3rd Party Apps should add a 'delete user history' function before going offline

3 years ago by stanleytweedle to c/technology

I know it's probably too late to add this feature but I think a lot of users like me that relied on RIF and others would like to delete their history so it doesn't add to Reddit's content (not that I added much, but in principle).

I know there are other ways and I'll try to find one but for a lot of people it would be easier to just do it through the app before it's gone.

lemme 16 points 3 years ago

This one was recommended in a FOSS community: https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite

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aceospos 7 points 3 years ago

Looks like a good tool as it mentions editing your comment before deleting them. Not sure if I recall correctly but I believe I heard Michael Bazzell in one of his podcasts mention something about editing your posts first (and allowing sometime for them to "bake in") before deleting the edited posts

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Narte 4 points 3 years ago

Any idea how long the edits need to cook? Are we talking on the order of hours, days, weeks, or months?

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fuzzzerd 2 points 3 years ago

Depends on your use case. If you just want the content removed from their database (assuming they aren't tracking versions or edits themselves) then a few hour bake is probably sufficient. Realistically probably good to delete immediately after the edit, but better to be safe and wait.

The more difficult to quantify problem are reddit content sucker's that have copied content from reddit, and there maybe no deleting from those unless they refresh data directly which is unlikely.

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perkele 2 points 3 years ago

Make sense. Deleting a post probably just toggles a 'deleted' flag in the database and doesn't touch the post contents. Writing over the comment, however, would actually change the data. Then you can proceed to delete it.

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sokkies 4 points 3 years ago

I used that to wipe my account.. got like 10 automod messages complaining about it lol

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andrew 5 points 3 years ago

Another one I saw suggested was https://redact.dev/

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Countsenju 3 points 3 years ago

iOS requires this I I believe.

If you can make an account, the app has to be able to delete that account.

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krolden 5 points 3 years ago

You may be able to delete your account, but that might not delete your post history.

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Countsenju 2 points 3 years ago

You are absolutely correct 😅

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Austin-Philp 2 points 3 years ago

And if enough folks do the "edit your comments" trick, reddit will just know to look for prior revisions when selling the data, unfortunately.

The best middle finger we can all manage is to just stop playing. Delete your account by all means to kill their user numbers, but the real impact will be in not contributing further

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