You could use a script like undiscord - it will essentially go through and delete your messages one-by-one. Might take a while. Source: 12 months ago

You can download this script and run it. All the info is there: https://github.com/victornpb/undiscord. Source: 12 months ago

Undiscord will do it. Needs tampermonkey addon, so you have to log in to Discord on a web browser. It does take awhile, especially if you have many many messages it can take hours to run through them all. But you just push the button and off it goes. Source: 12 months ago

I want to suggest to people that they periodically choose to mass delete their own messages from DMs and servers using this browser-based extension: https://github.com/victornpb/undiscord. Source: about 1 year ago

Note that when you delete your Discord account Discord will not delete your messages and they will stay on their servers forever. You need to use a script like this to do that yourself. Source: over 1 year ago

The beginning of enshitification of discord (while 100% expected) for some reason hits harder then any other service I've used throughout all these years. It has entirely replaced social media for me. It just felt more organic to me then anything else. So... Since I've heard about the ads coming to discord, and I have looked into alternatives. They do exist, in varying quality, and there are programs for some of... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

Good time to remind everyone that an open source E2EE decentralized alternative exists for Discord in the form of https://revolt.chat/. - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago

Yeah I've been using them for my indie conferences since 2020. I recently argued [0] that it's not the Year for Matrix, even if Discord now has ads and is doing sketchy stuff typical of enshitification. Unfortunately, I don't see their priorities going towards UX. I'm dropping them. Revolt has promise [1], at the very least as a stopgap. [0] https://youtu.be/WxAO4xDPpkg [1] https://revolt.chat. - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago

Or if you are a dude wanting to chill, hmu at revolt.chat. Source: 6 months ago

I haven't looked in to or tried it let due to still having his migraine and nausea the new UI gave me this morning, but just ran across Revolt in another post. Source: 6 months ago