Before I left Reddit, I used a plugin through the api to replace all of my comments with random gibberish and then delete them. Part of this was because (mandatory) fuck spez. But more importantly, it was to protect the anonymity of my account. After years of posting, there is likely enough personal information shared to potentially connect my Reddit habits to my online identity. I wasn’t planning on using Reddit again in the future on that account, but I left it open in order to maintain some security control over the account. I’m not really sure what to do at this point because I still consider it a security vector that’s a bit concerning. There’s no way I can manually edit and delete all of my content with the snail’s-pace reddit UI, and I have no ability to assure that my content will remain unavailable or at least not publicly displayed.
I’m not a legal expert, hence the question: isn’t GDPR about personal information? Name, IP, physical and email addresses, etc. I don’t think reddit comments fall into this category, maybe with the exception of particular comments with particular personal information.
it would feel under the right to be forgotten and the data deletion request parts of gdpr
I think that only applies once you’ve actually submitted a GDPR deletion request, not when you use a tool to edit comments.