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Social users struggle to clean up old posts and account lists

People with long histories or large followings want to remove old posts, prune follows, and manage unwanted followers or accounts. Doing this one profile or post at a time becomes tedious, and at least one Bluesky cleanup tool was reported as no longer working. A third-party tool could help, but reliable support will vary by platform and its APIs.

For social media users with long histories or large account lists. Mentioned from Aug 2023 to Aug 2026 on Bluesky, GitHub, Hacker News and Stack Exchange.

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65 different people described this problem in 64 separate discussions.

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  1. I didn't go through and delete my comments, because there's easily 10k and that's a manual process
    jmabee.bsky.social on BlueskyJan 2025Has a workaround
  2. And like, yeah the nuclear block works but it’s still a manual process and with 66k followers or so, it’s Sisyphean
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