Normally, transcription like this will take a long time. However, since it’s largely text based (e-mails, viewing reddit) and relatively short. It was pretty easy to transcribe to text. With the help of some macOS features like copying and pasting from video, it became a non-trivial task.

I think I spent more time on formatting rather than on transcription.

They are required to comply with it if they want to offer services to European customers. If they don’t comply with the local regulation they will face fines and if they don’t pay them and become compliant, they might have their access blocked from within the EU.

The same is true for Brazil, which has similar legislation to the GDPR to protect Brazilian users from online services abusive practices regarding their data. Services can and have been blocked in Brazil for failing to comply with local regulations.

They are required to comply with the GDPR to operate in Europe.

The same way they have with Facebook, Google etc. If they continue to do business in Europe with European users, they comply with European law or get fined significant amounts.

Reddit has its European headquarters in Ireland… And its absolutely legally required to follow our laws.

It’s either comply with laws regarding EU users or get blocked from operating in EU countries, I’m not sure of the entire process though

By this magic where they OPERATE IN EUROPE.

Yeah, they have to obey the law wherever they operate.

I agree that if Reddit is doing that, then that is unacceptable. I have no reason to doubt it, but I have not experienced it myself.

In the code, looks like Lemmy instance administrators are given the option to purge all data associated with the account.

pub struct BanPerson {
...
  /// Optionally remove all their data. Useful for new troll accounts.
  pub remove_data: Option<bool>,
...
}

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/f5209fffc1de527db7ea007d463c158b36fda515/crates/api_common/src/person.rs#L222C1-L230C2

Usage of the “remove_data” boolean optional:

...
    // Remove their data if that's desired
    let remove_data = data.remove_data.unwrap_or(false);
    if remove_data {
      remove_user_data(
        person.id,
        context.pool(),
        context.settings(),
        context.client(),
      )
      .await?;
...

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/f5209fffc1de527db7ea007d463c158b36fda515/crates/api/src/local_user/ban_person.rs#L50C1-L59

From a user perspective, there is a route available for them to delete their account:

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/f5209fffc1de527db7ea007d463c158b36fda515/src/api_routes_http.rs#L39C5-L39C18

But not clear if this removes the account AND posts and comments.

disclaimer: I don’t use rust and not familiar with the common libraries and stdlib, so maybe somebody else can chime in

Spez was a mod of /r/jailbait

Worth noting that at the time users did not need to agree to be a moderator, it could be thrust upon them. I’ve heard that he had comments both on the sub and comments defending it, but have not personally seen any proof of that.

It’s not strictly untrue, but it has implications that I don’t personally quite believe (though I’m willing to change that opinion if somebody has evidence).

Back in the day invitations to be a mod were auto-accepted so the mod of /r/jailbait added him to the modlist

The guy’s a crappy CEO I’m not sure why people have meme about stupid shit like the above to distract from that

Spez was a mod of the jailbait sub before the corporate buyout shut it down. Technically we don’t know if he shared any pictures, but we know he was a mod at one point.

I assume that they just don’t have the infrastructure to do it, otherwise they would just use GDPR code for CCPA.

As a software developer: GDPR was a real pain to refit into an old legacy system. It’s less of a pain if you know beforehand and can plan ahead.

After seeing the comments above, I was about to say precisely this. Getting the data protection authority involved is the most sensible way.

This is for the first time in my real Internet life that someone interrogates my comment (maybe also my real existence) whether if it’s written by AI or not. 🤣😂🤯😭

Lololol but so sad and eerie that netizens have begun to fear of contexts and contents they see on Internet and offline+tangible media probably maliciously generated by AI I hope not (I understand and also experience).

I should embrace and be cleverly prepared to this hardly grasped phenomenon that I’ve been worrying of and never been liking, to my perspective, the coming of real cultural information age.

If anyone uses this, they may need to add a 5-20 second delay between each modification due to Reddits existing API rate changes.

My 11 year old account took about 8 hours to churn through with the script.

It also seems Reddit has turned on rate limiting early. I’ve had to run PDS a number of times to try and get all of my comments. At first I was just editing them, but since it’s rate limited, it would only get 1 comment every few seconds, with the reddit server responding “You’ve done this too much recently, try waiting 3 seconds” in between.

I’ve now moved on to editing and then deleting, since it won’t keep cycling over the edited messages and overwriting them again. I wish PDS would check to see if the comment had already been edited by a previous run and skip if the comment already contained the message chosen to replace. Then you could run it as many times as needed to replace all comments.

Perhaps try a different browser. Worked fine for a couple of accounts in fire fox.

As far as I can tell, GDPR is a defense against corporations who claim to own your data, and hold that data hostage. But it’s not a infallible tool to scrub data from the internet.

Think about a tweet that’s been screenshotted throughout the Internet. Twitter would have to delete the original post and and data they control, but I imagine they have no liability for the outsiders taking screenshots.

How GDPR applies to Lemmy may have to be explored in court.

But I’m just a layperson without specific knowledge of the law, so that legal framework may already exist.