its still a nice middle finger before saying goodbye. Also I am truly curious what data about me they have managed to produce
I'm thinking hard about it, and I'm leaning towards delete.
If it was just monitization I don't think I'd care much, but Reddit is also treating mods and contributors with contempt and I don't think they deserve the chance to reward themselves for it.
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