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I just used Power Delete Suite to remove all my comments and submissions
https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite
I am just a drop in the ocean, but I won't be going back to reddit now that's I've discovered the fediverse
this feels like the internet I fell in love with back in the mid 90s with smaller communities and no corporations trying to control what I interact with
oh man I'd love to run that but I feel it'd be wrong to purge all of the technical answers I've posted over the years. I think it's better to pass on that one
You can filter by subreddit in Power Suite Delete, so if your tech answers are in specific subs, you can leave those alone and delete everything else
it had an option to export your comments into a .csv, so theoretically you could post them elsewhere if you want
but that could be a lot of work so I understand just leaving comments as they are
Archiving copies of my Reddit history would be nice, but here's a somewhat idiotic question.
I use commas in copy a lot, so a CSV file sounds like a nightmare. How's that handled?
I believe CSV format has quoting rules. Hope the software understands them. :)
Csv is not always comma delimited. It could also be delimited with a tab, semicolon, or pipe (|)
Isn't a tab delimeted spreadsheet normally called a TSV, as in "Tab-Separated Values"?
Isn't CSV literally Comma-Separated Values?
Sorry, pedantry doesn't die.
A little bit yes, a little bit no
Tab delimited csv are sometimes called tsv, but just as often you'll see csv (tab delimited) as a file type option
See the wiki section on standardization for details.
Csv currently includes the following delimiters:
Comma, space, tab, pipe, or semicolon
Now that you point it out, I remember being able to set delimiters on exports. It's just been ages since I was generating them.
so I just looked at the .csv it spat out, it encloses everything in quotes. here is what it looks like with the actual details changed:
"Title","Body","Permalink","Score","Timestamp UTC","Actions",
"","example comment start, example comment middle, example comment end","https.../","2","1686084708","deleted ",
HOWEVER, looking at this .csv I don't think it actually exported all of my comments. I don't really care about saving my reddit comments but I'm 99% sure it is missing my oldest comments from this account so use at your own risk I suppose
it did a wonderful job of deleting everything though, my account looks totally empty from the profile page
you can enclose the contents of a field in double quotes so that commas withing a field don't break it.
Considering doing what someone else suggested and editing all your comments to explain why you left, to mess with the data it has access to rather than outright removing it
Haha this sounds like such an amazing F you to reddit.
This is what I did, too. I even included a little blurb about Lemmy.
I suspect the account might just get banned and comments deleted, but nevertheless they were (or will be) there for at least a little while, and it removed my participation in reddit's profit machine. It was oh so satisfying to do even if it only had a super small impact.
Just kicked it off on my account, it's currently rewriting every Reddit comment I ever made. Feels good.