cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/251752

It is important to note that although this may be a result of Reddit’s UI not displaying the content users posted to now-private subreddits, it remains a problem. Additionally, I agree with the author’s comments in the video description, as it appears strategically unrealistic for Reddit to ask that users manually delete the content themselves.

This is particularly true when considering that many automated methods to accomplish this task will be hindered by Reddit’s upcoming API pricing changes. Furthermore, Reddit has demonstrated a recurring pattern of rolling back databases using historical backups, thereby disregarding user deletion requests that were submitted prior to the database rollback.

See similar discussion of this video on Hacker News:

  • Kir@feddit.it
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    1 year ago

    This is great. If we coul do it somehow automatically, it would greatly damage the platform.

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      1 year ago

      There is a way, the Power Delete Suite script can overwrite all your comments with any message you give it, and then follow it up with mass deletion if you wish, only catch is that the original doesn’t account for reddits current rate limiting and so misses stuff , but this fork of it seemed to do the trick for me

      https://github.com/pkolyvas/PowerDeleteSuite

      • Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca
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        1 year ago

        There’s a Python app called shreddit that apparently works quite well.

        python -m pip install -U shreddit

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      1 year ago

      That’s probably how they detect it in the first place. A “normale” user won’t delete hundreds of comments in a row.