After many days i finally received my GDPR data request, which i supplemented further with reddit-user-to-sqlite, so i have a nice full local copy of my account. Now I’m torn on whether to fully shred the data of the account or just delete it:
- On one side, i highly dislike the idea of willingly contributing to a Wisdom of the Ancients scenario, although it might be a moot point anyway since it looks like Spez wants to wall off Reddit after all
- On the other, fuck Spez and i don’t wanna contribute a single cent to their profits
- And as an additional point, it’s rather unsettling the amount of info you can gather of somebody from their Reddit posts, just from a privacy point of view
What are your opinions on this?
Edit: Just deleted my RemindMeBot reminders, somehow that felt like it had almost the same finality as deleting my account somehow…
Personal opinion: shred it.
Your main argument for not shredding it is because it’ll cause loss of information for the people looking for help and stuff like this, right? But Reddit will end [as you said] walled in or destroyed or become such a hellscape of noise that it won’t matter anyway.
And the more content that you keep there, the more you’re encouraging other people to contribute with that shithole. Their content will get lost too, for the same reason as yours; so by removing it now you’re preventing the loss of future ancient wisdom.
Also, if shredding it, edit the comments beforehand. Otherwise they’ll be reinstated by Pigboy and his Trotters. I personally simply replaced them all with garbage and left the garbage there, but it’s up to you.
IMO shred. We have archives of reddit, we’re not losing data forever. Reddit is losing the data.
I kinda had forgotten about this, true
“To shreds, you say?”
For me, there’s no reason to leave anything useful in that train wreck of a website. No way will I help them cater to advertisers with my own data, now that they made it clear they don’t care about anything else.
Deleted mine due to privacy concerns