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You're wasting your time, breath, and you're giving bad advice.
Reddit developers and admins have gone on the record multiple times that nothing you delete is ever deleted, nothing you edit is ever deleted, they will restore comments at will, meanwhile you feed the AI maw.
The only solution is get the hell off that platform already.
So you're saying you like to systematically waste your time and effort?
Nothing is truly deleted from the internet, so long as there are archival tools and systems in place that just carts off your "deleted" content somewhere where only companies like Reddit and Facebook know.
These sites are huge data harbors, you've already done your job to them, which was posting and using the site in the first place.
Reminder: Their database has been shown to keep the last version of a comment as well as the current version, and they have repeatedly used this to restore deleted and edited comments.
It would also be trivial for them to keep more previous revisions than that, and to just flag "deleted" comments to not show to users while still keeping them for use in AI training.
The best option is to stop using Reddit entirely.
I do it better and just don't use reddit. They fucked their platform. Let them stew in it.
How about not using it at all?
Deleting your comments isn't going to prevent Reddit from selling your content. It's only going to prevent other people from making use of your content. People like you and I, who might benefit from it.
Not immediately, but if fewer people benefit from Reddit, Reddit loses users; if Reddit loses users, it loses content; if it loses content, it has nothing left to sell.
Granted, the cycle will begin anew elsewhere, but that’s the circle of life. Eventually, someone will invent Usenet and/or slam books again.
Too late, I'm already banned
You know that usually nothing really gets deleted in any production system, right? Everything's just given a "deleted" flag, usually because accidentally deleting something is way too permanent. But in Reddit's case also because they want your data.
So unless you're asking for a GDPR delete every day, you're doing the worst possible thing: feeding Reddit your data while deleting it from the users, meaning no one but Reddit benefits from your content.
I have nothing on there to delete anymore
I just use one of my banned accounts. I can only read stuff and can't type comments since I definitely will at some point if I'm allowed. I like Lemmy, but the fact is that it doesn't have 1% of the more specific content that reddit has.
Yeah, same. I sometimes would like to engage but Reddit is shadow-ban happy anymore. I know the Fediverse has a long way to go, but christ, it'll probably be after we're mostly dead at this point.