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Nuking old Reddit accounts (lemm.ee)
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I took part in the Reddit blackout a month ago, and accessed Reddit through Apollo. After the blackout I looked at Reddit a handful of times and then let my association with Reddit die with Apollo.

I haven’t been there since, but now I feel as though I should have deleted my account of 7 years, that way everything I ever contributed will be gone.

However, to accomplish this as you all know I should delete all my posts first and edit all comments. I was wondering what people used to do this. I want everything to read “Edit: moved to Lemmy”.

I’m sure others migrating here have the same question. Thanks.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Idk if it’ll let you edit them without deleting them.

Yup it does, that's how I used it. Did a cycle to edit with random words, afterwards checked if it worked & if it looked okay went ahead with a delete.

The edit feature is to create a new entry on the database in case reddit isn’t actually deleting comments from their database when they show as deleted. Although if they’re doing that then they probably keep a change log of the comments as well.

You know I thought that too. But I've seen some people talk about their GDPR data requests & they received the last edited version of their posts/comments, not the original. The data request doesn't even contain anything like a change log of every post/comment. But I guess you could argue the data request is fulfilled with just the last version regardless of how many versions of the same post/comment actually exists.