I deleted my 11yr high karma account on 1st July. I had another before that which was a couple of years or so old.

I did it in protest but as an interesting side effect, my mental health has improved slightly. Guess actively engaging with toxicity does have an effect.

Good list. Some extra info on xcom, it is basically a remaster of an 80s 8bit game called Laser Squad.

Ah yes, the "Right to be forgotten"

You are correct, of course. However, they are well within their rights to not delete your data. Look up "Legitimate interest" - it's a huge GDPR loophole and widely abused. (Certainly in charity fundraising in which I used to work)

The LI can be for their own business purposes, including profiling, machine learning and of course, advertising.

It can also, and usually is, need to keep data in case they receive a legal order to provide it. In the event of Reddit being used for terrorism purposes (which I'm sure it has, along with every other messaging platform), they will be required to produce that information. Which they can't if it's gone.

We wave the GDPR around like it solves all our problems. And whilst it does add a huge amount of public protection and it's impressive it made it into law given those objecting to it, it does not give you the right to your own data above all else.

Whilst I totally understand your comments and even appreciate them, I still believe I am right.

About four years ago I used NukeReddit - a similar script that loads your comment history, edits each posts, replaces the text with nonsense and saves it. Then deletes the post. I did that because someone got close to identifying me IRL and I didn't want them to, and wanted to tidy up my own data leakage.

After that, I continued using Reddit until the recent nonsense when I decided to leave to good. First, I used Power Delete, repeating it over several days to delete thousands of comments and hundreds of posts. About a week after that, I submitted a GDPR data request. Another week, I deleted my account. About a week after /that/, I received the GDPR response containing several CSV files containing my data. That included posts and comments I'd made from 11 years ago when I had created that account.

That data had survived two quite thorough scrubs and deletions, and whilst I no longer have access to that account, I believe my data and my account are still there - just unavailable to me.

I do know a little about data and databases, and in many mature projects, deleting posts simply sets an is_deleted column with the date it's deleted. Editing a message simply creates a copy of that message, sets the original as is_deleted with a date, and sets the copy with the edited text. That's standard and honestly, I don't know why Reddit would not do that.

Also consider that Reddit may be under a legal obligation NOT to delete data. If there is a criminal investigation at a later date, they will need to be able to provide that information. "Sorry Mr Government, we deleted Bin Laden's posts where he incited terrorism to dozens of other suspects" is not going to be received well.

The bottom line is that only Reddit architects will know for certain, but I'd put real money on betting that I'm right.#

Trump style dead catism?

Keep doing crazy things so people stop talking about your last crazy thing?

We've got over two hundred Rocky/Centos vms. all of them 'pets' that would require manual migration of lots of very different services, many of them bespoke. That's quite a lot of work.

I've heard that a lot, but I think it's an outdated view.

Programming should be easy, or at least easier. That's a view shared by everyone who writes and contributes to documentation on all languages and also those who develop the languages as well. (With varying success).

Every damned one of us was a shit coder when we started, that's part of the process - not least amongst us who are self taught. Yet some go on to do great things and be wonderful coders (including yourself, no doubt).

You had a bad experience, fair enough, but it's a big brush to tar everyone with. I think everyone should be a programmer. If nothing else it teaches them a little how software actually works and that's a good thing.

Bitwarden's great, and I use it myself. But for a company with groups, "secure" sharing and so on, it just doesn't compete on the features. But even so, LP's card is marked for us.

Yes. If you've not been using reddit for a little while, have you noticed any mental health changes?

It's also nice to be here whilst it's still got new-thing energy. I like that.

Agree totally. A great project that just works. Love it

My employer users Lastpass, a commercial solution. That hasn't been a good experience, with downtime, forced re-passwording and worst, having our details stolen from them.

Yep! I have a reminder in my calendar: "Delete reddit user". 11 years of contributions gone. Already deleted all posts and comments, but kept the user back so that if anyone's keeping score, it counts.

I moved from Onenote to Joplin, and it's been faultless. I'm using a free dropbox account for syncing and that works fine too.