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Do the advantages of deleting one's entire Reddit history outweigh the disadvantages?

I have previously nuked my first Reddit account because it felt satisfactory to be completely detached from a platform one considers unethical/bad. Though, I have garnered quite some history on a second account—because Duty Calls*, of course—and I'm considering doing the same.

However, I don't want to do it impulsively. I think I might be blind to some disadvantages. What do you think?

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[–] MaximilianKohler 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

The ideal scenario would be to download your data, then upload it to your own static website before deleting it.

Here's an example of it: https://www.rareddit.com/

But you'd need a static site generator built to do that, and I haven't been able to get a response from the person who made that website. I've tried posting about it elsewhere, and didn't get any solutions.

It should be simple enough for someone to make a template or instructions or an SSG for people to use. Unfortunately, no one has.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It looks like all it is is an html table styled with css right inside the file. And it is just only big html file. So, in theory, all you would have to do is:

  1. Get the export from reddit (I think it is a .csv)
  2. Convert the CSV to html (there are online converters for that)
  3. Add the CSS that you want.
  4. Find somewhere to host (Like github pages)

That's it.

[–] MaximilianKohler 1 points 3 months ago

Wouldn't you have to convert all the links into separate pages too? IE:

That seems like it would need some kind of script.

That person is also archiving full pages. If we use our .csv export it will just be our comments with no context, unfortunately. Better than nothing though.