Hello Lemmy!

How do you recommend dealing with your old reddit account/ posts? Should I delete my old posts or just leave them there? Or maybe replace everything with the same text?

I heard that reddit might be restoring deleted posts. Would editing the post and then deleting it or just editing it be the better alternative to just deleting it?

I’ve seen the post that recommends doing all that BEFORE the API shutdown but now it’s after so I figured maybe something had changed about the tactics?

How did you go about it?

  • atlasraven31@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Editing everything to jibberish has a negative impact on Reddit and Google searches of Reddit. It’s better than deleting since it still takes up database space:

    Something like DROP_TABLE ALL;

    • PeanutsHere@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      Thanks for the hint. What does

      DROP_TABLE ALL

      mean?

      Also would you say random text that doesn’t make sense is better or just copy pasting a paragraph from somewhere? Or just a one liner like: “Moved to Lemmy.”?

      • atlasraven31@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        It’s an SQL command to delete the database named All. A lil programmer humor.

        Either is good but I personally want to use maximum allowed characters and maybe Shakespeare. The more bot-like and irrelevant the better

  • Skanky@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Power Delete Suite, all the way

    Just go here

    Drag the button to your toolbar to create a shortcut

    Go to your profile page on Reddit

    Press the shortcut button you created on the toolbar

    Select options*

    Start deleting!

      • strongly recommend creating a “goodbye” message to edit your posts to before deleting. This makes it extremely difficult for Reddit to restore your data to what it was prior to deleting it.