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Power Delete Suite for Reddit

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Re: Power Delete Suite for Reddit

#21

Post by rocket_surgeron »

medellin wrote: post #10
afavour wrote: post #4

Call me cynical but I’m surprised how widespread the opinion is that Reddit is on a death spiral. It might end up being another Digg but I can’t help but feel like this is going to be a blip and that Reddit will by and large continue just fine. If anything I think this is the moment that Reddit finally separates from the “geeky” crowd that originally birthed it (I remember the days when Reddit was the nerdier alterna…

Who knows but i already deleted all my accounts and delete the comments earlier this year. The site is only good for finding reviews on products but companies figured that out and game it now as well. I hope reddit dies if for no other reason than the less social media the better

>The site is only good for finding reviews on products but companies figured that out and game it now as well.

You're using it wrong. Reddit is the only place, in the history of the entire internet, that has successfully collected all of my interests into one location.

Astrophotography, Astronomy, Art Deco, Scuba, Amateur Radio, Radio Astronomy, Motorcycling (specifically Moto Guzzi bikes), EMS/Firefighting, Vintage Computing, Maps, Woodworking, and most importantly of all, Yoga-- all in one place.

There were fora for all of these "back in the good old days" but the user base is 100x more active and knowledgable, they're all in one place, and there are super-niches.

If you go to reddit and only see companies hawking a product, you're the problem.

Like the people who go on TikTok and only see chicks. What the fuck are you doing? I go on TikTok and only see astronomy and scuba diving videos. It's great!

Re: Power Delete Suite for Reddit

#22

Post by medellin »

rocket_surgeron wrote: post #21
medellin wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Who knows but i already deleted all my accounts and delete the comments earlier this year. The site is only good for finding reviews on products but companies figured that out and game it now as well. I hope reddit dies if for no other reason than the less social media the better

>The site is only good for finding reviews on products but companies figured that out and game it now as well. You're using it wrong. Reddit is the only place, in the history of the entire internet, that has successfully collected all of my interests into one location. Astrophotography, Astronomy, Art Deco, Scuba, Amateur Radio, Radio Astronomy, Motorcycling (specifically Moto Guzzi bikes), EMS/Firefighting, Vintage…

It also had collected my interests in one location but i found the communities grew into toxic for lack of a better term “circle jerks”. It honestly just because a place to go to see people conforming to the majorities opinion on any sub reddit over 20k.

Re: Power Delete Suite for Reddit

#23

Post by Mandatum »

hk1337 wrote: post #20

https://github.com/x89/Shreddit I’m not sure if this is even managed anymore but I always like this one because it would edit the comment to garbage before deleting it.

You can edit on this one too. Overwriting with the same length (which Shreddit did) doesn't really help with how storage architecture works these days.

Re: Power Delete Suite for Reddit

#24

Post by justinator »

justinator wrote: post #7

I may use it as I've been using my real name and maybe not such a good move on my part.

Did it - feel a lot better that that history of mine is gone gone gone. I also keep my Twitter history < 6 months. I don't need these long trails of comments haunting me in 5, 10 years.

Re: Power Delete Suite for Reddit

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Post by edandersen »

People are beginning to realise that any comms in public (even on this hallowed forum) will be used against you if not now but in 1, 2, 5, 10, 20 years time, and likely has already been used to train an LLM. Even Twitter actually deletes all your tweets when your account deletion is actioned, Reddit just replaces your name with [user deleted], hence the need for tools like this.

Discord is on the rise with Gen Z as a result. As long as they don't blow it with whatever pivot they are trying to accomplish with the username changes, semi private walled gardens will be the future of the internet.

Re: Power Delete Suite for Reddit

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Post by flangola7 »

edandersen wrote: post #25

People are beginning to realise that any comms in public (even on this hallowed forum) will be used against you if not now but in 1, 2, 5, 10, 20 years time, and likely has already been used to train an LLM. Even Twitter actually deletes all your tweets when your account deletion is actioned, Reddit just replaces your name with [user deleted], hence the need for tools like this. Discord is on the rise with Gen Z as a…

Ever platform should be providing a way to delete everything you've done by now. Right to be forgotten is already the law for anyone that's an EU resident and the rest of the world is headed there too.

Re: Power Delete Suite for Reddit

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Post by Bystander22 »

Is that the best tool to delete posts and overwrite comments? I took a look at the developer's comments and last month he said about v 1.4.3 (3 years old) that it still works as it always did, but 2 years ago he was talking about a complete rewrite to fix things, and he never got around to it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/PowerDeleteSuite/comments/mgshmh/a_...

https://www.reddit.com/r/PowerDeleteSuite/comments/e1zl76/po...

Any opinions on shreddit or Redact?

Is it probably correct that shreddit and Redact depend on the API, but Power Delete Suite does not?

Re: Power Delete Suite for Reddit

#28

Post by snapplebobapple »

rocket_surgeron wrote: post #21
medellin wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Who knows but i already deleted all my accounts and delete the comments earlier this year. The site is only good for finding reviews on products but companies figured that out and game it now as well. I hope reddit dies if for no other reason than the less social media the better

>The site is only good for finding reviews on products but companies figured that out and game it now as well. You're using it wrong. Reddit is the only place, in the history of the entire internet, that has successfully collected all of my interests into one location. Astrophotography, Astronomy, Art Deco, Scuba, Amateur Radio, Radio Astronomy, Motorcycling (specifically Moto Guzzi bikes), EMS/Firefighting, Vintage…

I have had all my interests collected in one place since at least the late 90's; its called a web browser.....

Re: Power Delete Suite for Reddit

#29

Post by Tangurena2 »

afavour wrote: post #4

Call me cynical but I’m surprised how widespread the opinion is that Reddit is on a death spiral. It might end up being another Digg but I can’t help but feel like this is going to be a blip and that Reddit will by and large continue just fine. If anything I think this is the moment that Reddit finally separates from the “geeky” crowd that originally birthed it (I remember the days when Reddit was the nerdier alterna…

There is also a huge resentment among users about getting advertisements from Hobby Lobby. Their "He Get Sus" campaign is obnoxious and the $5,000,000 that Hobby Lobby has promised is worth more to Reddit than all of their users.

I think the Digg similarity is correct. For the sake of a buck, Reddit is going to destroy their userbase. CNN has shown us just how quick that sort of downfall can be. Chasing conservative money looks appealing to money counters, but if it is the enemy of your customers, then you may as well file bankruptcy right away.

Re: Power Delete Suite for Reddit

#30

Post by Tangurena2 »

voisin wrote: post #18

Is there a way to tell if this actually deletes or if Reddit just shows it as deleted but keeps backups of it?

The previous content used to be available via the API, and there were several "undelete-reddit" web sites (ceddit, unddit, among others). Changes to the API broke them more than a year ago. If you wanted your account gone and unrecoverable (prior to those API changes) you had to use one of the deletion utilities (several mentioned in this thread) that edited each comment and replaced it with "garbage".
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