Try AI tbh. It’s saved me from tons of forum posts in pursuit of specialized technical knowledge, where I’d often be lucky to get a response at all.
You have downvotes because lemmy hates LLMs so much. It doesn’t reflect reality or the general population. I’m not even critical of the hate, its the communities consensus.
Purity test not found. It’s a tool, it is useful to me and saves me time and trouble.
Are LLMs good or just everything else is so enshitified that they look good in comparison?
It’s annoying, but it had to be done.
Good. Separately, I really wish we had a way to search for useful answers on Lemmy. I feel like much of the reddit was exposed through: “question/key words” site: reddit.com googling
I mean, you can do pretty much that by using one of the largest instances. That is most likely to have content from the largest amount of other instances.
I get what you’re saying it’s just not as practical. Many won’t look for the largest/most relevant instance for their questions.
Fuck Spez!
Awesome!!! Post your questions here instead
Why? so it can be found in search engines when people are looking for answers? Sadly, Lemmy is terrible for searching for answers. Lemmy will likely never replace the true benefits of reddit, search engine indexing for solutions.
Who cares about the search engines? Ask your questions here and get an answer. It just takes longer
Have you ever been on a forum? Like even once? Sort by New and you’ll find dozens of posts where the thread is shitting all over someone for asking something that has already been asked before.
We are in a forum right now dude lol.
But yeah I know how it can be you just need to find a friendly place. Like here!!
What kind of a boy is spez?
A greedy little piggy boy
A reliable source tells me Spez likes to diddle kids and has a micropenis.
Psst hey kid he’s also a lil piss boy.
The fascist kind. A lot of high karma accounts got banned for no reason this last year. Destroying their own creation. Sad.
Cool it with the antifa remarks.
The anti fascist remarks?
Do you have a problem with anti fascists?
its a meme, bro get a grip
Learn to communicate please
Anything for you baby
How is it possible to view deleted comments?
Redlib (alternative front-end to Reddit) puts a link to undelete for removed comments. undelete.pullpush.io
I didn’t mean to ask how one can view the comments. I meant to ask how it’s possible at all in the first place.
Iirc using the ‘delete’ button just does the equivalent of breaking the link to a picture. The data is still there.
This is why, during the mass exodus, many people were sharing scripts to edit your comments with random words before deleting them. Because deleting them leaves the content available in the database, but editing actually overwrites the data. So even if Reddit later decides to undo the deletions, (which they did), then they’ll just be a bunch of gibberish undeleted comments.
Whoa since when can you view removed comments?
libreddit instance allows you to do that. one I’m using right now: https://discuss.whatever.social/
note that you have to kinda bounce around from instance to instance as some will be great for a couple weeks then go away or crash and then you have to find another one.
Good, fuck reddit, anybody with an account should delete all comment history.
I provided quite a few answers in Linux, UNIX, and programming forums. I had to delete my comments multiple times as they kept getting restored. I even had a script that I’d run in my browser that would go through and delete all my posts until a month passed with no restorations, then deleted my account. Reddit should never be a Google result for tech help to begin with. It should take you to documentation.
yeah when I left I deleted everything. When I was talking about it to a friend who uses it, and knows my account, informed me that all my interactions with them are still there. Took a look, and yeah, everything restored.
They just added comment history hiding as well, so now you can’t even tell if some people are engaging in good faith anymore.
So I get banned for reporting trolls because it’s an “Abuse of the Report Button” AND they make it easier to Troll? Do they just want people not using the site?
@QueenHawlSera @nightlily pretty sure that you just have to consider reddit as having been very much broken for a number of years now.
They erroneously ban good users and encourage the trolls.
The only way the experience is bearable is just to block idiots yourself and not engage.I couldn’t even get them to respond to appeals, so I just deleted the fucking account
I was a paying user who accidentally used an alt account a day before a ban was up.
The ban was ridiculous and unjustified but I understand alt accounts are against the rules. My appeal was rejected.
It was stupid if me to pay in the first place. My profile was linked to my real identity as result.
Like I said, I never got a rejection, they just straight up did not answer my appeal.
@QueenHawlSera lol. they blocked my account for having been created to evade a previous ban. Which was odd. First account there.
Figured it was some automated bollocks they’d be able to check.
Appealed, they reinstated it. Then permabanned it later same day for same reason. Gave up.
you cant tell if people are botting/spamming
Are there any tools that can edit your comments to make the ingestion of your data into ai models less worthwhile? Eg. The comments are edited to not be random, superficially look like a human made them, but have very little value when sold by reddit
I forget the tool but every once in a while you’ll see a comment of gibberish words and it says “comment removed thanks to X”.
The service edits the comments instead of erasing them.
I wished I’d deleted all my comments and posts before deleting my account.
Don’t forget they’re also selling all your freely provided content to AI scrapers as well. Fuck Reddit.
They will just put them back. Your stuff isn’t really deleted.
I wonder what happens to your account when you get banned
From what I can tell, it continues to exist, but you can no longer post. They’re not gonna just give up all that free data.
Cool they can have all my toxic hatred against Republicans for their AI to learn from
shadowban will however keeps your posts hidden from the public, but not from reddit itself.
Believe it or not, straight to the AI farm.
Just the cost of pissing off all the highly technical users who helped build the place.
Exactly. Just used Redact myself a few weeks ago.
I wish I’d done that. I deleted my 12 year old account right before learning about these tools.
Thanks! Doing this tomorrow
Let it run during the night, mine took 20 hours or so to finish up. Reddit throttles the requests you make to its API, so it’s slow
I don’t make a habit of trusting Gits with zero stars.
Yes, because large corporations on the Internet definitely wouldn’t try to sway this metric at all, get off your own ass man fuck you
I don’t either, but if no one ever tries github projects with zero stars how are they supposed to get stars?
Explain how any of this is sus, you don’t need to be a programmer:
https://github.com/Aryanb1102/Redact-Reddit-Data-Deleter/blob/main/reddit_data_deleter.py
Ah yes because the thing that makes 140 LOC you can read and understand in five minutes trustworthy is the number of other people who clicked a star button
/s
Read it then. It’s literally a single script with 140 lines.
I wish we were at the point where its applicable to every support question. fuck reddit. the company. not the knowledge base provided by its users.
The comment says removed, but the user says deleted.
And because of the large number of people who not only left Reddit, but burnt bridges in doing so by using tools to delete or garble their entite post history, it’s hard to tell if this was Reddit’s doing or just that of a fed-up user who deleted their own posts when leaving the site.
reddit comments only say removed when the mods or admins remove it. maybe the dude used a script to make all his comments say “I hate Reddit I am going to mail a pipebomb to carlos mencia in retaliation” and reddit nuked them.
What’s wrong with doing that?
unfortunately some souls are lost and still think carlos mencia is funny
SAD!
tools to delete or garble their entite post history
I had a 6 year account when the API scandal hit. Paid a small fee to deny reddit whatever 2 cents my comments are worth.
13 years for me. I killed so much content.
it’s hard to tell if this was Reddit’s doing or just that of a fed-up user who deleted their own posts when leaving
The latter, Reddit doesn’t remove your comments and posts when your account gets deleted.
The former is data they can index for Google searches to make Reddit more valuable as a resource. Reddit will never remove your data.
I used a tool to overwrite mine right before the API bullshit went into effect, but searching for my account, it appears they were all restored.
They repeatedly restored deleted content during the “protests”. Which is why most of us encouraged people to leave their accounts open to go re-wipe when Reddit corporate stopped caring.
I’ve gone back and checked a couple times, this is the first time I’ve seen them restored.
But now the API-based tool i used no longer functions
Rate limited so you might have to run it a few times over the course of a week but https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite
I overwrote all my comments, then deleted them, and they’ve been restored as well. Anyone know a working tool to permanently delete stuff?
There is none.
I’m not going to post links and supporting evidence, I can’t be bothered.
But creators and admins have gone on the record saying you never ever can remove or delete a comment, and every edit is saved. And furthermore, they just restore comments at their whim.
Yes and no.
Yes, they have every single version of every single comment you ever made and can fetch whichever one they want whenever they want.
But reddit is massive. That is WHY it depends so much on unpaid mods (like other social media sites of a much smaller size…).
So unless you are a “top influencer”, the most they’ll do is revert your deleted comments maybe one extra version. So if you use one of the tools that edit it prior to deletion, you are in good-ish shape.
Which is what we saw during the “protests”. Plenty of people (self included) saw their comments come back. But the people who ran one of the editing deleters (with a non-default message) saw their edited messages return. Because that was the most recent on the stack.
That’s what I’ve noticed.
I initially used power delete suite which got maybe half of mine.
Then I went and started manually editing them with random words.
Then started deleting.
I’m very sure that some sub’s have restored deleted comments. Amusingly sometimes with the random words instead of the original.
The only reason I never deleted my account is so that I can go back and mess up or delete stuff as it comes back. Fairly easy to find your comments with a search of your username.
Surprised they haven’t just locked the ability to edit or delete older stuff. It’s not like it ever really gets deleted, just removed from public view.
Give your account to a European user and have them order Reddit to delete everything via gdpr.
a fed-up user who deleted their own posts when leaving the site.
9 times out of 10 that is also Reddit’s doing.
