Reddit is feeding all user comments and posts into Google’s virtual wood chipper, meaning the reconstructed goop of your conversation will be extracted by Google’s AI language models. action, As reported by Reuters.The social network is worth $60 million a year.
After reading this, you may want to delete your Reddit account and everything on it. Reddit, after all, isn’t much fun anymore—and not just because they killed off “reddit is fun” last year when they Killed all the good Reddit clients.. The truth is that the old Reddit feels less important, in part because of the last year The company seemed quite hostile To the moderators and posters who power the site. The company’s upcoming IPO, if the history of other social networks is anything to go by, probably won’t improve matters.
But deleting your Reddit account isn’t enough. Follow or follow Official documents And every post and comment you make will stay on the site—it’s just separated from your account. Maybe you want all of your posts to be gone forever, to avoid them being reorganized by any big language models masquerading as general-purpose AI. You also want a personal backup of your posts. Here’s how to get that backup, delete your posts, and finally delete your account.
Back up your posts.
You probably don’t want to lose all the comments and posts you’ve made over the years. Reddit allows you to request your Reddit data — go through the process and you’ll receive a ZIP file full of CSV files containing all your comments, posts, upvotes, and more.
To get started, log into Reddit and go to Data Request page. You’ll be asked what type of request it is — if you’re in the EU or California, you can use those respective rules and Reddit must send you the information. If not, Reddit offers an “other” field, which still works. Specify which dates you want or request all your data, then click. submit.
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You’ll get a note saying your data is on its way and a Reddit DM when the data is ready. I only had to wait a few hours for my information. The archive comes as a zip file full of CSV files, which you can open using something like Microsoft Excel. Blogger Daniel Rosehill has a great one. Blog post that outlines what’s in the file.if you want details.
Delete all posts and comments.
Now that you’ve backed up your comments and posts, it’s time to delete them. The bad news: Reddit doesn’t offer a way to bulk delete your comments and posts. They suggest simply going to your profile page, clicking the three dots to the right of such posts, then clicking Delete. For everyone.
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That’s fine if you only have a couple of posts, but longtime Reddit users have a lot more. There are many tools out there that can delete large numbers of old posts. It’s the best I’ve found Reddit NukerA Chrome extension with two buttons: Delete posts. And Delete comments.. Click either while logged into Reddit and the extension will do the work for you.
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Note that due to API limitations, this extension can only delete up to 100 comments or posts at a time. Once this limit is reached the extension will pause for a minute, after which you can click the button again to continue. It’s a little annoying — especially if you have thousands of posts — but trust me: it’s less annoying than deleting everything one by one.
If that’s not automatic enough, there’s another Chrome extension, Bulk delete Reddit posts., which can delete 50 posts and 50 comments per day for free. It costs more than $9.99, one time, but it doesn’t force you to play a waiting game like Reddit Nuker. Both tools are well reviewed, so it’s really up to you.
Delete your Reddit account.
Now that you’ve backed up your comments and posts and removed them from Reddit, it’s time to delete your account. by the Account settings And scroll down. You will get it Delete the account Button
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You’ll be asked why you’re leaving Reddit — you can answer or not (I recommend using AI to generate a long article just for irony, but I A big shock). You’ll need to enter your username and password, check a box to indicate that you know your data cannot be recovered, and that’s it: you can click. Delete. button and your account will be permanently deleted. You are free.
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