Delete Reddit history - eviltoast

Hello Lemmy!

How do you recommend dealing with your old reddit account/ posts? Should I delete my old posts or just leave them there? Or maybe replace everything with the same text?

I heard that reddit might be restoring deleted posts. Would editing the post and then deleting it or just editing it be the better alternative to just deleting it?

I’ve seen the post that recommends doing all that BEFORE the API shutdown but now it’s after so I figured maybe something had changed about the tactics?

How did you go about it?

  • PeanutsHere@lemmy.worldOP
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    1 year ago

    Thanks for the hint. What does

    DROP_TABLE ALL

    mean?

    Also would you say random text that doesn’t make sense is better or just copy pasting a paragraph from somewhere? Or just a one liner like: “Moved to Lemmy.”?

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      1 year ago

      I would not make it too easy to filter out the edited comments. So replacing all with the same paragraph may not be the best idea. Some variation apears to be the key to me.

      That said, I like the idea of pointing to Lemmy.

    • atlasraven31@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      It’s an SQL command to delete the database named All. A lil programmer humor.

      Either is good but I personally want to use maximum allowed characters and maybe Shakespeare. The more bot-like and irrelevant the better

    • ekky43@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 year ago

      Encode a link to lemmy in base64 and put that as your edit.

      Would have done it myself if I’d have thought of that before.

        • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          If you put “Lemmy” in your comments, Reddit will flag that instantly for removal or restoration (even though this is illegal in EU). If you put gibberish or base64, Reddit is too dumb to know to put that in their automatic detection tools.

          • PeanutsHere@lemmy.worldOP
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            1 year ago

            Got it. Wow they really seem to go all the way asshole mode on this. Maybe someone sues them. It’s really not acceptable.