hey everyone. if you want to post links or discuss the Reddit blackout today, please localize it to this thread in order to keep things tidy! Thanks!

  • lackthought@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    35·
    2 years ago

    I just used Power Delete Suite to remove all my comments and submissions

    https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite

    I am just a drop in the ocean, but I won’t be going back to reddit now that’s I’ve discovered the fediverse

    this feels like the internet I fell in love with back in the mid 90s with smaller communities and no corporations trying to control what I interact with

    • Sanctonis@beehaw.orgEnglish
      16·
      2 years ago

      Considering doing what someone else suggested and editing all your comments to explain why you left, to mess with the data it has access to rather than outright removing it

        • Pigeon@beehaw.orgEnglish
          6·
          2 years ago

          This is what I did, too. I even included a little blurb about Lemmy.

          I suspect the account might just get banned and comments deleted, but nevertheless they were (or will be) there for at least a little while, and it removed my participation in reddit’s profit machine. It was oh so satisfying to do even if it only had a super small impact.

    • catsup@lemmy.oneEnglish
      13·
      2 years ago

      oh man I’d love to run that but I feel it’d be wrong to purge all of the technical answers I’ve posted over the years. I think it’s better to pass on that one

      • lackthought@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        6·
        2 years ago

        it had an option to export your comments into a .csv, so theoretically you could post them elsewhere if you want

        but that could be a lot of work so I understand just leaving comments as they are

        • Pete Hahnloser@beehaw.orgEnglish
          3·
          2 years ago

          Archiving copies of my Reddit history would be nice, but here’s a somewhat idiotic question.

          I use commas in copy a lot, so a CSV file sounds like a nightmare. How’s that handled?

          • Cipher@beehaw.orgEnglish
            4·
            2 years ago

            Csv is not always comma delimited. It could also be delimited with a tab, semicolon, or pipe (|)

            • T0RB1T@beehaw.orgEnglish
              3·
              2 years ago

              Isn’t a tab delimeted spreadsheet normally called a TSV, as in “Tab-Separated Values”?

              Isn’t CSV literally Comma-Separated Values?

              Sorry, pedantry doesn’t die.

              • Cipher@beehaw.orgEnglish
                3·
                2 years ago

                A little bit yes, a little bit no

                Tab delimited csv are sometimes called tsv, but just as often you’ll see csv (tab delimited) as a file type option

                See the wiki section on standardization for details.

                Csv currently includes the following delimiters:

                Comma, space, tab, pipe, or semicolon

            • Pete Hahnloser@beehaw.orgEnglish
              1·
              2 years ago

              Now that you point it out, I remember being able to set delimiters on exports. It’s just been ages since I was generating them.

          • TheRtRevKaiser@beehaw.orgMEnglish
            1·
            2 years ago

            you can enclose the contents of a field in double quotes so that commas withing a field don’t break it.

      • EponymousBosh@beehaw.orgEnglish
        6·
        2 years ago

        You can filter by subreddit in Power Suite Delete, so if your tech answers are in specific subs, you can leave those alone and delete everything else

    • coldredlight@beehaw.orgMEnglish
      4·
      2 years ago

      Just kicked it off on my account, it’s currently rewriting every Reddit comment I ever made. Feels good.