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They also make it difficult to destroy. Try deleting your post or comment history, and you can only do it slowly one by one, with only a few sketchy tools for making it faster that go against their terms of service.




Compared to HN, which doesn't allow for any comments to be deleted?

HN doesn't require you to give out your name and email

Have ChatGPT code up a script for you, that you can paste into developer tools. It's how I deleted all my content from there.

Other social media do it too. At best you can only delete your entire account.



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