A few days after the API changes were announced, a massive number of old-reddit pages were archived. Technically-minded people should have no issue finding the original comments.
I wonder how many people did this. I did, and deleted my posts as well. But I was mostly a lurker there and so my edits and deletes didn't really mean anything.
The Home Assistant community is very responsive and can help with this kind of stuff if you can't find the answers you need just from searching around.
but TBH i also wiped all my comments clean using powerdeletesuite
Same here! “No IPOs without APIs” is what I spread around 14 years of active Reddit use. Let it sit a few weeks to get backed up a few times and then erased it all.
You didn't wipe your comments, you only created a new version. And if you deleted them, it's only a soft delete. Reddit still holds your data. I proved this by doing a gdpr request and received stuff I'd wiped and deleted four years before.
Nuking your comments doesn't hurt Reddit or Spez, it just hurts other users who are looking for the answers that you gave. If you want to leave Reddit, it's better to just leave