I just deleted 12 years of content. Feels weird
I nuked my Reddit accounts today. Deleted all comments and posts, then the accounts themselves. The tool I used showed each comment as it was deleted, and it was bittersweet.
I watched old gaming and movie discussions I barely remember appear and then get flagged as deleted. Communities I once participated in and then moved on as the years past flashed by. I remembered how I felt back then, and then watched them scroll on into oblivion.
Now I feel...I guess it's grief. Sadness for that part that's gone. Sadness that it'll never be there again. Like footprints on a beach wiped away by the tide. It's like it never happened. There is no trace.
And I feel anger. Mad that it came to this. Mad that I let a corporation have so much of my time and thoughts. Mad that they made it clear my life was nothing but a product to them.
It's over now. Time for a new chapter.
Anyone else have strong feelings about losing a part of the past like this?
doing the same as we speak. My replacement text is "Moved to Lemmy because Reddit has become greedy with data generated by their community"
is there a way to mass edit your comments? I'd love to change all my comments to "Moved to kbin/lemmy"
Use powerdeletesuite it does what you ask for and you can download all posts and comments before overwriting as an excel file
Nice! Ill give this a go
Just know you might have to run it 5-6 times to get all your comments. I found the first time I ran it, it edited maybe 1/5 of my comments. I overwrote my comments with this:
Yeah, there is a script that will do just that. I'll see if I can find it and drop a link here...