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I'm blanking out my 10 year old account (after requesting my data dump) sometime around the first if they don't do something to reverse course.

deevious 3y ago
I requested GDPR exports for my accounts 8 days ago, nothing turned up yet. I have shreddit lined up to run as soon as I get my zips.
- Paul-Craft 3y ago
  I've heard of multiple people who have done the same and have had the same problem. It seems either so many people are requesting their data that it's bogging down the process, Reddit is deliberately slow-playing it, or both.
- samstave 3y ago
  Does one have to be an EU citizen to request via GDRP? If so - I made the offer to sell my accounts to any GDRP person for $1 such that I can make those requests for data (ill pay more than $1, its just to make it an actual transaction) I have 17 years of content contributed to reddit... and I'd like to kill it all.
accrual 3y ago
I was curious to see HN's view on removing Reddit account data. I have a couple old accounts (>12 years) with many thousands of comments. My personal perspective is that deleting all these comments, some of which contain technical help, advice, solutions, etc., would really be a net-negative for everyone. I understand wanting to send a message to Reddit leadership, but in reality the blip is so small as to probably not even register. On the other hand, those comments will probably be valuable to someone, somewhere, sometime and all I'd be doing is harming those future readers and salting the metaphorical earth. Looking further into the future, let's assume Reddit collapses in 5 years in 2027. The money is dried up, management is gone, and all that's left are decades of data hopefully archived. Are people 5, 10, 20 years from now going to appreciate that a subset of data was purged in protest? Or are they going to appreciate that they found some useful data still in the archive that might actually help something? I'd rather be in the latter camp. And maybe one day someone will ask their at-home AI bot a question about <niche topic>, and a small part of me will be emitted in the output.
- Nexxxeh 3y ago
  I've been helped by old posts from others on Reddit and elsewhere. It seems like a dick move to delete mine.

deevious 3y ago

I requested GDPR exports for my accounts 8 days ago, nothing turned up yet. I have shreddit lined up to run as soon as I get my zips.

Paul-Craft 3y ago
I've heard of multiple people who have done the same and have had the same problem. It seems either so many people are requesting their data that it's bogging down the process, Reddit is deliberately slow-playing it, or both.
samstave 3y ago
Does one have to be an EU citizen to request via GDRP? If so - I made the offer to sell my accounts to any GDRP person for $1 such that I can make those requests for data (ill pay more than $1, its just to make it an actual transaction) I have 17 years of content contributed to reddit... and I'd like to kill it all.

accrual 3y ago

I was curious to see HN's view on removing Reddit account data. I have a couple old accounts (>12 years) with many thousands of comments. My personal perspective is that deleting all these comments, some of which contain technical help, advice, solutions, etc., would really be a net-negative for everyone. I understand wanting to send a message to Reddit leadership, but in reality the blip is so small as to probably not even register. On the other hand, those comments will probably be valuable to someone, somewhere, sometime and all I'd be doing is harming those future readers and salting the metaphorical earth. Looking further into the future, let's assume Reddit collapses in 5 years in 2027. The money is dried up, management is gone, and all that's left are decades of data hopefully archived. Are people 5, 10, 20 years from now going to appreciate that a subset of data was purged in protest? Or are they going to appreciate that they found some useful data still in the archive that might actually help something? I'd rather be in the latter camp. And maybe one day someone will ask their at-home AI bot a question about <niche topic>, and a small part of me will be emitted in the output.

Nexxxeh 3y ago
I've been helped by old posts from others on Reddit and elsewhere. It seems like a dick move to delete mine.