Someone posted this over on Reddit right when it happened and I apparently saved it. I'm cleaning out my bookmarks and came across it. I hought you'd like to see why it's good news that we found Lemmy.

Edit: I took a screenshot in case it gets deleted.

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[–] 1 point 3 years ago (2 children)

Is there an easy way to delete or rewrite all my comments in bulk? I looked up something when ask this started, but the resources I found were too complicated

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    Power Delete Suite... but it only works from the comment lists on your profile on old.reddit, which are limited, so it may miss some.

    There is a script that's supposed to run through the comment IDs from the GDPR export, but I haven't managed to run it successfully (yet).

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    I used Redact on android to delete all my reddit comments just before RIF shutdown

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I thought we needed to rewrite them instead of deleting for some reason

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    If you delete comments, they still exist (but are hidden from the public) so reddit can still sell the content/conversation to 3rd parties, eg for training language models. If you edit the comments first, it makes the conversation nonsensical and reddits "product" is less valuable

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