Reddit decided that i can’t delete my account, i tried several times with no luck. Do you have ideas? Should i get myself banned?
If anyone is considering the same don’t forget to use shreddit first.
this post was submitted on 10 Mar 2025
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Do it on the desktop website, their mobile stuff is broken beyond repair.
They won’t let me kill my account either
Try from desktop. It worked for me.
Go on there and state that you believe that Nazis should be punched. They’ll ban your account.
Don't delete your account. There are browser plugins that will edit all your posts to nonsense to fuck up AI models. Be a burden.
They reverted mine before. It's Reddit, if they don't have backups or methods to detect mass edits or deletions, I'd be shocked.
But the reversion sets them back and requires resources
preserving your data is more valuable for them than the time spent rewinding your account back half an hour.
hell, they might even have it as an automated script that fires off after it detects to many post edits from your account or something.
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Just do something to get it banned.
No, don't. Banned accounts look good in their statistics to investors, like they care about users and enforce strict moderation. Or they shrug you off as part of a bot army or something.
Actual deletion means a conscious act of a user to leave the platform.
i sense reddit will "undelete" accounts in the future much like facebook is doing to show "large number of users"
But OP tried that. What else are they to do?
Escalate it to their support team.
Happened to me too yesterday I had many alt and my account where I do European activism got shadowbanned so I decided to delete everything but they would not let me, the only way is to cause mayhem and break the rules to make them regret keeping you.
Looks like an OS native dialog, which makes me think this is the app? Have you tried doing it directly on the website instead?
Having the same problem with Twitter account lol got banned 2023 for being nafo embassador but now can't delete the account somehow.
Slava Ukraïni 🇺🇦🫶🏽🤍
Just get banned. It's pretty easy nowadays.
No, don't. Banned accounts look good in their statistics to investors, like they care about users and enforce strict moderation. Or they shrug you off as part of a bot army or something.
Actual deletion means a conscious act of a user to leave the platform.
Yeah, there's a simple code for it, you just have to type "Luigi spez" and they'll handle this for you.
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Make a comment saying „Luigi is good“ or something like that, that should get rid of your Reddit account.
Just send a GDPR deletion request. You can find ready made texts online. Just plug in your email/username and send it. Make sure to request a confirmation of the deletion.
Wouldn't that require an EU citizenship/ residence? I always assumed that was the case...
That's funny. I live in a small country so I can't stop being banned. All I have to do is comment "hey" and my account is gone instantly.
what small country is that? I've never heard of this
why? does reddit just assume any and all traffic from your country is VPN traffic?
it's not just Reddit. it's more websites every year.
I've worked as a sysadmin at companies who have done it. they blacklist an ASN which covers an entire ISP, or they just straight up ban the entire country. it's the easiest way to get rid of a few kids running penetration scans against the site or whatever. they don't get much revenue from the users in these countries and so they don't care. access to the collective knowledge of humanity is always getting smaller in developing countries.
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All I did was make a scene by arguing with a bunch of circle jerking divas and the power tripping mods got me banned.
Try using the site?
Yey, that worked! Thanks man!
Make sure you go back and delete every comment or posting first.
Doesn't matter don't do it.
A few months back someone posted that they found all of their deleted posts from when the great migration to Lemmy happened. And I checked myself that day and found that a large portion of my posts that I had deleted were restored. And I had verified the day that I had left Reddit that my posts were gone. There was no history on my account. And if I look right now those posts exist again.
I've heard that editing your comments into random sentences is an effective workaround.
You can only go so far back, and then it won't let you edit older posts. I tried many months ago.
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I’ve been trying to delete my Facebook for years
Are people really having trouble with it? I did it several years ago. I recall it being a fairly easy process.
I’m gonna see if that link from the other comment works, but I’ve tried a few times and the page to delete your account mysteriously would never load for me.
Are you using a VPN or browser they don't like? Have you tried on a different device? It might be worth trying.
You are not the only one. I don’t know if this will help you but try https://www.facebook.com/deactivate. I also searched on YouTube and it helped to navigate through a long intensive map out of where to click. I hope this helps you out.
Try the website, old.reddit.com in particular.
So when I deleted my account a few years back, i hade a Firefox script delete all my posts and comments.
Then i created a ticket for support asking to apply my right to be forgotten, according tomy GDPR rights and also a written confirmation that my content would not be recreated after deletion.
They will play hard but just say that you then will need their official information such as conpony name, adress, phone number, email, reg number and preferred communication method for your local data authority to contact them.
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Just stop going there. Delete the app, delete the bookmark, and move on with your life.
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"Oh no. Our automatic door seems to have suffered a unfortunate malfunction while you were trying to leave the premises."
See if you can sell it then lol
56k + karma up for grabs hit me ... where's that polish chick with the dab rig
Eff you, Reddit
You can check out any time you want.
But you can never leave.
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