It honestly feels good. I have been mentally divorced from reddit since they doubled down on their API fuckery. I enjoyed my time there but, at this point, I don’t have the energy to move anywhere but forward. I’m glad to have stripped Reddit of my content.
Here’s to starting another life. I hope we can make it a good one.
It would be awesome if there were a way to import all of you post and comment history here while deleting it from there. There are a lot of helpful posts and discussions on reddit that will unfortunately set many back in their searches for different answers.
I did a GDPR request for all my data, and then aimed the reddit-user-to-sqlite script at it – https://github.com/xavdid/reddit-user-to-sqlite
The metadata.json & recommendation to use datasette to interact with it makes finding old comments super easy. I’ve been going through all my comments sorted by date, clicking each permalink manually and editing-and-deleting them while bored during the workday (meetings, etc.). It has the added benefit of being incredibly difficult to figure out of I’m a bot or not.
I’m thinking of, instead, just pasting the content into chatgpt and editing the responses to leave it in place.
Is there a way to do this but to edit and then delete comments? I have 15 years of comments I don’t want to give to spez
I kept a CSV of all of my comments and posts via PowerDelete.
Then I messed up running the tool to update all my posts with a helpful message saying to reach out on Lemmy if needed. But I also kept the “delete” checkbox enabled. Ouch.
So eventually the whole script took much longer to run, edited all my posts with that useful text, only to delete them later on. I felt sorry for that case I had the best intentions, but there was no way of going back at that point.