Works for me on Ubuntu. Instead of using command-line arguments, I put a shreddit.env file in the same directory where my GDPR files were extracted, then did a cd to that directory before running shreddit. I’ve got single quotes around the passwords, etc. in the shreddit.env file.
This is a known problem: https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/47320/PSA-If-you-have-more-than-1000-posts-more-than
Also, you won’t be able to delete anything in private subreddits.
Ask Reddit for your data. Until then, this might still work: https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/59451/Finally-Managed-to-erase-all-1477-of-my-comments#comments
and after you get your GDPR files from Reddit, you can do this: https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/164034/Automated-ways-of-removing-reddit-content
TL;DR: you’ll need the permalinks for older comments if you want to delete them using a script. Otherwise, you’ll have to google them and manually delete everything.
Also, if anyone’s wondering, the format for an extracted comments.csv from the GDPR files you’ll get from reddit is just a flat text file. The first line is (explicitly)
id,permalink,date,ip,subreddit,gildings,link,parent,body,media
and every entry that follows is the id, permalink, etc. so it might be possible to dummy up a comments.csv file by extracting stuff from an archive (as described in the second link above) and use the shreddit program from the third link if you wanted to delete things while waiting for Reddit to fulfill your data request.
I don’t think that’s correct. IIRC, it means you have the right to be forgotten–meaning that if you delete your content they can’t (legally) restore it. It doesn’t mean they’ll do the deleting for you; they’ll just send you a file of the stuff you have that you can then use to guide the deletion process.
I don’t see thier brilliant responses to my discourses now but as you say lurkers do or whatever. That is polluting my discourse and I did not want to talk with this person anymore.
Nope. The discourse ended when you abandoned it. Whether the other person is still shitposting is something you have no control over. I guarantee that if they were enough of an asshole for you to want to block them, any lurker worth their salt’s already aware of their assholishness. And really, it’s kind of silly to concern yourself with the opinions of people who might or might not even be there.
Stop thinking of these exchanges as debates you need to win, and think of them instead as conversations that either are or aren’t worth your time. When you block, you’re making a decision the conversation’s not worth any more of your time, so stop giving it your attention–and that includes wondering what else has been said and what others think of it.
On the other hand, it makes spammy articles from content farms the primary resource to find answers.
Maybe you haven’t noticed, but Reddit is a spammy content farm, too.
lolnope. I’m not that hung up on my ex. Bitch about him to my friends over a beer? Sure. Stalk him and trash his car? That shit’s for losers.
im not saying blocking from responding im saying I disapear to them and they to me.
That’s a hard no. Blocking is for curating your experience, not someone else’s.
Like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grWgQChzDqQ
I like you and you like him and he likes somebody else
The three of us, so full of votes
And yet, we’re all on the shelf
‘Round and ‘round we keep on clickin’
There’s only bots left in this frickin’
Subreddit that’s slowly come unglued
A circle of snoo
I wish that we could take a break
‘Cause even bots get bored
But redditors keep fucking off
To the Fediverse or Discord
So on and on we keep on postin’
To hide that users have been ghostin’
Who wants spam that isn’t even new?
A circle of snoo
A circle of snoo
That’s filled with so much glurge
A circle of snoo
Can’t someone do a purge?
But on and on we keep on postin’
To hide that users have been ghostin’
Who wants spam that isn’t even new?
A circle of snoo
(edited to finish the song because if you’re going to set something to an Archies tune, why not go for maximum suffering?)
Removing any info you can… posts, comments, what you’re subbed to, things you’ve saved, etc.
They didn’t even bother to do an email for the trophy case. /facepalm
I’m thinking AI-generated based on similar past topics.
Don’t delete your account until you’re sure you’ve wiped everything, including stuff that’s more than 1000 comments old and stuff that’s in private subs (which have to be public for you to edit/delete). TBH, I wouldn’t delete your account at all at this time… just wipe it and walk away. That way, if you check back later and your comments have been restored, you can trash them again.
A little searching with DuckDuckGo reveals that this tweet was made in January 2023. Not sure whether it’s also bot-vomited from a previous instance of the same remark. It’s telling that the r/all post doesn’t link to the tweet or give a date.
ETA a link to the tweet in question: https://twitter.com/briantylercohen/status/1617333819660718081
LOL, that’s how Reddit’s traffic is “back to normal”.
You would think that Reddit would have put some new mods in there right away (even if those “new mods” were just socks being staffed by Reddit employees) to put pressure on other subreddits.
That sounds like you’ve deleted your account and you missed getting that post when you were deleting–either because it was over the 1000 limit or because it was in a sub that was private when you were trying to delete things.
I deleted my stuff over a period of several days. Some of those comments are gone entirely (not in the search results), some of them are hits but when you go to the thread, the comment’s been deleted, and some of them are hits where there’s a line of the comment as part of the google search result but when you go to the thread there’s nothing there. So Google’s in the process of forgetting things.
The delete feature seems to have been implemented with the idea of “poster’s remorse”. It’s sufficient for people who want to take back one or two posts they’ve recently made. It’s total shit for mass deletion. Whether that’s intentional or lack of foresight, well, who knows with Reddit?
Since it can’t be said often enough: former redditors, Power Shift Delete isn’t going to work on your older comments (Reddit only indexes the most recent 1000) or anything in a sub that’s gone private. You want to get everything, you’re gonna need to pull a list from a GDPR file or from a torrent of a Reddit archive. I strongly recommend that people delete their posts as best they can but not delete their accounts until they’re sure they’ve gotten everything they want to wipe.
They weren’t working for Reddit; they were working for their community.
I think some of their communities are still in denial. That there’s a deadline of 6/29 for Reddit to make a response is a hint that the mods may come back on the 30th and say, "Reddit’s not changing their stance. We’re setting up a new community on X. "
Okay, so it sounds like you’ve created the Reddit credentials. You also have shreddit installed and your $PATH variable changed, since ‘shreddit --version’ is giving you 0.9.1 instead of an error message.
TBH, I don’t think installing shreddit via cargo creates a shreddit.env file. I just opened a new file in a text editor (I use Pluma), did a copy/paste of the body of the shreddit.env.example file, and then changed the fields to match my account info, client ID, etc.
Then I created a new directory called cargo_shreddit to keep all the mess in one place. I extracted my GDPR files into cargo_shreddit, put my shreddit.env file in there too, changed to that directory, and used the command “shreddit”.
My ISP connection can be flaky, so occasionally it would crap out on me with a panic error–sometimes after deleting 50 entries, sometimes after doing thousands. To deal with that, I made a backup copy of my original comments.csv file, then simply edited my comments.csv file as I went along, keeping the first line of the file (the one that says ‘id,permalink,date,ip,subreddit,gildings,link,parent,body,media’) but deleting the entries for any comments I’d already successfully done. It took several hours to do it all, but you should see a steady stream of messages while it’s happening to let you know which comments it’s working on.
ETA: This is what my shreddit.env file looks like, with all the passwords, etc., changed to random values.
SHREDDIT_USERNAME=‘explodingkitchen’
SHREDDIT_PASSWORD=‘!hKL1ltVc7FbpOa4’
SHREDDIT_CLIENT_ID=‘uj$6LWzilcGPD*3&’
SHREDDIT_CLIENT_SECRET=‘z5&L%cC1Wj#Gid^3QUYMuqv2d#EH#’
SHREDDIT_DRY_RUN=false
SHREDDIT_USER_AGENT=‘ShredditRustClient’
SHREDDIT_EDIT_ONLY=false
SHREDDIT_GDPR_EXPORT_DIR=‘/home/explodingkitchen/cargo_shreddit’
second ETA: And in case you’re wondering whether the problem is with your Reddit credentials, I very much doubt it. I just tried screwing up mine and it gives a distinct error message instead of the blinking cursor of WTF. When I restored them, shreddit worked again, so it’s also not that Reddit’s shut something down.