Interested in getting a feel for what people may be likely to do IF reddit reverses their decision regarding API access, or reduces access fees to a reasonable level and 3rd party apps remain sustainable.

While I know the chances of this are extreeeemely slim, until 1st July there is an ever so slight chance this could still happen.

From my perspective, the community harm is done, and those who have left prior to July 1 have left due to principles, not because their app stopped working. As such, I’d be inclined to think most of those migrators would stay here in the fediverse.

But would we see a mass exodus back to reddit if the changes were undone? It’s easy to say no, but if it went back to operations as relatively normal, it may be easy to justify going back for some users.

I’d like to think I wouldn’t go back. I’ve deleted content and account from reddit. I’ll be happy here so long as there is enough userbase for some discussion.

  • tikitaki
    5•1 year ago

    in case anyone wants to know how to do this

    Yall, remember to mass edit your post history at least a couple of times before deleting your account. It will take a while (it took various hours to nuke 8k+ comments from my history) and time is getting shorter as we probably won’t have access to automated tools once July comes.

    Remember that Reddit complies with GDPR by anonimising your comments, not deleting them. If you want to nuke your post history, you have to do it now that you have the chance.

    PowerDeleteSuite, Redact.dev, shreddit should all do edit+delete.

    I personally used this fork, is slower but gets 100% of your comments and you can deselect the delete check to do more rounds of editing to reduce the risk of rollbacks (I’ve been doing a round every few days for a while):

    https://github.com/pkolyvas/PowerDeleteSuite

    • Veraxus
      2•1 year ago

      I do not recommend Redact. Reddit cuts it off after rewriting fewer than 20 comments. If I have to manually edit thousands of comments, I will; but I’d rather automate it.

      Shreddit doesn’t seem to do mass edits, just deletions. Edits are safer than deletions (which Reddit seems to be restoring) and send a stronger message.

      I’m looking into Power Delete Suite now.

      EDIT: Ok, so Power Delete Suite gets blocked by Reddit’s rate-limiting. Thankfully, it’s Open Source, so I copied the code into ViolentMonkey and wrapped the pd.children.edit internals in a setTimeout() with a 2000ms delay, and that has been running successfully for hours (I also added a handler to alert me if I got any rate-limit messages in the response text, just-in-case).

      • tikitaki
        1•1 year ago

        let me know about your research. i’m looking to do this in the next couple of days. i found that comment on reddit. i’ve worked with the reddit api before and presumably i could make my own script to do it… but there are probably complications i’m not aware of that these tools have had to deal with