I found a plug-in for Firefox that deletes all posts and comments from your reddit account. (Power Delete Suite). Now I am in talks with reddit, to have them delete my account and data.
They say that all content will be disassociated when I delete my account but I had them confirm that they won’t recreate it when I have deleted it. They still say that they will retain the IP used for creating the account. Not sure if this is legitimate data redemption after I have asked for my data to be deleted according to GDPR?
> Not sure if this is legitimate data retention
AFAIK that’s not yet been legally established.
GDPR is only concerned about personal data, which is defined as „any information which are related to an identified or identifiable natural person.“
Now reddit‘s argument is that by disassociating the comments from your username they effectively anonymized that data, and then it does no longer fall under GDPR.
It would be interesting to edit every comment with personal data, and any email address you can prove you have access to is considered personal data…