Reddit decided that i can’t delete my account, i tried several times with no luck. Do you have ideas? Should i get myself banned?

  • @dmMeYourNudes
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    I’ve been trying to delete my Facebook for years

    • @[email protected]
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      72 hours ago

      Doesn’t matter don’t do it.

      A few months back someone posted that they found all of their deleted posts from when the great migration to Lemmy happened. And I checked myself that day and found that a large portion of my posts that I had deleted were restored. And I had verified the day that I had left Reddit that my posts were gone. There was no history on my account. And if I look right now those posts exist again.

      • Dettweiler
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        11 hour ago

        I recommend using a tool to scramble all of your comments, waiting a while, and then deleting. Check back every few days to verify deletion before ultimately closing your account. For some reason, if a subreddit is hidden or closed, you can delete your messages from there until it’s reopened.

        I spent about 2 weeks deleting my accounts from reddit during the mobile app exodus.

    • @[email protected]
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      4 hours ago

      Only thing i regret about deleting my reddit was not doing this beforehand :l

      Also just remembered i may have some lost account that isnt deleted, shrug

  • @[email protected]
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    15 hours ago

    That’s funny. I live in a small country so I can’t stop being banned. All I have to do is comment “hey” and my account is gone instantly.

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        11 hours ago

        it’s not just Reddit. it’s more websites every year.

        I’ve worked as a sysadmin at companies who have done it. they blacklist an ASN which covers an entire ISP, or they just straight up ban the entire country. it’s the easiest way to get rid of a few kids running penetration scans against the site or whatever. they don’t get much revenue from the users in these countries and so they don’t care. access to the collective knowledge of humanity is always getting smaller in developing countries.

        • @[email protected]
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          99 hours ago

          wow that’s so shitty holy heck. i hope none of those websites are essential, or if they are that you find a free and working VNP

  • ZeroOne
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    You could try posting pro-mangione stuff Or just harden your browser

    • @pantyhosewimp
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      46 hours ago

      You mean stuff like:

      Feels So Good released in 1978 reached number 4 on the Billboard Hot 100.

  • @[email protected]
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    7418 hours ago

    Just send a GDPR deletion request. You can find ready made texts online. Just plug in your email/username and send it. Make sure to request a confirmation of the deletion.

  • @[email protected]
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    8519 hours ago

    Make a comment saying „Luigi is good“ or something like that, that should get rid of your Reddit account.

  • @[email protected]
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    3317 hours ago

    So when I deleted my account a few years back, i hade a Firefox script delete all my posts and comments.

    Then i created a ticket for support asking to apply my right to be forgotten, according tomy GDPR rights and also a written confirmation that my content would not be recreated after deletion.

    They will play hard but just say that you then will need their official information such as conpony name, adress, phone number, email, reg number and preferred communication method for your local data authority to contact them.

    • @[email protected]
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      511 hours ago

      I wonder if one could use a Euro VPN provider to say that they’ve moved to a GDPR country to affect this outcome by having a Euro IP. It might work.

    • @[email protected]
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      615 hours ago

      They complied with my request without any fuss. I didn’t even have access to my account due to losing my 2fa device.