Power Delete Suite for Reddit

Fires start with a spark.

If you haven't paid attention maybe. But people have been pissed for years.

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

To put it in terms HN might understand:

For moderators, the switch from being able to use third party clients to being forced to use the official reddit client would be like a programmer being told their favorite IDE/text editor can no longer be used for code, and you'll have to get used to notepad or something.

Existing code? Fine! No problems, you can run it like normal. Writing new code? I'm not so sure you will have nearly as many developers willing to work in that ecosystem. Third party applications are part of the core moderation loop of pretty much every subreddit that operates at scale, and depriving those moderators of the tools they use will be to the detriment of the quality of the site.

People saying this won't change much probably haven't tried to moderate at scale using only first party tools. It sucks.

Perhaps people who mostly browse small subreddits through the default client are spared from the current drama. The front page of reddit feels very different from the rest of reddit.

I suspect those small subreddits will continue for a while.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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".

Considering that as of 50 minutes ago, the only way to read comments is on their new interface, i'd be slightly worried about your content.

There is a huge relief in being able to let go of everything on social media accounts. Starting fresh, deleting (at the time) my 11 year old reddit acc felt great. It was stupid of me to stick to old comments on various subreddits. Did the same to twitter recently and my online habits have felt better than ever since ditching those two sites.

It's ok to delete your content, it's your content. If you cared, you would have archived it. Same with others who might care about that content. Archiving it can mean using systems like IPFS to keep it alive as long as someone wants it. It's not some grand erasure of history, you are just throwing away old CVS receipts, err in this case Reddit receipts. It's also ok to keep those receipts if you want, filling up a cabinet in the closet maybe to look back at the time you bought a toothbrush I suppose.

Deleting accounts and histories offers a major benefit for people, which is that if they are somewhat addicted it's easier to stay away from when you no longer have an old account to feel connected to that encourages you to keep returning. This is likely the primary reason for most people, and not that they particularly care about content written.

Going to ashes is the least of your worries. It was a cool project with cool leadership. It's been People Magazine for years. What has changed is that they're getting extortionate with the way they broker access to all the data we've donated.

It's not about what they owe you or me. It's about not paywalling the commons.

Whats more, as they're pursuing monetization, all your data is more for sale than its ever been. So it's not even Reddit you'd need to trust or have rapport with. They're using your misplaced trust and extending it to anyone who wants it.