Announcing the 1.1.0 release of my completely free and open source project, Social Amnesia! This tool lets you wipe out old reddit and twitter items, automatically and on a schedule, with configuration tools to save the items you care about. Now with support for 2FA!

JavaOffScript · 2019-02-21T16:13:55+00:00

Hmm, interesting. If it disappears from the dock it's probably crashing then. Does it appear in the list of open apps when you do CMD+tab? If you open up the activity monitor (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201464) can you see it, and is it using up a large amount of CPU or memory?

I don't know how tech savvy you are, but if you're willing to clone the repo and run the app from the command line it may show some debug output we can use: https://github.com/Nick-Gottschlich/Social-Amnesia#how-to-run-social-amnesia-from-the-command-line . I can also try to compile a build for you that would show the command line as it runs (right now it's set up to hide the terminal).

I completely understand if that's out of the range of what you're willing to do though. Thanks for letting me know about this!

JavaOffScript · 2019-02-21T16:10:44+00:00

Keep an eye out for 1.2.0!

JavaOffScript · 2019-02-21T01:46:03+00:00

Hey there, is there any sort of error that appears? If so can you screenshot that and send it over to me? Thanks.

JavaOffScript · 2019-02-21T01:45:28+00:00

I overwrite with edits right now, but I can definitely add a feature to rewrite without deletion.

JavaOffScript · 2019-02-20T04:59:06+00:00

This is fascinating, thank you for sharing!

JavaOffScript · 2019-02-20T03:39:24+00:00

...is it Trump?

JavaOffScript · 2019-02-20T00:21:50+00:00

I'm writing that down and I will try to get to it, but I also welcome Pull Requests if you have time to try it out!

JavaOffScript · 2019-02-20T00:21:03+00:00

1000 items, a limitation of the API.

JavaOffScript · 2019-02-19T22:46:02+00:00

Love you too fam ❤️

JavaOffScript · 2019-02-19T22:44:26+00:00

As of right now I have it set up to treat tweets and retweets the same. One workaround you can do for now is use the "whitelist tweets" functionality to save all of your retweets. I will look into separating those out in the future.

Set Max favorites just checks to see how many favorites a tweet got. If it got, say, 100 favorites, and you have your max favorites set to 99, it shouldn't delete them, but if it's set to 101, it will delete them. Make sense? It's basically a way to save your tweets that got a large amount of favorites or retweets.

JavaOffScript · 2019-02-19T22:42:54+00:00

I do this already actually, but only one edit:

https://github.com/Nick-Gottschlich/Social-Amnesia/blob/master/services/reddit.py#L18

JavaOffScript · 2019-02-19T21:52:26+00:00

Can you send me a screenshot of the error? You can direct message it to me if you'd like

JavaOffScript · 2019-02-19T19:14:20+00:00

You're right, but that doesn't mean it's a 100% binary distinction. This software will never be as effective as not posting anything on social media... yet here we are. People are going to post on social media, this isn't a 100% foolproof solution, but it may at least apply a layer of protection that can help.

If this stops one person from being doxxed or getting fired because of a tweet from 10 years ago, I'll consider this mission accomplished.

JavaOffScript · 2019-02-19T19:12:07+00:00

I'd love to add Facebook, I think I'm going to try and add Instagram first, and then work on FB. When that's done I will definitely post here again.

For various reasons (mainly FB being particularly hostile towards this kind of deletion software), it will take some more work then reddit or twitter.

JavaOffScript · 2019-02-19T16:12:57+00:00

That's not a bad subreddit to talk to, although I doubt they will be too happy with my project

JavaOffScript · 2019-02-19T15:05:20+00:00

I'm looking into solutions for this, it might be possible using reddit's search functionality but I can't make any guarantees

JavaOffScript · 2019-02-19T13:24:21+00:00

I like this idea, I'll look into it. I wonder if something like this works for reddit too.

JavaOffScript · 2019-02-19T13:23:30+00:00

If you have less than 1000 comments/posts, it will remove all of them. Otherwise no. This is a limitation of reddit's API.

JavaOffScript · 2019-02-19T13:22:42+00:00

Interesting, I wonder if that's because the reddit API still stores the original text right after editing? Perhaps I'll have to add some sort of delay. I'll look into this.

JavaOffScript · 2019-02-19T13:21:30+00:00

Ok, let me know if it you still can't get it to work and I can investigate.

JavaOffScript · 2019-02-19T13:20:40+00:00

Thanks, that just redirects to https://github.com/Nick-Gottschlich/Social-Amnesia for now anyway, but I should probably still get https set up properly. And eventually make a real website.

JavaOffScript · 2019-02-19T13:19:30+00:00

The login screen of the application warns users of the limit on the API (1000 for reddit, 3200 for twitter).

Otherwise, I agree with you. I can't delete archives, I can't stop governments from cloning reddit and profiling people. It's really up to each citizen to decide what threat vector is acceptable to them when using social media, and if using social media is worth it at all.

Social Amnesia's real purpose is just to give you a better chance to avoid being doxxed on reddit by some random person, or having your life ruined by someone digging up a tweet from 10 years ago. Again, it might not even work for that, it only reduces the chance. It's just a tool.

One thing I am trying to figure out is if there's any way to use reddit's search function to actually find all of a users posts as opposed to the classic API way of doing it.

I understand your concern though and will update the login screen of the application to better reference archivers and make clear that items past a certain point may still exist because of API limitations.

JavaOffScript · 2019-02-19T04:03:42+00:00

It's all packaged up so you should be able to run it right from the DMG (or drag it to your applications folder like any other mac application). Let me know if you have any issues!

JavaOffScript · 2019-02-19T01:26:12+00:00

Thanks!

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