Oh, my sweet summer child. They were never your comments, you just wrote them. They belong to King Steven the Turd, Greediest of Pigboys now.
And authorized third parties too!
More like belongs to the shareholders and AI corporations
That's pretty bold even for a greedy social media sell-out. Glad you found the right tool to counteract, though whether they're really deleted still remains to be seen.
No of course they are not really deleted, just a flag in their SQL database or something, but it's still annoying...
during the API purge the did a mass undeletion of everything, I think. stuff I wrote and deleted years ago was unearthed. People were deleting things en masse and reddit threw a fit. they went beyond undeleting recent things and just restored literally everything, it seems
Reddit has had a “bug” for years where when you delete comments and posts it says they’re deleted but never actually verified they were.
When you delete quickly the API just says it’s deleted. You have to reload and purge multiple times to actually remove your content.
I wouldn’t put it past Reddit to undelete content, but at the time a lot of the complaints Reddit was restoring content were due to this bug.
It’s been a bug for at least 10 years.
Add a "death to musk" comment, guarantee that one won't be restored
Or just "Luigi"
So it’s also really easy to get banned from Reddit. Just suggest that Elon musk is a criminal and should be tried for his crimes and hopefully executed.
They deleted all my comments and profile for me.
You could try a GDPR request. They are required to actually delete it permanently from their database and backups.
Doesnt GDPR just apply to the personal information sored on a website?
Doesn’t this just apply to Europeans in Europe? Reddit is in the US and all.
US companies must comply if they serve European customers. Reddit may make you try to prove you are European and deny it.
I believe under the CCPA which is a California law that is also strong and would also require them removing your data. It might apply to them even if you don’t reside in California since that is where they are based.
I deleted all of my comments years ago, but kept my account because of one subreddit. I just looked and all of my posts have been restored. I just downloaded Redact and started deleting again. On edit: I wish I saw the link to the tool you used before I rushed off to check my Reddit account. I'm unimpressed with Redact.
I just checked mine, my wipe is still complete save for 2 comments I think the tool missed. Around same time, June '23 but later in the month
When I left Reddit I used the tool to change all my comments to "u/Spez is a fucking loser", then once all changed I used it to mass delete, then deleted my account.
I just checked and none of my comments resurfaced. Though maybe my contribution to Reddit was just not important in any useful way.
I went through and manually deleted all of my comments when I left; they're all back again as well.
god damn, that is dirty. i redacted my comments the same way on different accounts when I was done with them. I'll need to be paying closer attention to them.
gross that they'll just do this. they don't know why I buried my accounts, no consideration if undeleting people's posts is safe for them. Are they doing it so companies training LLM's on reddit have access to more text?
Lemmy will also be crawled by AI so what's the point now
At least no one's profiting off that. I'm sure most just scrape reddit the same way but they're still trying to charge people.
I believe that useful knowledge should be open and accessible to everyone for any reason (within reason of course, you might want to keep some things private), so I’m against your decision, but in the end you’re the owner of what you create so it’s your decision
You might answer "who asked?" and you would be right haha
so I’m against your decision
My decision to use Lemmy instead? I've already conceded that it's going to be scraped. You want me to actively line Spez's pockets or something?
My decision to use Lemmy instead?
No. Your decision to remove the content. It mainly harms those who will check the post later
Lmao I never removed my comments. Too lazy and too many accounts.
Good job with the reading comprehension.
"How can you tell?"
AI: "Linux is good and capitalism is bad!"
"Ah."
Lemmy in a nutshell haha
Use redact and have it delete all your comments and replace them with gibberish. Works great.
Do you always post out of ignorance or is this just today?
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