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What did you use? I don't really want to just delete everything - heck I wouldn't mind having AI generated a sentence or two to replace all my comments. 🤣
Not the guy you asked but I had chat gpt write up a few paragraphs about how Reddit used to care about it's users and why it sucks now. Then used power delete suite to overwrite every post and comment with it.
I used Power Delete Suite the other day. It takes a while to run because it's scripted vs using API. Instructions were simple and easy to use. Just let it run in a tab in the background and eventually it will work through all your posts or comments. I set it to just edit all my comments. If you leave the text box empty for what you want it edited to it will put random comments in, such as I like coffee. I like hiking. I like reading. I like beer. Etc.
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I used a command line tool that I can't remember the name of and a quick search isn't bringing up but I'll edit this comment when I'm at my laptop.
Edit as promised: I used shreddit. I did come across that while searching earlier but the name didn't ring a bell.
Be warned, if you search for shreddit there is a paid tool of the same name. That is not what I used.
The tool I used allowed me to give it a GDPR download to nuke everything.
I've heard good things about Power Delete Suite too.
If you search for delete all comments you can usually find some js, or greasemonkey pattern, or script, etc.
I've had success using random howtos there. This new TOS change is news to me and I may delete everything again, will share what I used if/when
I used Power Delete Suite and you can set it to edit comments to whatever you want before deleting them. I recommend using something innocuous though as some subs have their AutoMod set to reject spammy looking stuff.
I’ve found that it didn’t work very well for an account that had thousands of years old comments though. I haven’t tried to run it again yet since this was just a couple of days ago but it did a good job editing and deleting newer stuff and getting everything on my less verbose accounts.
It was free and didn’t require giving your login credentials to some third party like shreddit and redact, so just depends on what you’re looking for.