cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1180367
There are tools out there that help with this, but the better ones like the one I linked use the API.
I don’t know what will happen to them next month, but if you are thinking about it, keep in mind that they may not be around or work like they do today, and you may have to use other more convoluted tools.
Deleting it decreases the risk of people outside of reddit easily being able to scrape your history, although obviously there are tools out there that archive basically everything that’s posted so nothing’s guaranteed to be erased from the whole internet. There’s a 0% chance that when you “delete” a comment on reddit it’s actually being removed from their backend, it’s just being hidden from public view.