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[-] forgotmylastusername@lemmy.ml 33 points 6 months ago

FYI: reddit orphans content. In other words your posts/comments are undeletable.

I found instances of such late last year by way of search results. I clicked a username to see more posts by that account. The only content on their profile page was a final deletion message about the API changes.

Their post history was discoverable by using " site:reddit.com" on Google. All of their posts/comments still show up under their username instead of the normal [deleted]. Clicking the username takes you to their empty profile page.

So what we know from this now is that reddit has been saving original submissions. Whereas before their claim was that only the last edits are stored. Which is why the deletion scipts became a thing. People took it on good faith that we could delete our posts. At some point they stopped doing that. Or perhaps it was all a lie the whole time. Who knows.

[-] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

What happens if you edit every other post with absolute nonsense sentences? I doubt they have a way to go through that?

[-] trolololol@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

Are you saying the original answers are not nonsense already?

[-] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 months ago

Lol no. I just really want to invent some insane words, forget about them and then see them years later in some media publication that wasn't properly reviewed and edited.

[-] trolololol@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Chaotic evil! Where do I sign up?

[-] Robaque@feddit.it 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Finally a good use for LLMs

[-] forgotmylastusername@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 months ago

I think in theory simple check such as edits to the majority of a profile would be enough to detect it.

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

They would probably notice and roll them back. Bulk edits raise some red flags.

[-] mbirth@lemmy.mbirth.uk 1 points 6 months ago

This is how I cleaned (most) of my old posts: Searched them via Google. As they’re posted under my username I was able to change them into nonsense before deleting then. Even though they never appeared under my profile anymore.

[-] RoosterBoy@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

No, that's Google keeping the content of the pages they scraped at the time they scraped them.

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