5mb tool to delete comments. Also available as an .exe
Feels like smashmouth_heynow.mp3.exe all over again lol
Comment on Why do so many people delete their posts?
skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 2 weeks ago
To prevent annoying trolls from digging through my post history, mostly. I’ve seen people do this on Lemmy, one person even had a stalker that would go server to server to reply angrily to their posts because he felt “wronged” somehow. Plus, nobody is reading this stuff after a month anyway, the only readership of old comments is AI scrapers trying to steal my words for their algorithm.
Of course, deleting stuff on Lemmy doesn’t mean actually deleting anything. You can trivially ignore deletion requests as a server and some seem to keep old copies of deleted content.
There’s no automated way to do it with Lemmy so I’ve written my own automation tool that occasionally runs.
smee@poeng.link 2 weeks ago
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
those need to be reported and banned, their replies mass deleted.
Because we don’t have a proper (or any) system for subscribing to threads. but if I have saved a link for myself for future reference, it’ll be gone!
I’m just saying, don’t be surprised if people start running instances that disobey deletions
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
I gotta be honest. Idk how there isn’t a removededit for lemmy yet.