Reddit

After 13 years, I had quit reddit 1st June 2023. At the time I joined beehaw (lemmy.world didn't exist) and used the redact utility to delete all my posts/comments (we could at the time delete instead of mass editing.

I lurk sometimes some niche communities or go on reddit from google search, I never comment or upvote. I sometimes click on my user to see there was no comments/saved/etc.

Yesterday, randomly, I clicked on my username and saw all my 2023 and less post, 13 years of comments, I was like WTF, after 2 years, reddit decided to take an old backup or something and undelete all my comments!!!

As now redact only do mass editing and pretty slowly, I used something else, https://github.com/Jelly-Pudding/ereddicator/tree/main, followed instructions, it deleted ~3600 comments in less than 2 hours.

I'll monitor from time to time if reddit keep undeleting them, to feed their AI...

Party that screams about releasing redacted informarion sure loves controlling the narative by redacting information.

I just said I support Iran over Israel and got another permanent ban.
How do I delete all my posts from reddit? I dont want to create free content for them.

So from what I can tell, Reddit picks up on stuff like IP, but they also look at screen size and your browser too.

It's easy enough to botch the latter two, but it's tough getting a new IP. The issue is that when I use any free VPNs, they presumably have a crap ton of traffic going through them already, and I think Reddit has probably blacklisted most of them.

Has anyone on here had success with a paid, higher quality VPN? I'm not power user or anything, so honestly if just getting like a free trial for Nord or Surfshark or something would allow me to make a couple posts every now and then, that would be spectacular.

This is the second time this has happened. I delete all my old posts and comments using PowerDeleteSuite. I view my profile - everything selected is gone. A few months later, it's all back. I repeat the process, verifying it's all gone. I log in today, months later, and it's back. Simply maddening.

Is there anything I can do to make it stick?

This post in /r/AskHistorians apparently caused a mod conflict and confused sub users.

A couple of highlights:

Hello everyone wondering where the answer is […] We are not asking anyone to completely re-write something to suit our tastes, but to contextualize what is written within the reality of the times. As this question hit /r/all, it’s very clear that there is a large audience reading it, with various degrees of knowledge about the period and the novel/film.

They did, though, and people called them out, to be met by some confusion, followed by another mod response:

In sum, you had the poor timing of posting right at the point when the mod team ‘turns over’ several times - US slips off to Bed and then Europe wakes up. It meant that you were dealing with, essentially, a string of mods in different time zones and different “shifts” which created something of a Moderator game of telephone about what we had been expecting out of an answer in the thread.

General confusion ensued.

There were several conflicting mod DMs that weren’t captured publicly, too, but were responded to in the OP. Asked to include all races, then asked to narrow it down, asked to include a disclaimer (I did, at the bottom), then asked to move it to the top, asked to remove things, then to include those same things. It was maddening.

E: re-reading, I don’t think I’ve ever used race words so often in my life, jesus.

e: I only included this photo because I couldn’t seem to submit this post without a photo for some reason. It’s only tangentially related to the Reddit post, but this is an example of my education on the subject.

Compare my first link to this: https://www.reveddit.com/v/AskHistorians/comments/69670k/did_southern_girls_around_the_civil_war_really/

Thank you for that link, @NotAnotherLemmyUser!

I can't even view the website anymore. It gives me this. Does the same thing from my home PC and my work PC.

It's a massive pain in the ass because when I google search for information, half the results are from reddit. Those results are all useless now. I can't see the information.

Fuck that place. Fuck the shit-eating motherfuckers who are running it into the ground. I'm so tired of self-entitled elitism. Someone needs to tell these fuckers that they're not better than anyone else and just because they don't like someone's opinion that's not a good reason to exclude them, silence them, and isolate them. WTF.

Ironically, it worked with one of Mullvad VPN servers.

I was reading a YC dissident's blogpost midway when I refreshed the page. Just like that Poof! with big brother magic it's now forever gone from the interwebs. Apparently OP has "Changed His Mind" to the point of deleting it instead of updating it, fancy that.

The post died in silence with only one witness - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35373019#44204676

My Previous Post (Read it first, as this post might not make sense to you, without reading the previous post first)

I saw a lot of people defending Ars Technica in my previous post. Here is a simple proof that they are an evil company:

ProPublica Posts:

Ars Technica post:

As it can be seen here, the original source of the info/Investigation was Propublica and even in terms of the story cover photo, Propublica used a custom cover.

Yet, despite all of that, as expected Reddit manipulated upvotes to boost the Ars Technica story and even deleted the second ProPublica story from Reddit.

Journalism will be fucked up, because of Condé Nast and their parent company manipulation.

Remember how everyone agreed it was probably her, we had hella high upvote posts, see none of them now only found one filled with skeptics

They want your content to make their site worth visiting, they just don't want you