Canât post a genius idea like this one without posting the links of the tools
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TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world â¨7⊠â¨months⊠ago
I used some tools to corrupt about 10 years of comments and posts of mine.
ElCanut@jlai.lu â¨7⊠â¨months⊠ago
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world â¨7⊠â¨months⊠ago
Its not my idea, but I could probably dig up the tool I used. Dollars to donuts, it doesnât work any more.
This might have been the tool I used. I dont think so because I overwrote everything with one message, but google around youâll find similar.
Maalus@lemmy.world â¨7⊠â¨months⊠ago
If you overwrote with a single message, then your messages are back to what they were.
KnightontheSun@lemmy.world â¨7⊠â¨months⊠ago
Not necessarily true. I overwrote several thousand comments with a different tool and used three different quotes on greed. I have periodically checked and about two dozen came back. I just manually changed them at that point.
RecallMadness@lemmy.nz â¨7⊠â¨months⊠ago
This would be better if it fed the parent comment into ChatGPT prefixed with âcreate a plausible but factually incorrect aggressive response to <comment>â
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world â¨7⊠â¨months⊠ago
be the change you want to see
Sabin10@lemmy.world â¨7⊠â¨months⊠ago
A tool like that would almost definitely require api access to function. If that was still possible, most of us wouldnât be here having this conversation.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world â¨7⊠â¨months⊠ago
A tool like that would almost definitely require api access to function. If that was still possible, most of us wouldnât be here having this conversation.
No it didnât use the API. You had to run it in browser and be logged in to reddit.
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de â¨7⊠â¨months⊠ago
The tool I used had an extension for Firefox. You then used that Reddit extension so you could get more scrolling on your post history. Then you pressed a button and it would insert gibberish for all comments and posts. Then youâd go next page and do it again.
prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works â¨7⊠â¨months⊠ago
Most of them just do webpage stuff via browser extensions.
They just automate it
Ragnarok314159@sopuli.xyz â¨7⊠â¨months⊠ago
I think Reddit caught on to this. I tried destroying my comment history (~7 years with 600k karma) with a few of the available tool on GitHub.
Found my account permabanned next time trying to login. People should attempt to eliminate/poison as much as possible, but Reddit has all the comments and modifications in a database somewhere to sell it all to whatever AI is the highest bidder.
They have to do something to make money after taking away awards. The advertising is absolute shit and not worth the $100 entry fee.
VaultBoyNewVegas@lemmy.world â¨7⊠â¨months⊠ago
I edited mine via a tool to say fuck Reddit and Steve Huffman is a greedy pig boy.
Octopus1348@lemy.lol â¨7⊠â¨months⊠ago
What do you mean by corrupt?
PlasmaDistortion@lemm.ee â¨7⊠â¨months⊠ago
I used a tool that edited my comments to replace it with gibberish. Supposedly Reddit still retains deleted comments but if you edit them, it only keeps the latest version. So by editing it you make the comments worthless.
Octopus1348@lemy.lol â¨7⊠â¨months⊠ago
I also edited my comments to be basically a Lemmy ad and completely deleted the posts except in a few communities where it could be helpful in the future.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world â¨7⊠â¨months⊠ago
I ran a script over all of my comments (through my browser) to edit them into something about how spez had back stabbed the community. I had tens? hundreds of thousands? of comments.
It took several hours to run, but I did a forward pass (newest to oldest) and a backwards pass (oldest to newest). It bugged out because it had to run so long but I think I got it all.
Iâm not sure this will really do anything because you could pretty easily statistically isolate any one who did what I did, and roll their account history back to a prior state in the training data.
Regardless, it was the least I could do on the way out the door.
teamevil@lemmy.world â¨7⊠â¨months⊠ago
I simply got permabanned and my account disappeared.
Octopus1348@lemy.lol â¨7⊠â¨months⊠ago
I did the same, just edited them to basically say Lemmy better and deleted all my posts, then my account.
JoMiran@lemmy.ml â¨7⊠â¨months⊠ago
It replaces them with jibbersish. I did the same for my 12+ years worth.
mp04610@lemm.ee â¨7⊠â¨months⊠ago
While thatâs the correct thing to do in my opinion, it would be a mistake to assume that Reddit didnât store your original comments.
By corrupting their dataset, you may actually be helping them recognize maliciously edited comments.
khannie@lemmy.world â¨7⊠â¨months⊠ago
They were fairly specific about not doing that (Iâd imagine largely because of GDPR).
I deleted 10 years of âcontentâ before I left and checked their policies. They apparently actually do properly delete from their servers.
Frozengyro@lemmy.world â¨7⊠â¨months⊠ago
Iâve got a bridge in the desert Iâd like to sell you.
joenforcer@midwest.social â¨7⊠â¨months⊠ago
GDPR is no joke. Storing a handful of comments is not worth the penalty if they get caught.
ItsAFake@lemmus.org â¨7⊠â¨months⊠ago
But the GDPR only covers European users tho.
khannie@lemmy.world â¨7⊠â¨months⊠ago
Thatâs true but itâs far easier to globally implement rather than trying to segment. Very difficult to accurately prove a user isnât EU resident across an entire userbase.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world â¨7⊠â¨months⊠ago
Yeah, I mean I knew that when I was doing it.
Sometimes all you can do is make a symbolic gesture that really does nothing, and even if it does nothing, you should still do it.
Probably leaving and supporting lemmy by paying for some developer fees (iâm on the patreon), posting and commenting, probably 100x more damaging to Reddit.
FeelThePower@lemmy.dbzer0.com â¨7⊠â¨months⊠ago
FWIW, I requested an old reddit accounts data the other day under CCPA and all the contamination was in there. My guess is their backend updates every so often. i guess i made a good call to edit my comments and leave them there to simmer before i deleted them along with the account. perhaps this is the way?
flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works â¨7⊠â¨months⊠ago
Mass edits made rapidly are obviously suspect, too⌠If the same user edits anything more than a dozen comments in, say a minute, you have to ask whatâs going on