Hello Lemmy!
How do you recommend dealing with your old reddit account/ posts? Should I delete my old posts or just leave them there? Or maybe replace everything with the same text?
I heard that reddit might be restoring deleted posts. Would editing the post and then deleting it or just editing it be the better alternative to just deleting it?
I’ve seen the post that recommends doing all that BEFORE the API shutdown but now it’s after so I figured maybe something had changed about the tactics?
How did you go about it?
Editing everything to jibberish has a negative impact on Reddit and Google searches of Reddit. It’s better than deleting since it still takes up database space:
Something like DROP_TABLE ALL;
Thanks for the hint. What does
mean?
Also would you say random text that doesn’t make sense is better or just copy pasting a paragraph from somewhere? Or just a one liner like: “Moved to Lemmy.”?
It is kind of a joke.
https://xkcd.com/327
It is SQL command and implies to delete or drop a database table
Ah lol my bad. Thanks for clarifying 😅
No problem there’s a XKCD for almost every thing
Encode a link to lemmy in base64 and put that as your edit.
Would have done it myself if I’d have thought of that before.
Whats the benefit of encoding it? Others might not know what that even is.
If you put “Lemmy” in your comments, Reddit will flag that instantly for removal or restoration (even though this is illegal in EU). If you put gibberish or base64, Reddit is too dumb to know to put that in their automatic detection tools.
Got it. Wow they really seem to go all the way asshole mode on this. Maybe someone sues them. It’s really not acceptable.
I would not make it too easy to filter out the edited comments. So replacing all with the same paragraph may not be the best idea. Some variation apears to be the key to me.
That said, I like the idea of pointing to Lemmy.