Asklemmy

They don't comply with GDPR. Not sure if it still works, but you can use PowerDeleteSuite to edit and then remove your comments. It's a good idea to keep your account open for another week or so to make sure Reddit doesn't restore deleted comments (they did for a few comments on my account), then delete the account in the preferences tab (I used old reddit to do so)

https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite

To avoid rate limiting, there is a 5 second delay between editing and deleting each comment, so expect it to take a very long time.

To answer your question.

Send Reddit this:

Sample Data Erasure Request (GDPR)

Here is the actual website of the European Union (GDPR) explaining this.

If you end up sueing them, please update us.

Better to overwrite it with a different message. Twice. That makes restoration more difficult.

IMO, don't delete your account. I used to regularly run shreddit to "delete" my history. Same with Twitter and Facebook - I keep my accounts there to prevent hijacking.

Requesting your data (GDPR) and using shreddit with the GDPR setting because deletes all your posts and comments. Then you can delete your account and both your account and posts are gone

I went through and manually deleted seven years of history while watching BattleBots. It was therapeutic. I've left the account open for now just to make sure no skullduggery happens.