Show HN: SocialAmnesia – Open-source tool that auto-erases old Reddits/tweets

Post by StellarTabi » Wed, Mar 27, 2019, 9:59 PM UTC

oftenwrong wrote: post #10

throwawaymath wrote: post #9

Unfortunately it's not actually possible to delete reddit comments from being publicly searchable. There are several independent projects which continuously retrieve and store every single comment. For example, PushShift[1] constantly crawls reddit for all new comments and posts. Their entire corpus of historical data is freely available for download. There is even a free service to search through any user's entire c…

That only matters as long as those services are alive and people bother to keep the data.

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Mar 27, 2019, 10:45 PM UTC

Post by agentdrtran » Wed, Mar 27, 2019, 11:23 PM UTC

NickGott wrote: post #8

css wrote: post #4

I have previously used Shame Eraser [0] for this, which uses your Twitter Archive [1] to get all of the status IDs so you don't run into rate limiting problems. I was able to delete 87k tweets in a few hours a couple years ago with it. Is this software just as fast? [0]: https://github.com/benjaminjackson/shame-eraser [1]: https://help.twitter.com/en/managing-your-account/how-to-dow...

Wow, I didn't even think about using a twitter archive to delete everything. This will help me get around the 3.2k API limit problem I was experiencing. I'll work on integrating this.

Post by NickGott » Thu, Mar 28, 2019, 2:22 AM UTC

agentdrtran wrote: post #16

NickGott wrote: post #8

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Wow, I didn't even think about using a twitter archive to delete everything. This will help me get around the 3.2k API limit problem I was experiencing. I'll work on integrating this.

would this work for likes as wlel ?

Post by techntoke » Thu, Mar 28, 2019, 6:23 AM UTC

NickGott wrote: post #7

techntoke wrote: post #3

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Cool idea, but no Linux support and only Twitter and Reddit? Does it work by simulating user activity? I'd be worried about anything using the API that would trigger some internal alert/archival due to thinking it is a bot trying to remove evidence. I think the biggest thing to keep people safe is not to post under their real identity, and try to use a service (VPN, proxy, etc) that doesn't trace back to you. Web bro…

It's built in Python, it's pretty simple for a Linux user to run it (I have instructions on the readme that explain how to do so from the command line). I just haven't built an executable for Linux because of how many different Linux OS there are out there in use. And yeah, only Twitter and Reddit right now, the next plans are to get Instagram working with this.