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Finally! Managed to erase all 1477 of my comments! (kbin.social)
submitted 2 years ago by abff08f4813c@kbin.social to c/RedditMigration@kbin.social
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Okay, finally I am confident that I got them all!

Here's what I did

First, I got a torrent client set up, and went to

https://academictorrents.com/details/c398a571976c78d346c325bd75c47b82edf6124e/tech&filelist=1

It turns out that you can just download individual subs from the torrent instead of the whole thing. I know exactly which ones I first commented on, it was a small list and the subs themselves were pretty small too at the time. So downloading just those subs from the torrent was pretty speedy and easy.

After that I came up with a quick script (based on the example scripts by the pushshift team's github) at https://github.com/Watchful1/PushshiftDumps to parse and find my comments and spit out the comment ids into a text file.

Next, I modifed the super useful script at https://github.com/luphoria/reddit-migration one last time to accept a list of comment ids in a text file (instead of asking reddit for them), and then had it overwrite them all.

Looks like I won't be needing that GDPR archive after all, thanks for nuttin reddit!!

Hat-tip: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36038684

Waiting for one sub to go public so I can finish erasing my content, then I can delete knowing I didn't leave a single thing behind.

Edit: Here are the patches btw.

For reddit-migration: https://kbin.social/m/DataDumps/t/65055/reddit-migration-patch

And for the pushshift scripts: https://kbin.social/m/DataDumps/t/65054/pushdump-patch

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[–] abff08f4813c@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Here are the patches btw.

For reddit-migration: https://kbin.social/m/DataDumps/t/65055/reddit-migration-patch

And for the pushshift scripts: https://kbin.social/m/DataDumps/t/65054/pushdump-patch

[–] MentallyExhausted@reddthat.com 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Aaaaand they’re restored. They’re all restored.

[–] abff08f4813c@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

I just did a quick spot check. None of mine have come back (yet). That said, reddit did decide out of the blue to permaban me for no clear reason - so likely they didn't want any of my stuff to begin with. YMMV.

One sub went dark before I could overwrite everything from there. Trying to decide if I should wait for them to come back and finish the wipe or if I should just bite the bullet and delete now. Could use your advice here.

[–] abff08f4813c@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

158 additional comments caught!

[–] abff08f4813c@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

The sub I was waiting on finally reopened into restricted mode! All comments and posts are now deleted, and finally deleted the account as well! Feels good to be free.