And that's why I deleted all my posts and comments before deleting my account. Sure, they could probably go back and restore it if they wanted but, so far, they haven't.
Glad I landed here on Lemmy.
- I deleted all my comments last year. Recently I got a notification for a response in one of such comments. When I clicked the notification link, my comment and the response were visible. The comment doesn't show up in my profile.
  
  Interesting. I've specifically searched for some fairly unique content (Python scripts, etc) I posted in my time over there, and it hasn't shown up at all.
  So you left your Reddit account intact?
  Edit: Fucking. Cunts. I just searched (had been a few months) and at least some of my data is back. I reckon they've done it ahead of the planned AI move and IPO.
  Edit 2: joke's on them - my posts were linked to an alt account I setup on Pastebin years ago. Still had the creds, so have deleted the pastes. Fuck Reddit. 🤘
  
  Reddit was aggressively rate limiting tools used to delete and edit content in a funny way when the API pricing was announced. The API wouldn’t return an error, the rate limiting was silent, and the tools would report successful deletion or edits even when the edit or deletion wasn’t made.
  I had to modify an existing script to handle the 5-second rate limit and, lieu of deleting, I just rewrote each comment with a farewell.
  Even then I did 3 passes (minor additional edits) in cases Reddit was saving previous edits.
  My content has stayed edited.
  
  Do you still have the Python script available?
  I was fine with keeping my comments up before for the future searchers, but I'm not fine with that shithole making profit off of it.
  
  I recently used shreddit with the --gdpr-export-dir flag and it worked perfectly.
  
  DM’ed you the link.
  Reason: personal GitHub account.
  
  I've had the same experience. Most scripts just erase the comments available directly through your reddit profile, which is limited to the most recent ~2000 posts that you've made. To fully erase anything and everything, you need to request all your data from reddit, download the .zip and feed it into an application like shreddit.
- Presumably most of the current AI models have already had access to reddit data in the past, so I am a bit confused about why they would pay 60 million for it now.
- Yep used 'power delete suite' to delete everything before I left.
  
  Well, I just discovered a bunch of my stuff had been restored. Says deleted account, but it's there.
  
  Deleting your account doesnt delete your content AFAIK.
  
  I was saying elsewhere I deleted all my content before deleting my account, but now some of my content is back.
  
  I don't think I ever actually bothered deleting my content because I suspected that they would just do something like that anyway.
  
  Supposedly, if you deleted it during the blackouts... any sub that was down at the time of deletion, didn't delete comments.
  
  I suspect Reddit holds a perfect copy of every edit, including the first, you’ve ever done. For legal reasons if nothing else. Now also to prevent against perfectly good AI training content to be deleted.
- Yeah! Here, no one gets paid when someone else wants to profit off of all the free user generated content. Wait, what was our goal again?

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