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Archive your Reddit data before it's too late
- xavdid 3y agoI'm not sure it'll be possible to create rich archives of your own data once Reddit's API changes go through, so I made a tool that creates a SQLite archive of everything (that you can update over time).
- ajot 3y agoThank you! I'll try it later. As a sidenote, the circuit-y background of your site makes it unreadable with Dark Reader addon. I disabled it for your site and it looks great, but maybe you would like to check it.
- xavdid 3y agoThanks for flagging! I'll take a look- I'm not familiar with that extension. It does auto color-changing, so I hadn't thought about it.
- cevn 3y agoIt happened to me too, but I would say more an issue with the extension's logic than the site. I think it tried to reverse small-looking elements with logic that they won't be too bright.
- mywacaday 3y agoI'm on android with my theme set to dark, couldn't read the text without a lot of difficulty as the circuit almost matched the colour of the font.
- xavdid 3y agoThanks for mentioning, I'll take a look!
- EamonnMR 3y agoIs there a way to get past the 999 comment limit?
- sroussey 3y agoCan you not do a GDPR request for all your data? (Or the California equivalent)?
- xavdid 3y agoYou can, but it's different (and less complete) data
- ezekg 3y agoPersonally, I wiped all of my personal Reddit accounts last year. I now use short-lived anonymous accounts which I also wipe after awhile. I use Shreddit [^0] to wipe the account before deleting it. I do wish that I was able to backup some valuable conversations, but I honestly wouldn't find much worth in the backups without the additional context. So perhaps something to explore -- also storing the context of a particular comment with a configurable depth. [^0]: https://github.com/x89/Shreddit https://github.com/x89/Shreddit
- nfriedly 3y agoI made a series of reddit posts that collectively involved a fair amount of research, so I ended up copying them over to my personal website in order to have a better primary source. But I'll probably run this to grab everything else.
- rpastuszak 3y agoHehe, many of my articles started as a comment o put too much effort in (eg https://sonnet.io/posts/use-rainbow/ https://sonnet.io/posts/use-rainbow/ vs https://reddit.com/r/web_design/comments/qsb8wz/_/hkc60bz https://reddit.com/r/web_design/comments/qsb8wz/_/hkc60bz) Even 5k people reading content on my site would be better than 50k people skimming through the comment section.
- renewiltord 3y agoAny different from https://www.reddit.com/settings/data-request https://www.reddit.com/settings/data-request ?
- mesid 3y agoThe post says that that data is barebones whereas the tool can get much more.
- Macha 3y agoThough the only field they show that's not in the GDPR export is the subreddit, which you can get by parsing the URL
- thefifthsetpin 3y agoThey discuss that in the article: Reddit does have a feature to export your data into a GDPR archive, but it's pretty barebones ... the highest fidelity data comes from the API.
- edent 3y agoErrr... why not just use their official tool? https://www.reddit.com/settings/data-request https://www.reddit.com/settings/data-request I sent in a request and a few days later had a bunch of .csv files containing everything I've done with my account. OK, CSV isn't JSON - but it's pretty easy to parse or import into a database of your choice.
- warning26 3y agoIt says "wait up to 30 days", which feels excessive.
- that_guy_iain 3y agoAlso probably more complete than shreddit and whatnot. Since I would assume they delete stuff internal data that isn't available publically.
- pohuing 3y agoThat's the limit according to eu regulation https://commission.europa.eu/law/law-topic/data-protection/reform/rules-business-and-organisations/dealing-citizens/how-should-requests-individuals-exercising-their-data-protection-rights-be-dealt_en https://commission.europa.eu/law/law-topic/data-protection/r...
- jwilk 3y agoIt's mentioned in the article: > it's pretty barebones - only the plaintext of the comment, the subreddit name, the timestamp, and weirdly, the number of awards
- winternewt 3y agoOddly the article doesn't mention what else the script in the article exports. Does it do my saved comments and submissions? That's what I'm most interested in.
- lapser 3y agoI just get a page not found.
- phoenixreader 3y agoData-wise, what additional data does this include compared to Reddit's default export?
- xavdid 3y agoYeah, great question! This includes markdown instead of plaintext, the upvote/downvote score, controversiality, and more. It can grab anything out of a full comment response: https://www.reddit.com/user/xavdid/comments.json https://www.reddit.com/user/xavdid/comments.json
- tikkun 3y agoThere's also: https://github.com/aliparlakci/bulk-downloader-for-reddit https://github.com/aliparlakci/bulk-downloader-for-reddit
- wvenable 3y agoI just tried installing this from my very new Linux install (I didn't even have pip installed!) and got the following error: File "/home/XXX/.local/pipx/venvs/reddit-user-to-sqlite/lib/python3.10/site-packages/reddit_user_to_sqlite/reddit_api.py", line 1, in <module> from typing import Any, Literal, NotRequired, Optional, Sequence, TypedDict, final ImportError: cannot import name 'NotRequired' from 'typing' (/usr/lib/python3.10/typing.py)
- rolobio 3y agoYou are on Python 3.10, you need 3.11.
- wvenable 3y agoAh that is the latest I have available on Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS.
- xavdid 3y agoSorry about that! I'll try to allow older versions early next week!
- xavdid 3y agoOk, this is fixed! Released as 0.3.1
- wvenable 3y agoIt worked!
- powersurge360 3y agoYou may consider using asdf or some other Python version manager to get a newer (or older) Python https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf
- xavdid 3y agoAh apologies, the other commenter looks to be correct that it needs 3.11. The typing imports honestly aren't important, so I might be able to pull them out of the runtime.
- Baeocystin 3y agoDoes this include any contextual data surrounding your posts, like what you replied to, etc? That seems to me to be as important as what someone has written.
- xavdid 3y agonot in the data dump, but it has a permalink. I could store the comment chain, but it'll balloon the number of API requests and storage size pretty spectacularly. It _does_ capture the title of the post that your comment is in, if that's helpful!
- wackget 3y agoCan you please add this as an option? Context is extremely important. If it's also possible to save the content of the post, that would also be extremely useful. Finally one additional suggestion which I guess might be doable (?) would be to submit the post URL to archive.org and include the archived URL in the database dump.
- joshstrange 3y agoWhy is there a 1K comment limit and can you add a way to override that? Just hitting the reddit API looks like it will fetch further back. I looked at my 1000th comment in the archive and it's only back to Sat May 28 2022 (I guess I comment a lot), if I want to save 10+ years I'll need a higher limit. Edit: Looks like this might a reddit limit? I'm seeing other tools mention 1K. I guess I'll use Reddit's data export tool instead.
- xavdid 3y agoYep, Reddit's paging API only gives you the most recent 1k each of comments and posts. I'd suggest starting by fetching recent posts, then download your GDPR archive and run it through the tool as well (the `archive` command). Then it'll be as if you fetched everything from the web API (best of both worlds).
- capableweb 3y ago1k limit is a reddit limitation, not this specific tool
- TremendousJudge 3y ago>These changes mark the beginning of the (apparently) inevitable enshittification of Reddit as a platform This started long ago, when the new UI was announced. This was the first obvious "we're going to make it worse for everybody because that's how we operate and there's nothing you can do about it" step for me.
- xavdid 3y agoAt least until now, we could mostly ignore it. It's gotten much more forceful; I'm now worried about old.reddit.com more than I was before.
- andrethegiant 3y agoDoes it capture saves and upvotes too? I use those actions more than posting and commenting.
- xavdid 3y agoIt doesn't, but you could probably trick it into loading those from your GDPR archive (by renaming the file).
- doctoboggan 3y agoI would love to be able to download and archive all the posts I ever upvoted. Honestly that would have more value to me than my own comments. Does anyone know if there is a project for this?
- xavdid 3y agoThis project could be made to support it, but it currently runs without auth. there's an endpoint for it: https://www.reddit.com/user/USERNAME/upvoted.json https://www.reddit.com/user/USERNAME/upvoted.json
- rounakdatta 3y agoShameless plug: I've written a utility which delivers you your favourited posts and comments. While it doesn't support backfilling at the moment, you're welcome to take a look: https://github.com/rounakdatta/my-best-of-reddit https://github.com/rounakdatta/my-best-of-reddit.
- winternewt 3y agoBy favourited do you mean upvoted or saved? I'm interested in a tool to do the latter.
- bsnnkv 3y agohttps://notado.app https://notado.app has supported importing saved comments (and tweets, and hn comments etc) for a long time now. Even if you don't want an account long-term, you can use it to dump your saved (text) posts to a machine readable format for later.
- rounakdatta 3y agoI think saved posts aren't accessible via the API, happy to be corrected.
- koboll 3y ago"before it's too late"? Is GDPR being repealed or something? Kind of a FUD title.
- xavdid 3y agoReddit's API is changing (and getting worse) at the end of the month. They haven't exactly said what is changing, but they've mentioned that: - there will be stricter limits - NSFW content won't be served through the API So depending on how you use Reddit, this sort of export may not be possible in the same way after the cutoff.
- w0m 3y agoThere is information missing in the GDPR dumps that's available in the current API. Things like `score`. Whether that matters to you is up for debate; but access to that delta is likely going away.
- that_guy_iain 3y agoWhat is funny is there seems to feeling of urgency to get data from Reddit even though it's basically the users who are making subreddits private. The protest really does seem to me like a "cut my nose off to spite my face" protest. Realistically, there are ways to protest that increase costs. Everyone uploading 20minute videos of their wall for example. That would increase costs but not really affect how user's use the site. People want to hit their pockets yet all they can think of "If we don't use it, that'll hurt them" when if it really hurt them they wouldn't allow it. They own and control the site, they can make it impossible to make subreddits private with probably a few minutes of code - just make the process error out for a few days and then remove the error at the start of the request.
- w0m 3y ago> The protest really does seem to me like a "cut my nose off to spite my face" protest. It's a bit of both - reddit exists and is profitable because of user engagement/activity. Reddit is shutting down primary way many (most?) user prefer to access it. The symbolism of making communities dark isn't just to hurt Reddit; it's also to forshadow the state of the apparent NewWorld reddit is ushering in.
- joemi 3y ago> Reddit is shutting down primary way many (most?) user prefer to access it. I doubt that most people using reddit use third party apps. I even doubt many people do.
- that_guy_iain 3y agoApollo has 1.2 million users, 900k daily users. Reddit has 50m daily users. 400m monthly. I would say power users are more likely to use third party apps. But even of the power users it's a percentage.
- add-sub-mul-div 3y ago> What is funny is there seems to feeling of urgency to get data from Reddit even though it's basically the users who are making subreddits private. The reason to archive your content is because (1) you want to delete your account or (2) losing access to a free API will make it difficult to do later. Subreddits going dark is just a day long protest, no one needs to archive content due to that.
- MicropenisMike 3y agoYour reddit data is already available via torrent, along with everyone else's, but you'll have to dig for it Reddit comments and submissions collected by Pushshift: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36038684 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36038684
- CommieBobDole 3y ago>Pushshift Which has also been shut down by Reddit as part of this whole fiasco. I think March is the last month of archive data available.
- winddude 3y agoend of 2022 it really starts to fall apart, I think most of the posts are there until March, but comments are missing.
- operator-name 3y agoWho knows what's going on at this point. >Pushshift will come back online for mod tools within two weeks; we are creating an approvals process to avoid impersonation. https://www.reddit.com/r/ModCoord/comments/143rk5p/reddit_held_a_call_today_with_some_developers/jnbjtsc/ https://www.reddit.com/r/ModCoord/comments/143rk5p/reddit_he...
- CommieBobDole 3y agoFrom my read of this, they are basically going from being a complete searchable reddit archive for researchers (and anyone else) to being a archive for the use of Reddit moderators only, and then only for the subreddit they moderate. Which, assuming Reddit isn't paying them, seems pretty much like "We have decided to allow you to do a bunch of unpaid labor for our profit-making benefit as long as it's not useful to anyone else". No idea what they're getting out of it.
- mrtksn 3y agoThat’s reassuring. There are some subs like StableDiffusion that I don’t want to lose. So much original work and history on Reddit.
- INGSOCIALITE 3y ago%s/Archive/Delete/g
- Yhippa 3y agoWhy did people not get this apoplectic when Twitter and Facebook killed 3rd party clients?
- daveidol 3y agoProbably because Reddit's mobile pretense was literally born on third party apps, as there was no official mobile client for years. Plus - it's the manner in which Reddit has conducted themselves here. Not just the fact they are making the changes, but how they went about making them.
- kstrauser 3y agoI deleted my account when they killed Tweetbot. It was a reminder of how much contempt they felt for their users and it prompted me to do something I'd been idly considering for a while anyway.
- dotnet00 3y agoThey don't rely as much on unpaid outsiders to run their communities. As in, you're more likely to get banned altogether from Twitter or Facebook by some automated system, while Reddit relies on volunteer moderators so most of the time, bans will be on a per sub basis by those volunteers. On top of that, afaik, Facebook and Twitter didn't try to spread lies about 3rd party devs using the drama as leverage to blackmail them. I don't recall much about when Facebook did it, but with Twitter, I think Musk was pretty straight with saying that those 3rd party apps cost money to support and he'd rather do it in house. Finally, Reddit relies on volunteer moderators, but does not (and has for years promised but failed to) offer the associated tools moderators need. So all those are third party things which also end up in doubt with these changes. With the way Reddit have attempted to deny that they want to kill 3rd party apps despite it being obvious, and the lies about devs, I think it'd leave an even more sour taste to everyone if they tried to carve out an exemption for specifically moderation tools, since it'd make it even more apparent what their goal is.
- add-sub-mul-div 3y agoI did delete all my tweets and my Twitter account. But the majority of people don't take action or aren't aware of what's going on, in the general case. So they passively suffer a worsening user experience forever or until there's a big enough crowd for them to follow to a new option. Reddit/Twitter only caring about short term metrics and survival don't care about the further out timeline.
- daveidol 3y agoThis is very helpful! Thanks
- rr808 3y agoPlease delete all my old stuff. Esp the embarrassing comments and likes.
- Gordonjcp 3y agoAm I the only person in the world that just uses a browser to access Reddit? No ads, no nags, no idiotic crippled "app" interface on a postage-stamp screen...
- joemi 3y agoNo. But most people who aren't affected aren't going to take the time to comment and say "This doesn't affect me." Most of the people being vocal about these recent reddit changes are those people affected by the changes. It can feel like it's doom and gloom and the end of reddit when you read comments about it, but in reality, it probably affects a very small percentage of reddit users. (Though from what I hear, it might affect a large percentage of the mods. So _that_ might end up having effects on the larger user base. We'll have to see how that plays out.)
- halfjoking 3y agoToo late? I already lost a ton of data in the covid purge. (was active user of /r/NoNewNormal) Every comment, post or interaction on a banned sub is suddenly deleted permanently with no way to retrieve it. That's really losing data, not a made up crisis of "enshittification." Most people worried about the API change have the "correct politics" so your data is safe. It's only people who participate in wrongthink that need to backup everything.
- xavdid 3y agoYour comments / posts from banned subs are available in your Reddit archive. This tool has iffy support for adding rich data for deleted comments, but I have some plans.
- cpeth 3y agoIs Lemmy the leading candidate for a viable reddit replacement? Are there any other serious efforts in this space? HN has such an insane depth of talent that I am surprised I haven't seen a few ShowHN posts that read something like: "Hi guys, I was bored last weekend so I thought it would be fun to build a reddit clone as a single Rust binary with an imbedded bespoke graph database. It uses a fine tuned LLaMA model for optional auto-moderation. So far it's handling sustained 1.6M / posts sec on my 2015 MacBook Pro. If I have some time this next week I will add distributed mode with Raft or CRDTs. Hope you guys like it."
- reaperman 3y agoThe people who would enjoy building a reddit really don't want to run a reddit. The people who want to run a reddit, shouldn't.
- s1k3s 3y agoI have a 1:1 clone of old.reddit in my PC already, I built it for fun a few months ago. It's a one week task for a senior web developer anyway. The thing is though, most people don't care about these changes and will continue to use reddit with their official apps. It's just not worth the stress IMO.
- KingOfCoders 3y agoAnd then there is IP blacklisting, prevent login after 5 tries, rate managing, all the edge cases ...
- mandmandam 3y ago> most people don't care about these changes and will continue to use reddit with their official apps. Yeah that's probably what the Digg execs said, and StumbleUpon, and the Myspace guys before that. "Most people" will take notice when the people who made Reddit worth looking at leave. It might linger for a while, with rehashed posts from bots and the like, but it's walking dead right now.
- kennethrc 3y agoHuh. So apparently I'm in the minority here- I point a browser at www.reddit.com , skim a few favorite forums, maybe make a comment or two then do something else for the rest of the day. IOW, is the sky not falling for my use-case?
- lytedev 3y agoMost people browse reddit on their primary media consumption device which is their smartphone. Most people use a browser on their phone that is not AdBlock capable. Reddit with ads is obnoxious IMO.
- the_doctah 3y ago>I point a browser at www.reddit.com Shocked anyone tolerates this horrible interface over old.reddit.com
- kennethrc 3y ago"Get New Reddit" is in orange at the top of the window; I'm still using the old interface (via cookies, I guess).
- e40 3y ago@xavdid Very nice tool. I was able to trivially find my earliest post (17 yrs ago). With comments, sorting on the timestamp only went back to 2021, though. Is this a feature?
- xavdid 3y agoThe paging API only gives back 1k comments (which for you is apparently back to 2021). You can request your GDPR archive from Reddit and point the tool at it and you'll have a more complete archive.
- clnq 3y ago> The non-monetary value Reddit as a knowledge store is literally priceless; it's a modern-day Library of Alexandria. Is it though?
- EamonnMR 3y agoIt's mostly a modern day graffiti covered bathroom wall, but it's also unfortunately got some good knowledge trapped in it, from between the collapse of forums and the rise of Discord respectively as primary niche hobby gathering places.
- jsz0 3y agoI got chased off Reddit by a cabal of power hungry woke mods stalking me. I'm going to be celebrating when Reddit becomes the next Digg. They did it to themselves and deserve everything that's coming to them.
- EamonnMR 3y agoAwesome, I really wanted something like this. I have a lot of reddit posts and it would be neat to cringe at my younger self.
- quaintdev 3y agoAll this debate regarding Reddit makes me wonder do we even need these communities. HN sure has value to offer but something like Reddit and YouTube are huge waste of time. Before 2000s people lived their life without these communities. They lived without the constant influx of info and opinions from others. And it seems they were way more happy than us. Probably because they were more focused on solving their own problems than global problems. Who knows if that's exactly the thing we need to solve global problems. None of the online communities are necessary to live a happy life, not even HN.
- xvector 3y agoUseful niche communities for every hobby, profession, etc
- berkle4455 3y ago> do we even need these communities Absolutely. Though I think we go back to individual sites/forums (like HN is for startup/tech basically) instead of centralized platforms like reddit.
- taude 3y agoThese forums still exist and are still out there and used by everyday people. Every one of my reddits that I follow has some other alternative forum that is active. Some examples, of of the top of my head: AVS Forums [1] for home theater advice (instead of r/hometheater), or Home Barista [2] instead of r/espresso, or Road Bike Forums [3] etc. I actually don't mind the reddit charging for their APIs and making money for this convenience of single sign-on, cross searching, discoverability, moderation, user rating, etc... People should just use the regular apps, which work plenty fine, and move on with their life. Or, pay the third-party apps so they can afford the api usage. [1] https://avsforums.com/ https://avsforums.com/ [2] https://www.home-barista.com/ https://www.home-barista.com/ [3] https://www.roadbikereview.com/forums/ https://www.roadbikereview.com/forums/
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- raphaelrk 3y agoI wonder whether AT Proto, the protocol used in bluesky, might make for a good base for a decentralized reddit alternative. - public - extensible - bring your own client - domains as usernames - federated but with escape hatches so you're never tied to a single host - considerations for twitter-scale from the start, eg with "big graph servers" Still under a waitlist / closed for now / under very active development, but seems very promising.
- 26fingies 3y agoimo this is not the beginning of reddit’s enshittification. if one can even pick a beginning that is probably when they started the redesign.
- pixelmonkey 3y agoDone! (And, the process was really easy, just as the blog post described. Requires Python 3.11+.)
- nutate 3y agoThis is akin to saying get all your trash back from the landfill before it closes.
- specialist 3y agoMy misc digital personas have gone to the great /dev/null in the sky many times. BIX, CompuServe, FidoNet, usenet, dozens of email accounts, voicemails, interviews, chat logs, facebook... Heck, I have zero trace of the specialty BBS (and network) I hosted. Which was my everything at the time. Young me thought it'd be great to record and archive my lifestream. Current me is glad it didn't work out. Sure, I may have written some clever bits of code & prose. Now I see great value in forgetting. It's hard to adapt, grow, accept, forgive, and be forward looking while lugging around a lifetime of baggage. If I ever did say something useful, I'm confident someone will pick up the thread. Whether independently or by quoting me, it's all good.
- manicennui 3y agoWhat reddit data do people care about?
- acyou 3y agoIf you hope Reddit dies, you are also indirectly hoping for HN to become more like Reddit, because that will be one of the consequences.
- nunez 3y agoThis only gives you 1000 posts. You'll need to ask Reddit for an archive of all of your data. Their SLO is 30 days. I doubt that now given the madness going on.
- simple10 3y agoThe GDPR / CPRA data request allows for downloading all data. https://www.reddit.com/settings/data-request https://www.reddit.com/settings/data-request Has anyone here tried it? I'm curious what kind of formatting is used for the data dump.
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- WalterBright 3y agoI figure I'll get sent to the gulag sooner or later anyway.
- taylodl 3y agoArchive your Reddit data? You guys must be using Reddit way differently than I am. It's just a social site. The subreddits I subscribe to are hobby-related. People sharing what they're doing with regards to their hobby. What data would I have to archive? If Reddit were to go away I'd just find another similar service allowing me to hangout with people interested in my hobby. What are you guys doing?
- Forricide 3y agoI wrote short stories on Reddit for around two years, mostly for fun and practice. Nothing that needs to be saved, but it's nice to have this kind of thing around if you want to look back in the future!
- palijer 3y agoWriting detailed technical answers to very bespoke problems, writing and creating art as part of a small internet community. Reddit can be used many ways. Maybe archiving your stuff isn't important to you and that is fine.
- taylodl 3y agoWow! Okay, I've learned some people are using Reddit very differently than I've been. I can see why you would want to archive your data. As I side note, I have a peculiar fascination with how people use tools so differently, how they work them into their workflows and make them their own.
- diabolo96 3y agoI always thought "reddit is cesspool" was a meme. I made an account a month ago after lurking for months and good god its worst than i imagined. It was fun when browsing and commenting on small subs but write anything in the bigger one and you'll get swarmed. Just don't steer from any of these narratives : 1.America is always good. They never did anything bad. They saved the world and they're heroes. 2. Apple is god. 2. China and Russia are very bad. American invasions were justified. 3. Chinese,product, companies are all bad. All they do is copy the almighty American companies.
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- CivBase 3y agoIdk what subs you hang out in, but in most of the subs I follow one of the easiest ways to farm upvotes is to simply trash on the USA. I see one of those "Stop complaining about your life. There are literally people living in The USA." memes[0] at least once every couple weeks and it always performs well. "America bad" is a very well known trope in the Reddit comments. [0] https://i.redd.it/you8wci1y7x51.jpg https://i.redd.it/you8wci1y7x51.jpg
- d35007 3y ago> 1.America is always good. They never did anything bad. They saved the world and they're heroes. What subs did you look at? My experience on Reddit is the exact opposite. There's even a subreddit where people whine about people whining about how awful America is: https://old.reddit.com/r/AmericaBad/ https://old.reddit.com/r/AmericaBad/ > 2. Apple is god. What subs did you look at? Even /r/apple frequently hates Apple. > 2. China and Russia are very bad. I do see these sentiments a lot. > American invasions were justified. What subs did you look at? What invasions are we talking about? > 3. Chinese,product, companies are all bad. All they do is copy the almighty American companies. I see this one a lot. Especially on subreddits devoted to military hardware and any time someone mentions TikTok. I think the truth is that people remember the things that evoke an emotional response. It sounds like you get upset when you hear people say bad things about China and when you hear people say good things about America. You forget, or just don't read, all of the comments that contradict those people.
- irrational 3y ago> When I heard the news, I realized I'd be upset if I wasn't able to access my contributions anymore. Clearly all I’ve put on Reddit is dross. I can’t think of anything I’d care about losing.
- remote_phone 3y agoI delete all my accounts every year or so. I don’t understand people’s fascination with their own data online. It’s mostly less than worthless, so their fascination with storing stuff they will never read again is weird. I have a friend who, back in 1998 or 1999, printed out all his emails. He was really active on IRC so he had a lot of email, and he wasnt savvy enough to know he could copy his mbox. He carried those papers around with him for decades and finally realized he never flipped through them once so he recycled them all. I think that’s the case with almost all the data that we produce. It’s not useful for us, but probably useful for companies like Google to create models of our thought patterns.
- MisterBastahrd 3y agoBoy, I sure can't wait until 2 days after this "strike" occurs when people can move on to whatever we're supposed to be outraged about next. Most people (a) have a better version of information actually worth saving already saved somewhere else, and (b) have zero use for their reddit posts without the context surrounding the post.
- bsnnkv 3y agoImo, the most valuable data to save is not what you have posted, but the things that you have read that have made a substantial difference in how you view and exist in the world.
- snicker7 3y agoAKA memes from r/AdviceAnimals
- klabb3 3y agoJust backed up my data, ~60 posts and ~1000 comments. Thank you! Worked flawlessly (except for pythons incredibly convoluted package system for dabblers like me, but that’s not your fault) Feature request: delete all comments and posts (can only be done 1 by 1 afaik). There used to be a nuke Reddit chrome extension but it appears removed and/or out of date.
- xavdid 3y agoGlad it worked well for you! I think that's out of scope for this project, but I've seen some other comments in this thread linking to tools that do just that!
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