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Just deleted my Reddit account (it was pretty hard to do I'll admit) (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/vent

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Just deleted my Reddit account because of a couple reasons. One, I barely used it after the API pricing protests, and two, Reddit is allowing users' posts to be used as AI training data, which I find reprehensible for obvious reasons. I will admit that I feel pretty sad about it, though, because I made my account back before Reddit completely went down the shitter and was actually kinda decent. I hope more people use Lemmy or Kbin because it's feeling pretty lonely here in the Fediverse. Sorry this vent isn't particularly sad. I'm just kinda bummed about this is all.

P.S. obligatory fuck u/spez lololololol

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[–] Gradually_Adjusting 10 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I want to delete mine. I've heard they undelete your comments though. If there's a way to destroy the data I'll do that instead

[–] mipadaitu 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Depending on how many comments you made, you can go and edit them to nonsense text.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Unfortunately I spent a few years being an insufferable wad on that site, so there's too much to delete by hand.

[–] Blue_Morpho 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The perfect use for AI! Have a script use AI to overwrite your old posts with realistic looking but nonsense text.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

With what API?

[–] Blue_Morpho 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The API is still there. You get 100 free API calls per minute.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting 2 points 1 month ago

Oh, word? I think scrubbing my account with some AI junk would take like an entire day then

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I used Power Delete Suite to overwrite all my comments with nonsense. The hope is they can't profit off my thoughts by training AI.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Even better. Replace your comments with AI nonsense. This way not only is it harder to tell you did it, and restore from backup, but you also poison any of their trained models.

[–] over_clox 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite

I've heard they keep at least one backup, so you should overwrite your data twice, at least. There are other solutions out there that do the same as well.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting 4 points 1 month ago

Saved for later. Thanks buddy

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

They should really make that an option, and the fact that they don't is infuriating