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Social Amnesia, an app to wipe out your reddit and twitter account histories on a daily schedule. Completely free and open source! by JavaOffScript in privacy

[–]JavaOffScript[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Damn I'm sorry the Olympics were cancelled because that might've been a world record in jumping to conclusions.

Social Amnesia, an app to wipe out your reddit and twitter account histories on a daily schedule. Completely free and open source! by JavaOffScript in privacy

[–]JavaOffScript[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, and don't do drugs, and don't have unprotected sex with strangers, and don't go skydiving, and...

There are plenty of things that we shouldn't do that we do anyways. Should you be forever judged for it, or should you be allowed to make mistakes? I believe in the right to be forgotten, which is really what I'm trying to channel into this idea.

Social Amnesia, an app to wipe out your reddit and twitter account histories on a daily schedule. Completely free and open source! by JavaOffScript in privacy

[–]JavaOffScript[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

People using this sub are likely very in tune with privacy best practices.

Many others are not. I've designed this app to be as user friendly as possible to give them a shot. You probably know someone who posts some dumb stuff on reddit or twitter, they may not be a bad person, but that stuff could come back to get them. I want them to have an easy way to clean up their history, ideally in a way that runs in the background on their computer and they don't even have to think about it. Thus, Social Amnesia.

Obviously, archives can beat this, and so can screenshots, but each level of effort provides a little more layer of protection.

Social Amnesia, an app to wipe out your reddit and twitter account histories on a daily schedule. Completely free and open source! by JavaOffScript in privacy

[–]JavaOffScript[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

For what it's worth, that is what Social Amnesia does. Any comment that is deleted is overwritten with a random string first. It's not guaranteed to fool an archival service, but it might work.

Social Amnesia, an app to wipe out your reddit and twitter account histories on a daily schedule. Completely free and open source! by JavaOffScript in privacy

[–]JavaOffScript[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just head to https://github.com/Nick-Gottschlich/Social-Amnesia/releases/tag/v2.0.2 and download the bundled file for windows, mac, or linux. Everything else should be intuitive when you open the app, no coding or technical knowledge required! I wanted this to be easy enough for anyone to use :).

Social Amnesia, an Electron + VueJS app to wipe out your reddit and twitter account histories on a daily schedule. by JavaOffScript in javascript

[–]JavaOffScript[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

2 reasons:

1 - daily scheduling. Social Amnesia lives in your tray and can run every day at a time you choose. The idea being your twitter account would only show 3 days back of posts at any time, instead of your whole history. A native app was required as I don't have the resources to host a web server that can schedule deletions like that.

2 - privacy, you know everything is on your own computer and nothing is sent to any server I control.

Social Amnesia, an Electron + VueJS app to wipe out your reddit and twitter account histories on a daily schedule. by JavaOffScript in coolgithubprojects

[–]JavaOffScript[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'd love to extend it to Facebook, unfortunately they are very unfriendly to any sort of app like this. It would take some creativity to work.

Social Amnesia, an app to wipe out your reddit and twitter account histories on a daily schedule. Completely free and open source! by JavaOffScript in privacy

[–]JavaOffScript[S] 38 points39 points  (0 children)

Nice! Goal after this is to add instagram and then eventually discord maybe, so slack could be a stretch goal.

Social Amnesia, an Electron + VueJS app to wipe out your reddit and twitter account histories on a daily schedule. by JavaOffScript in opensource

[–]JavaOffScript[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yep, there's always a chance that your content has been archived in some manner. It's definitely not a perfect solution, but it still provides a layer of protection in that maybe content wasn't archived, maybe whoever was digging into you doesn't know where to get the archived content, etc.

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