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I keep my account and deleted every single comment or post I've made. If you have ever follow any thread, seeing a
[deleted]comment is infuriating even if it turns out to be insignificant info. I want to maximize my departure's effect and that's exactly what I wanted.I have been having to rerun my deletion scripts daily. They are actively restoring comments. Even after writing gibberish and deleting. They are now holding more than 1 backup.
Make a GDPR request to delete your data. Use a VPN to be in Europe, how are they going to know if you are or not a EU citizen? Are they going to risk the GDPR fines assuming you're not a EU Citizen currently traveling in the US?
They definately log IPs. I’ve gotten warnings for voting on a post, switching accounts, and later voting on the same post I stumbled on before. They can probably see that pattern.
Either way it’s fine. I’ll keep running the script. It’s all JavaScript so no api needed. And let them burn compute time on restores.
That's not a bad point. I still get the occasional reply notification from comments many years old, from people who were looking for a conversation on a topic and engaged with what I said a decade ago.
I suppose it would be somewhat impactful if those comments were just empty voids, perhaps even moreso if they were all replaced by a message saying something like "I left reddit because of X, look for me on the feddiverse to continue this conversation."
All of my comments that I can access have been edited and left in place. Every one is now simply
"Deleted: I refuse to let Reddit profit off of my content when they treat their community like this"