• neo (he/him)@lemmy.comfysnug.space
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    1 year ago

    I would highly recommend that everyone run a tool like Redact over your reddit accounts. Deprive them of your user contributions if they’re going to play this way.

    • NotMerritStone@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Do those tools rely in any way on pushshift in order to work? If so, I don’t know if they’ll work now since Reddit cut off pushshift.io’s access to the API back in early May.

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      1 year ago

      Kind of disagree… Not that I’m saying don’t but I have Q/A for programming things and other topics that’s years old. Its already been scrapped, and it is useful for others to find even years later.

      • SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        Yeah, I briefly flirted with the idea of nuking my account, but before I deleted it I would get a comment once in awhile, on a post/comment from years ago thanking me for solving an issue someone was having. And despite how much I really don’t want to continue contributing to reddit’s profits, I felt like having that there for someone to stumble on after hours of searching and smashing their face in the keyboard was worth whatever reddit makes off it. Also I had some wicked burns on some fascist shit bags.