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Nuking old Reddit accounts (lemm.ee)
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I took part in the Reddit blackout a month ago, and accessed Reddit through Apollo. After the blackout I looked at Reddit a handful of times and then let my association with Reddit die with Apollo.

I haven’t been there since, but now I feel as though I should have deleted my account of 7 years, that way everything I ever contributed will be gone.

However, to accomplish this as you all know I should delete all my posts first and edit all comments. I was wondering what people used to do this. I want everything to read “Edit: moved to Lemmy”.

I’m sure others migrating here have the same question. Thanks.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Eh it depends. When we had one of our subs locked there in protest we constantly received modmail from random google searchers asking to be let in so they can read random posts they found via google. The funny thing is many of those posts were things I had commented answers in. Makes me wonder how many of those google searches are now dead ends after the comment answer was deleted.

On the other side, back when I was a mod there I used to point people to earlier posts that discussed whatever question was being asked & sometimes people would complain that the earlier posts were useless since other people deleted their own comment answers in them. Even before Reddit protests people would routinely wipe their Reddit history, as a mod it was easy to see it happen in real time.

So overall people deleting their own comments does have some effect on making searches pointing to Reddit, or within Reddit, kind of useless.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I get this but still feeling in debt looks bad. This feel of begin necessary that makes impossible to delete and go on. I know sometimes reddit comments offert good Info's, still this can't be mean that a single website as to be the repository of all knowage, expeccialy if that website is corrupted. That is the check to avoid.