This is correct, most of those scripts can only delete 1000 comments from new/top/controversial.
The method to delete all your comments is as follows:
Do a GDPR request for a copy of your data using: https://www.reddit.com/settings/data-request. Wait until you get the zip file, then extract it somewhere.
Download the free utility shreddit from https://github.com/andrewbanchich/shreddit and point it to the directory where you extracted your GDPR data using the --gdpr-export-dir flag.
Thanks for that. It seems to be working for me. I just set it to work on my 12 year old, 13000 comment history.
More like network effect is a motherfucker.
I don't even know. They don't tell you that, all I have is that inbox message and I don't appear to be missing any comments. This is really some Kafkaesque bullshit...
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I general why does there have to be static sidebars that are rarely used. It causes the content body to be squeezed into tiny space.
I think the rationale is that most people use widescreen monitors nowadays, so if you allow the content part to run across the entire width of the screen, it becomes ugly and hard to read. Therefore the middle section gets a limited or fixed width, which in turn then creates two empty columns to the sides that designers are then tempted to fill up with "useful" stuff.
You can try this yourself: paste a long line of text into a notepad window and maximize the window. It is much harder on your eyes to read and focus on the text than if you resized the window to a more reasonable width where the text gets broken up into several lines.
I'm not against this design paradigm per se, but the content width reduction is often overdone, leading to a squeezed feeling like you say. It can also create problems if you have a habit of not using maximized browser windows, but for example a window tiled to one half of the screen. Some of the better sites work around this by having a reactive design that reduces, collapses or removes the sidebars when the window is narrower than a certain width, but many sites don't.
it feels like I've spent hours looking into the dark mayhem, searching for a needle in the haystack.
It feels like digging through someone else's IRC chatlogs in search of an answer.
How is Discord better? It's also a walled garden that doesn't allow 3rd party clients, and it's just a horrible website to run a forum like this. In fact it's just horrible all around.
Yes, I'm subscribed to that community. I hope it will take off, and become one of my main news sources, but for now it's not there yet.
I unsubbed from most of the default reddit subs and from the subs where the mods didn't seem to care about the protest.
For the future, I intend to limit my engagement to a few subreddits related to the war in Ukraine, because that's something I follow closely and care about a lot. The communities on lemmy/kbin just aren't active enough yet to stay up to date.
For me all the dank* and *circlejerk subreddits.
Actually even further than that, even back in the 80s it was apparently used in certain subcultures to distinguish (drug) "addicts" from "normal people".