I did a GDPR request for all my data, and then aimed the reddit-user-to-sqlite script at it – https://github.com/xavdid/reddit-user-to-sqlite

The metadata.json & recommendation to use datasette to interact with it makes finding old comments super easy. I’ve been going through all my comments sorted by date, clicking each permalink manually and editing-and-deleting them while bored during the workday (meetings, etc.). It has the added benefit of being incredibly difficult to figure out of I’m a bot or not.

I’m thinking of, instead, just pasting the content into chatgpt and editing the responses to leave it in place.

It’s a skill those of us from the IRC days cultivated.

I’m glad I’m not good at it anymore.

Cool, I’ll continue to get my life-saving medications shipped overnight and eat primarily a vegetarian-based diet and not feel bad about it.

I’m hoping that as the platform matures and we start seeing various apps and even more web-based interfaces like _wefwef Voyager, the signup process will be handled by those apps themselves. Like, a bunch of instances agree to be listed or something, and the app randomly selects one to present the new user on signup as a default, which both distributes the “load” across instances, but also provides a simple default.

I know the above proposal has problems; it’s a 30-second spitball idea, not anything I’m spending more time thinking about seriously.

It was invite only for too long, and then, suddenly, it was required for everything Google.

Even then, your rights are limited. You can’t show it publicly, or make a copy except for personal backup, for instance.