cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/251752
It is important to note that although this may be a result of Reddit’s UI not displaying the content users posted to now-private subreddits, it remains a problem. Additionally, I agree with the author’s comments in the video description, as it appears strategically unrealistic for Reddit to ask that users manually delete the content themselves.
This is particularly true when considering that many automated methods to accomplish this task will be hindered by Reddit’s upcoming API pricing changes. Furthermore, Reddit has demonstrated a recurring pattern of rolling back databases using historical backups, thereby disregarding user deletion requests that were submitted prior to the database rollback.
See similar discussion of this video on Hacker News:
I finally got my personal data export from reddit and am checking the comments to see what is deleted. I did a lot of passes with powerdelete as subs came out of private until nothing showed up. There are no comments showing in my profile.
Going through the links in the export and powerdelete seems to have cleared out recent comments but if I look at links to ones from ten years ago they are mostly still there so I suspect it couldn’t find them.
Currently running a rust version of shreddit in a container using the gdpr export to edit and delete the comments. Seems to be working though it gets exceptions on some comments behind private subs and I have to delete the entry from the csv and re-run but it will probably be patched soon.