What is the best most effective way to delete my Reddit post history and account.

I have seen people mention programs that they use to go through and delete their entire Reddit history, or edit their posts and replacing the content with a single word, and then deleting their account.

I do not use it like I used to, so I would like to get rid of every digital fingerprint that I can on the site.

Any help or advice would be appreciated!

    • Gmork@lemmy.mlOP
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      1 year ago

      Nope! That is not enough.

      I want to edit every single comment or post that I ever made and replace it with a single word or phrase. Then I want to delete my account and disassociate everything.

      If you delete your account by regular means, if someone has a direct link, they can still view what was originally posted.

      That is why I want to edit everything beforehand so if someone does happen to figure out a direct link they will not see what I originally posted.

      I haven’t posted anything bad. It’s certainly overkill. I don’t ever intend to be Doxxed (Does anyone?), but if someone ever gained access to my Reddit history they could learn quite a lot about me.

      If I can run a simple program or script to tidy things up then I might as well.

      I imagine I will be doing this within the next couple of weeks.

    • Gmork@lemmy.mlOP
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      2 years ago

      That looks really nice. It looks quite thorough as it handles many different services, though I am disappointed it’s not open source.

      I know that I had seen some open source programs or scripts that people used in the past. I believe when I checked them out they were hosted on GitHub, but I have long forgotten what they were.

      Regardless it looks like this program will absolutely do the job, but I’m going to hold out for a few days and see if there any other suggestions.

      Thanks for the help!