Hi, first post here, hoping people can share how they are cleaning up comments and deleting their reddit accounts. I’m ~~ thick as a brick~~ pretty average when it comes to tech, so far I’ve shreddit github.com/andrewbanchich/shreddit/releases but after downloading the windows version and trying to run it… It got blocked by windows security the first time, I insisted in running it, but afterwards nothing happened. I’ve just installed malware, who knows.

So if you have some foolproof method to nuke all reddit history in your account, I’d love to know about it. Thanks!

  • Lvxferre@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Mini-tutorial from r/RedditAlternatives, on how to replace your content with random gibberish and then delete it:

    • Open Zompist’s gen. Take off the line saying “ki|či”, and click “Generate”. You’ll get some random babble like “Bepe topioi kabi brete i kropra”, copy it somewhere.
    • Open your Reddit profile and drag the button of Power Delete Suite to it.
    • [Optional] Check the box saying “prepare local backup of items”, if you want to save your content elsewhere.
    • Uncheck “remove comments”. You want to replace them with babble, not remove them.
    • [Optional] uncheck “remove posts”. It depends if you post mostly self posts or if you post links/pics. Use your reasoning.
    • Check “Edit comments / self posts”. It should open an input box for text; place the babble from Zompist’s gen there. Then click “process”.
    • Just wait!
    • [Optional] Click to download the backup of the items.