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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • 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.





  • 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.





  • 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?)









  • 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.