@freemo is there a way to delete all my past posts? This is something I do for twitter and I'm curious of such a feature exists for mastodon

@DavidBond i know you can delete your account, which takes the posts with it. But I dont think you can delete just the posts. You'd have to delete your account then reclaim it then your posts would be wiped.

@DavidBond

Look into mastodon.py - it doesn't provide exactly what you're asking for, but it exposes the tools you'd need to script a solution yourself.

@freemo

@DavidBond

Next time please blur out the word windows on your posts. We have little children here and we dont want to encourage bad life choices. :ablobblastoff:

@khird

@DavidBond

.py is the file extension for Python scripts, not the TLD of a URL. :)

Here's the [software](github.com/halcy/Mastodon.py) and here's the [documentation](mastodonpy.readthedocs.io/en/s).

@freemo

@khird

youll have to install python at a minimum... might need a hand if you never worked with a python script. Be careful.

@DavidBond

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@freemo @khird yeah i'm not smart enough for all that, ill just manually delete my stuff

@DavidBond

I wouldnt go that far... you could probably figure it out without too much difficulty. Would save you a lot of time too.

If you want i could probably do it quicker for you as a moderator then you can manually.

@khird

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