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Power Delete Suite: 11 years of reddit being deleted today. I encourage everyone to follow the same. (imgur.com)
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https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite

You can backup and delete or modify all your old reddit content. 1,500,000+ karma and 11 years of my content is being deleted right now. Reddit's gold is user content: If you've left reddit, don't leave them your content.

While it's true that yes, deleting content isn't going to delete it from their servers and they'll still be able to utilize it, be aware that when they get caught doing so the EU and GDPR will fine them billions. Let's set them up for a good one.

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[–] blisscast@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

While I do understand, it's sad to see a lot of past content vanish without a trace. It's damaging to culture, and even though many posts might have been not that important, there will still be some information that is inevitably lost. What would be great, in my opinion, is being able to back posts up to another place, so that they get preserved outside of Reddit.

[–] itty53@vlemmy.net 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Honestly is it all that sad? In a way it's beautiful.

Buddhist monks spend weeks or months constructing sand mandalas on the stone floors of a temple, only to sweep it up immediately upon finishing it. They are beautiful works of art, but their real value to the monks lies in the process of their creation. What reason is there to hold on to it? Instead, take the lessons learned and bring those with you, go forth and create new mandalas more exquisite than before.

I just deleted well over 10 million words from my comment history, many things I've read over and over and many I never thought about again. I'm still the same person, in fact I'm stronger for it. No need to hold on to the past.

[–] Gerryflap@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

That's true, and also my mentality. But when I want to fix my PC and my only lead is a post about the issue with a deleted comment followed by "that fixed it, thx!", I don't think I will be as appreciative of this idea. Reddit was a beautiful source of information and it's kinda painful to see all of that going. Nevertheless I've also wiped my profile since most of it was no longer necessary anyway.