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I'm curious for those of you who have done this: Have you archived anything?
It's hard to part with a 14 year old account and so much history. I know there are sites that archive reddit and of course archive.org. But nothing is a sure thing unless you are the custodian. It's such a huge snapshot of my life.... Proud of some of it. Not proud of other parts. But that's the beauty of it.
Also I've heard Reddit is reversing anyone who does this anyways.... so... yea. Might not go well in the EU, but they probably can get away with it in the US.
Yes, that's what I did. I've made reddit bots before so I just modified one of my old ones to go through every one of my comments and save them in an excel file. I then edited the comments to say that if anyone needs a particular comment, they should message me on Lemmy. IMO it's the best of both worlds - people can still get their data in case my comments were helpful, and Reddit won't get my comments
Any efficient and not too difficult way to archive and/or edit my stuff, now that the API access is gone?
I literally didn’t have time to deal with this before, working and moving during previous weeks, but I would prefer to stick it to spez on the way out.
E.g. if I request my data from reddit to fuck with them, is the output I get in 30 days useful?
As far as I know, the API isn't, strictly speaking, down - just that it's pretty rate-limited with regards to how many calls you can make before you get charged. Since my script runs on my own bot, which should (theoretically) only run on one user at a time, I don't think it'll be affected. DM me - I could send the script over, or we can work out any details if you're interested in using it
I just edited 11 years worth of comments, about 4,000 I think, and I didn't bother backing any of it up. Going through them all beforehand I didn't feel any need to keep that crap around, most of it was either tired jokes or arguments that I'd rather not reminisce on. I'm having a lot more fun here anyway.
I'm going to keep the account though until I feel satisfied that everything will stay edited or deleted.
This does seem like the right attitude. Sometimes its easy to cling to the past.
I am waiting for my data export, that way I do get to keep the content
Nope, what's gone is gone and I made sure to overwrite my comments multiple times, just to make it a bit more tedious to restore the original one.
I ran Redact somewhere early in June, but when I ran it yesterday it picked up a ton of comments from 2018, so reddit seems to fuck us over even more.
I used a fork of PowerDeleteSuite to edit my comments and out of 2000 comments it edited it claimed to export 500 or so but when i opened the csv export only 53 comments were actually saved. Beware of using PowerDeleteSuite if you want a backup of your comments.