Has anyone thought about changing all their previous posts and comments to something like, “This has been deleted in protest of Reddit’s privacy policy. Please use lemmy.world instead”? Will I get banned from Reddit (not by mods) if I gradually change my previous posts?
I know that even if you try to manually delete all of your comments, Reddit figures it out and then stops showing you any of your posts, and acts like they deleted them all. Edit: I went back to check and make sure I am not full of shit. Yep, I managed to get through 3 years of posts before they started acting like my account has zero post history. But anything from 4 years back can be easily found googling the username. I have to admit, going back and reading my post history kind of made be feel like a smart funny guy.
reddit used to only show a certain amount of comments (1000?) sorted by each category when checking an account (1000 newest, 1000 most voted, 1000 most controversial and so on), so your old comments wouldn’t show up that way but would still be visible in the threads they were posted in. a few months ago they’ve changed that and now you get to see all of them.