Damn. I keep meaning to use one of those things that deletes all your reddit data. I doubt it'll actually do anything (reddit has no ethical framework so they won't think twice about indexing "deleted" data) but I still need to do that.
- I'd bet a year of my salary that it only deletes it from public view so people can no longer get helped from Reddit's Google search results, but a copy (or more than one copy) is still retained on their internal servers.
  
  The trick is to turn everything into randomized garbage and then delete it later. A lot of those purge services offer that feature. It just swaps the words with others; so on the surface it looks like proper written text, but it makes absolutely no sense.
  Aside from removing your content that they're profiting from, it also feeds AI scrapers pure garbage in the event that your content is restored.
  
  Me, I'd prefer to fill it in with fake news. Let them train their bots on 'taylor swift is an alien psyop trained to infiltrate the highest levels of govt to fulfill the agenda of the radical left instellar warmongering fearlords ...'
  
  I can't tell if this idea is chaotic good, chaotic evil, or chaotic neutral.
  
  So make it like the current iteration of Twitter?
  
  Yep. I did that over a month to all of my posts and comments, then deleted it all a week later before deleting my account.
  
  That's assuming they update their backups, or that if they do update their backups they don't keep historical versions.
  IMO once the data has been shared it is no longer safe and there's nothing we can do.
  
  Maybe I'm miss remembering but weren't they restoring stuff users deleted during the API protest?
  
  They were. One user got so upset he live-streamed himself individually deleting every post and comment he’d ever made. Reddit restored it all right after.
  
  They absolutely were, yeah.
- Yeah, I deleted a banned account only to still find the posts I made still up. So I went in and manually deleted EVEY. SINGLE. ONE.
  Guess what. They still show up.
  
  You posted on their site. It’s their property now.

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