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"You should probably get started on that thing soon"
"Yeah, any minute now."
"..."
stress induced adrenaline
The main problem is when that stops working.
At one point my body just straight up gave up and I burned out from pushing myself too far, and ever since the panic-induced action has been nonexistent.
Now every time I get into a similar place where adrenaline starts up, I just figuratively collapse and freeze up. Absolutely nothing gets done, and I just feel a strong instinct to escape/hide. My body refuses to work with me, instead forcing me to, you know, actually try to take care of myself or it will go on strike lol
Yeah, trauma response can be strong after a burn out!
You miss the deadline one time, and suddenly it doesn't seem important anymore.
Nothing matters, now I need to make internal motivation
There some internet privacy shit that I'm not aware of?
At lot of people who leave reddit also delete all their comments there. I think this only makes sense if you edit your comment first so the original can't be easily restored.
And if you have a lot of old comments and posts, it's a long and manual process. The automated tools used around the APIcalypse were only able to access about a year of content.
At the time, Reddit was also hiding older posts from history, so it would seem like all of your content was successfully deleted, before making them visible again later on. This is what gave users the impression that their years-old posts were being undeleted, when in fact they were never really deleted in the first place.
To delete posts/comments beyond what the automated tools were able to do, you basically have to edit them and delete them one by one. This is the only reason I haven't fully deleted my Reddit account yet, because all of my stuff will still be on there, just under the name [deleted]. I try to delete about 200 things a week, but it's a long process when you have 13 years of content to work through.
The automated tools are more effective if you get the GDPR data from reddit and point the tool towards it
Point me at one and I'd love to put an end to this Sisyphean task. I have my GDPR data at the ready.
I used this one IIRC: https://github.com/Jelly-Pudding/ereddicator
Cheers! Hope it works well, I've been awaiting the day where I would be able to click on my account name and see only a vast, empty desert of content that once was.
I feel like that's solved on Reddit's end by just making edits to comments separate new comments on the database. So all you're really doing is adding more data that can be easily excluded.
My go-to move for three decades.
But damn it fucks you up like long-term drug use.
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