You can still try it, some people say it worked for them. If you look at the other comments here you’ll find an updated powerdeletesuite fork to do so if you wish
That doesn't remove your content, it just makes your profile on new reddit blank. You can still see your profile on old reddit if you're logged in (for now).
The second time I tried, I used a forked PDS that had a 5s timeout modification, edit only, no deletes. It edited my comments, but only up to two months. The rest don’t even show on my own profile, but I still find 10 and 11 months old comments if I search online.
How do you find those unedited comments? Anyway, I ran it overnight and it said to have processed all 2k+ comments and I did check many pages (not all) including the last page which had almost 2y old comments, and all of them were edited. I had to make a second pass only because some subs were closed for the blackout and those comments couldn’t be touched
Google searching. How do you see your oldest comments in your own profile? Mine just disappear after the 2 month mark or so. There is nothing. But if I look under saved posts for example, there are old comments still hanging there. I specified to edit everything- gilded, saved, everything
old.reddit allows you to go further back than that. IIRC there’s a setting about how many links to show, that by default is 25 but you can also choose 100. After that, you go to your comments and manually go back and that should allow you to view much older comments.
So you just search “your username + reddit”? I’d like to check if any comments were left untouched!
reddit limits your profile menus (New, Top, Hot & Controversial) to 1,000 comments each. If you have older comments that aren't popular nor controversial, then these won't appear on your profile. In particular, if you have an old Top comment, you might find it deleted but low but positive karma replies left in.
You need to do a GDPR request and feed that into shreddit (the github version, the website charges for the feature). Alternatively, you can get the Pushshift backup of all of reddit from 2022 and run a script to filter out your comments, then feed that into another script. However, shreddit uses the API, so time is limited for that option, and I've also found it panics a lot so you have to keep cutting out the comments and running it again.
Hopefully someone will make a new version that works post 1 July.
The PowerDeleteSuit fork I used had no problems editing 2y old comments. I did a websearch for my username and chose a custom time for the results, which I set to between one day before I created my account and two weeks later. The oldest comment I found by doing so is from ten days after I created my account, and it is edited like I instructed the script to do. Wasn’t a popular comment either, with just 3 upvotes. I think I’m in the clear!
I just tried it for myself, it only made 63 requests to delete 12 comments. These were in my profile, they're ones that have reappeared after being deleted previously.
Meanwhile, if I look in my GDPR files up to where I've got so far with shreddit, the comments are still there, completely untouched.
Maybe you don't have too many comments, so you're within the 1,000 comment limit across your different lists? It's impossible to be sure without having the direct links, either from a GDPR request or the Pushshift backup.
looks great fellow guix user! dwl-guile and dato-guile look very interesting, i may need to switch to wayland soon and try it out (i’m currently using xmonad).
Edelstein, L., and L. A. Segel. “Growth and metabolism in mycelial fungi.” Journal of Theoretical Biology 104.2 (1983): 187-210.
In page 204 it is proposed that this form of growth can occur when the concentration of nutrients in the medium falls within a narrow range. If the nutrient density falls within a range, then the densely growing edge locally depletes the nutrients enough to trigger a metabolic switch that slows down the dense growth and favors outward growth, so the colony produces thinner mycelium that moves into more fertile ground with a higher nutrient density. Arriving at the more nutrient rich region triggers the metabolic switch again and causes the mycelium to grow thicker again, re-starting the cycle.
But it is a very reasonable suggestion that temperature fluctuations - and not the nutrient depletion - is what is triggering the metabolic switch in this case. Especially if you usually follow the same recipe when making the agar plates and most of the colonies don’t show this behavior. The paper that I cited is nice in that it provides a quantitative description about how to model the growth of the mycelium colony. But it is also a bit old - there may be more modern work with a more detailed explanation.
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