Especially if you have an old reddit account.
I have seen too many posts of users complaining about being permanned on their reddit accounts for flimsy reasons. Some of these users have account that are over 10 years old on reddit. If you make the decision to delete your reddit account, do the world a favour by deleting every activity you made on that account. I mean posts, comments, chats, picture uploads - take your time to clean up - ๐. This could take weeks depending on how much data you have amassed with that account, but in the end it is worth it.
If you simply delete your account, reddit holds onto these data. They will sell it, use it to train their AI models, basically using your effort for free after permanently denying you access to their services. Seeing how reddit is trending towards a bot-only outfit, even some moderators are bots, you do not want your data to contribute to that cesspool.
They can fingerprint all they want with data that does not exist. Good luck to them. Please play your part in dealing with the reddit bots/moderators that have found a way to steal your data from under your fingertips without you even knowing.
Uh... but you are not changing anything by individually deleting each post or comment, anyway. They still keep the data, and use it however they like, whether you delete the account or delete the posts.
Additionally, deleting your posts and comments does not change the fact that they have already been scraped and copied into datasets. Nearly the entirety of reddit text-posts and comments have also been archived and are available publicly as a legal torrent. Heres a link to a 4TB Reddit archive from 2005 to 2025 that anyone can access and download: https://academictorrents.com/details/3e3f64dee22dc304cdd2546254ca1f8e8ae542b4
EDIT: there was a more recent reddit archive that includes 2025 data, so I updated the link
I was going to say exactly this. I mean, additionally it's someone still using reddit 2025/2026, so that's that.
But then again, third parties scraping might be hampered by this. So why not. ๐คท