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Sorry for the double reply, I just realised that I misunderstood your question. My bad.

Check this Reddit Data Extractor. Perhaps it should be enough for your user case.

That works great, too, if you want to delete your info and you got more than 1k items in all sorting categories (hot, new, controversial etc.). It's a bit more involved though.

But it also makes them to actively remove your data for you. It's a good punishment for the company. (I feel sorry for the grunts doing this though.)

I thought about it as I was working ironing out the phonotactics of one of my conlangs. And I got pissed that I was only getting garbage.

I'm considering to write a tutorial for that, given that a lot more people might benefit from it. But basically, you can do it manually depending on the amount of stuff and your willingness; that has also side benefits, as it allows you to introspect on what you write and what you share.

It boils down to five steps or so:

1. Filter: separate content (useful info) from noise (useless info).
2. Sort: organise content in a way that you can find it.
3. Contextualise: reword bits of the content to make it useful outside its original context.
4. Format: make it suitable for sharing in the platform of your choice.
5. Share: literally post it.

A few tips:

• Better is enemy of good. Don't think too hard on it when sorting stuff out; you want to do it fast and reach the end, not do it 100% accurately. It's fine for example if a shitpost goes past the radar when you're filtering stuff.
• When filtering, organise the content by length, and look at the shortest pieces of content first. It's easier to decide if they're crap or good stuff this way.
• "Find" and "replace" are godsends. For example if you notice that all your posts/comments with a certain keyword are related to a certain topic, by all means, use that keyword to grab all those posts/comments and organise them. It also helps a lot with formatting.
• Some people have an easier time sorting their stuff in a hierarchy (like: file, subfolder, folder). Some, in tags. It's up to you.
• Which software you're going to use for this is up to you, too. Plain text editor, rich text editor, spreadsheet, it's up to you.
• Threads for helpful hints are great to dump info, as people will look for it there. If there isn't one, you can also create one, just make sure that it's in the right community.
• Often when you're replying helpful questions, the answer doesn't make sense on its own. You can either include the question, or reword the answer to contextualise it. It's up to you.

BONUS: if you do this odds are that your helpful info will be easier for everyone to find than it was in Reddit.

And I really wish that I could do this with my Reddit content, but over the years that site left me so disgusted that I simply shredded it each few months, to avoid contributing. I should've saved it instead. However it's the exact same strategy as I use with my offline notes and computer files, so I know that it works, and it doesn't need any tech knowledge.

Everybody knows that it was bound to happen. Reddit is hopeless and the blackout on its own won't do good in the long run.

That's why I'm trying to kick this off:

I've mourned more for the shells of the eggs that I broke today. That was a tasty omelette.

I'm genuinely happy that Reddit is dying. Yes, it'll lead to some information loss and that's bad, but we've been stuck in that abusive platform for too long. Now at least saner alternatives will get some room to grow.

Why 3x? I'm curious on the number. In an admitted naive way, I'd expect them to demand from the third party app exactly the same as they'd get through the official one.

Let’s hope they walk this back.

I don't hope so. That wasn't the first case of Reddit being user-hostile; it has been doing this for a long time already. I think that it's actually better in the long run if they keep the decision, Reddit undergoes brain drain, and people move out of the site.

I've crossposted this video into the community I've created about the downfall of Reddit. I'll mention here a few highlights from watching it:

Rossmann exposed the blatant difference between the API access prices in Imgur and the ones demanded now by Reddit. I think that this is an amazing point to expose, because it shows that Reddit is lying when it says that it is not trying to kill third party apps.

Rossmann also mentions the impact of this over the blind people. For all intents and purposes, if you're blind then Reddit doesn't want you in their platform.

A rather nice excerpt from the video:

The community will remember what you did, and screwing over vast swaths of disabled people is a really, really great way to look like the type of piece of shit that nobody wants to give money or revenue to, ever again.

I'm in the same bag, I should have ~100 mods. It still feels vanilla - RimWorld, Minecraft, and Factorio feel really weird in this aspect.

I'm mostly into SNES and GBA emulation. Downloaded full packs of ROMs for each.

Currently playing Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones. I avoided this game for a long time due to the bad rep ("it's too easy"), but I've been having fun with it. (Blazing Sword is still better though.)

Death by a specially illiterate Lucifer, I guess?

Context for my username: it's the result of my 15yo edgy self trying to say "lightbringer" in Latin, without knowing how Latin compounds work. ("Lucifer" is fully regular, by the way.) Eventually however I stuck with the username across multiple sites, and it's still going strong two decades later.

Niche. It's a genetics game, where you control a colony of critters that hop from island to island.

It has a thousand flaws, and it gets repetitive/boring over time but damn, the breeding mechanic feels so right. Not just because it's "realistic", but also because it feels sensible and intuitive.