Redact.dev worked well for me. Whatever you use, run it now before API cutoff, I have no idea what’ll still work after that.

There are plenty of white supremacist fascists out there. People often call them nazis because we don’t give a shit about splitting hairs regarding if they are a member of the actual Nazi party or if they’re just closely related scum.

Oh boy. Try Space Exploration. It’s like Factorio^2.

But to be clear its not just pure pain and suffering with stupid complexity (look up Pyanodons if you want that), SE is actually incredibly well designed as an expansion that isn’t just for masochists. Your first rocket is maybe 30% quicker to launch than in the base game… but launching your first rocket is kinda like building your first inserter: now the game really starts.

Its highly topic dependent:

On political things, speaking for myself, frankly, I learned a few hard lessons over the last 8ish years:

1. Lots of people don’t want to think and didn’t think themselves into supporting what they support.
2. Lots of people are dishonest about why they support/think what they do, even with themselves.
3. Unless somebody is exceptionally rational, you’re not going to change their opinion in a short online argument.

So off the bat my preference is for reasoned discussion, sure. But at the first use of the buzzword-of-the-week (“woke” most prominently right now) you pretty much need to throw all that out on the principal of “you can’t win a chess game against a pigeon”. You can just walk away, sure. But if you’re going to continue to engage you need to be aware that you aren’t actually arguing with the person, you’re performing for an audience and trying to show that the other guys position makes him look stupid, and maybe make him feel stupid too… hopefully if that happens a lot he’ll take a different position (but it’ll be 100% based on feelings, not reason). And this isn’t just online, this is in real life too. I realized that I’m too inclined to just walk away from a stupid argument, which these people view as a “win”. Instead, now I more regularly rudely and publicly make my point and make things socially awkward for everybody. It sucks and I hate it, but they’ll never shut up otherwise and that sucks too so it’s like ripping a bandaid off.

One thing to keep in mind is that there is an active minority of users who are content generators who are much more likely to vote on stuff like that. Then there are a ton of mostly silent read-only users (most of whom don’t even have accounts). If you inconvenience the mostly silent users who are just there for cat pics on their lunch break, some of them will suddenly put in the effort to complain. But they’ll never build a community, you need the active users for that.

I used Redact.dev. And I’m currently running it a second time since it looks like posts in private subreddits that have since re-opened get reverted (presumably the edit doesn’t go through correctly?).

Honestly it kinda just looks like server issues to me with the delete request getting dropped before completion or something, but still showing correctly client-side until re-loaded.

That said, I’ve edited all my comments to gibberish and left them up in that state. I’ll check and see if any are back in a week or two.

EDIT: I take it back, it’s not server issues.
EDIT2: It seems like comments in private subs didn’t properly save the edits.

Proof would be good but honestly this seems pretty likely. Power users like mods are going to want the account recoverability so they’re mostly going to be using authenticated accounts tied to real emails. And reddit sure isn’t going to want them coming back to stir up their users. If I were reddit trying to double down this is absolutely a step I’d take.