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I want to change all my reddit comments to point to Lemmy before deleting my account. What's the best way to do that? (lemmy.ml)
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Title. I plan on deleting my account soon but want all my comments to point people to lemmy. I know there are several ways to do so but I can't remember what they are. I did a search here before posting but nothing related came up.

I'm planning on changing my comments to something like:

Edit: Moved to Lemmy

but is there something better I can say?

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[–] coralof 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I used this tool to comment over all my old posts with a message about the protest, and then go through and delete everything. The export part was kind of janky, since it just spat out a weirdly formatted CSV file, but it did what I needed it to.

After it was done, I deleted my account! :D

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

For me it only exported the last set. The first few times it stalled with an error and I had to restart, but it had deleted comments and not given me a CSV of the ones so far.

In any case, PDS doesn't get everything, because not everything will be displayed on your profile. PDS goes through your New, Hot, Top & Controversial comments, anything that is not displayed in these lists will be missed. I ran it to completion and it said there was nothing left, but I had a couple gilded comments with <50 karma on the gilded tab that were still there, as well as many comment replies to the Top comments it had wiped.

The only way to get everything it seems is to do a GDPR request and use the links in the files you get.

[–] coralof 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Interesting. I must just not have had that much content then. I went through all the tabs on my profile, and all of them showed 'no content' after running PDS.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

They won't necessarily show in the tabs, I only had 2 gilded comments that were missed and shown in the gilded tabs. The rest of the remaining comments were just loose on reddit, and there were a lot of those. Mostly 1 karma comments, but for me comments with 50 karma or less. The main ones I noticed were replies down below old top comments I had made. I opened them before I ran PDS and after completion I refreshed, the top comment was gone but the little replies were still there.

Even after running PDS, you should still be able to do a GDPR request to see what's left, so long as you can convince them you're in the right jurisdiction (maybe a VPN would work).