I went nuclear and overwrote and then deleted all my content with PDS. Then I deleted my account, and later found out many of my comments are still up. Since I no longer have the account, I’m screwed unless they comply with my CCPA request....
Mods can restrict content, but they cannot truly delete it. It will be hidden from regular users and anonymous folks, but mods themselves and reddit admins can still see the content normally I believe. And if you still had the account, you'd be able to see your own content as well.
Only reddit admins can delete content that belongs to another user, regrettably.
Hey folks! Just realized something that makes Lemmy different from Reddit. Because of the federation, your votes are not technically anonymous on Lemmy. At least, I think....
So I want to edit all my posts and comments before the API changes drop but power delete suite doesn't get all comments and forgets a lot, maybe 50%? I have unchecked all boxes about filtering out subs or gilded comments and stuff....
The original github for PDS, j0be github, has a bug (or more likely an issue that appeared after PDS stopped getting maintained). So it clicks the button too fast, and reddit doesn't allow that, so the result is that some posts miss the edit/delete.
There are other githubs for PDS out there that have this fixed, adding a 5.1s delay between simulated clicks.
Also, PDS is affected by reddit's 1000 indexing limit, so even if you used a fixed version of PDS, it's possible that PDS won't get everything, even if your profile looks like everything been overwritten or deleted, some stuff might have been missed.
Finally, the good news - PDS simulates clicked on the website rather than using the API and should work as long as old dot reddit is up.
With all the talk about posts being lost due to people deleting comments, posts, and subs going private or generally protesting, I wondered if people have an appetite for doing some work to move key bits of reddit history over to kbin/Lemmy for posterity?
Actually even subreddits are affected by the 1000 indexing limit IIUC. So we would have limitations on what content we could discover without an external source.
I guess we could grab from the pushshift torrents and use API access to grab as much as we can of the last couple of months? (Pushshift lost access at the start of May iirc so that's where the gap would start.) Also getting stuff from subs still protesting as private would be a problem.
There used to be - there was a tool that used pushshift to find things even beyond the 1000 limit, but it stopped working after pushshift was shut down last month.
A ton of moderators have been making changes to their subreddits' rules (e.g., only allowing certain posts, going NSFW, loosening rules a ton) to protest without getting kicked out. Do you think this strategy of turning a subreddit into shitposts is effective or not?...
Actually it was the opposite. The one mod team that got reinstated (well sorta) after setting nsfw actually didn’t allow true nsfw content. The bigger examples where subs got demodded did actually allow this
Like many other subreddits, r/Finland is allowing its users to vote for whether or not they should a) reopen as normal, b) remain closed, or c) remain in protest mode....
With the recent news that the r/blind community has migrated to a lemmy instance, I thought now would be a good time to post a quick PSA on image descriptions....
Sadly, no, due to corporate personhood, all other people seeing the log are reddit employees so reddit as a corporate person is basically talking to itself.
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?...
Removing the name isn't enough. Some posts might contain stuff like "my real name is .. and i live in so-and-so city" or "my birthday is today too!" which would all count as PII. This would need to be scrubbed too.
For the "[deleted]" part - there's another way that happens. If you delete your reddit account w/o deleting the comment/post, then your text stays, but "[deleted]" is reported as the user who wrote it.
Someone who have done it manually are reporting undeletes, while I used the API (like a bot) but haven't had this issue. (I did overwrite first and then delete, however.)
Such a stance would be particularly ironic considering one of the reasons that reddit cited for cutting off Pushshift from the API is because they felt Pushshift wasn't honoring requests by reddit users to have their content deleted.
Actually, doubly ironic since Pushshift used to be a common way to get around the 1000 indexing limit on reddit and make sure you actually deleted everything.
Would reporting my “deleted” comments to mods help get them removed?
I went nuclear and overwrote and then deleted all my content with PDS. Then I deleted my account, and later found out many of my comments are still up. Since I no longer have the account, I’m screwed unless they comply with my CCPA request....
If I can't respond, then neither can you!!
While changing all of my comments to "fuck u/spez" in PowerDeleteSuite, I kept getting this message from the AutoMod.
Interesting difference from Reddit: Upvotes/Downvotes are not anonymous
Hey folks! Just realized something that makes Lemmy different from Reddit. Because of the federation, your votes are not technically anonymous on Lemmy. At least, I think....
OC Why doesn't power delete suite edit all my comments?
So I want to edit all my posts and comments before the API changes drop but power delete suite doesn't get all comments and forgets a lot, maybe 50%? I have unchecked all boxes about filtering out subs or gilded comments and stuff....
A debris field was found near the Titanic wreck and experts are currently evaluating the area. (www.bbc.com)
A debris field has been discovered within the search area by an ROV near the Titanic, the US Coast Guard has just announced....
I've transitioned my No Context Reddit Comments account on Twitter to No Context Lemmy Comments! (twitter.com)
as much as I want to move this over to mastodon, there isn't really visibility on twitter as-is, but I'm open to the idea!
They even gone after the sub with 300 subbed now 🙃 (lemmy.world)
Reddit Admin finally have work to do.
OC How would people feel about a new Magazine which is dedicated to archiving Reddit posts, comments and general history?
With all the talk about posts being lost due to people deleting comments, posts, and subs going private or generally protesting, I wondered if people have an appetite for doing some work to move key bits of reddit history over to kbin/Lemmy for posterity?
How to Delete your Reddit Account and All Data under GDPR/CCPA (thomashunter.name)
Have you deleted your Reddit account yet?
Personally I'm waiting for the 30th. I have a dream of crashing their servers with account deletion requests
What do you think of subreddits protesting with rule changes (e.g., only allowing John Oliver)?
A ton of moderators have been making changes to their subreddits' rules (e.g., only allowing certain posts, going NSFW, loosening rules a ton) to protest without getting kicked out. Do you think this strategy of turning a subreddit into shitposts is effective or not?...
Breaking Down Barriers: Starting today, all Subscribers to r/PoliticalHumor are now members of the Landed Gentry. - r/PoliticalHumor (reddit.adminforge.de)
So the mods on r/PoliticalHumor have made E V E R Y O N E subscribed to the subreddit a mod.
Reddit Admins Deny Subreddit Users the Right to Vote for Further Blackouts (teddit.net)
Like many other subreddits, r/Finland is allowing its users to vote for whether or not they should a) reopen as normal, b) remain closed, or c) remain in protest mode....
PSA: Image posts and blind accessibility.
With the recent news that the r/blind community has migrated to a lemmy instance, I thought now would be a good time to post a quick PSA on image descriptions....
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I'm obviously old. what is this "rule" trend I'm seeing everywhere on Lemmy?
As per the title. I'm obviously an old Bustard. Somebody please explain Rule to me.
Delete reddit content yay or nay?
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?...
Reddit is restoring deleted posts and comments
A few days ago I deleted all of my posts and comments from reddit, but today they somehow reappeared....