So many people seem to recommend this app, but its obviously not open source and requires an email to signup, which seems unnecessary. Are there any good open source alternatives that are a one-stop-shop of sorts rather than a bunch of mottled scripts?

https://redact.dev/

There are grease monkey scripts which should still function on the old.reddit site, even though they haven’t been updated for a long time.

I got a little rust program to replace all my discord messages with quotes from the uncyclopedia.

My rule of thumb: never trust a service whose front page has a “Pricing” tab.

Extending your rule: Never trust a service whose “Pricing” page is hidden.

Earlier today, I encountered a website[0] that does exactly this.

[0] https://anytype.io/

What do you mean by “hidden”? The "Pricing" page is indeed accessible from the menu.

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It can be done fairly easily. It’s literally just using the API of these services. I might try to do this while I am learning how to use Tauri in Rust.

I don’t know of FOSS “one-stop-shops” but these services should have APIs you can use and write scripts to mass-delete. It wouldn’t be particularly hard or time-consuming, and you can also publish your scripts so other people can use them instead of writing your own.

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Interesting tool ! Indeed, thats quiet shady to give ALL your accounts informations to a closed source app…

And alternativeto has no real alternative, rn, but let’s hope something exists doing the same

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