• Almacca@aussie.zone
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    2 days ago

    Obviously Reddit isn’t averse to bots scraping the site for data, just ones that aren’t paying them. I’m regretting not going through and systematically deleting all my posts and comments before deleting my account, but I thought that happened automatically.

    • Pika@sh.itjust.works
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      2 days ago

      it wouldnt have mattered anyway if you left during the time most people did. Reddit rolled back mass deleted data and manually deleted accounts during that duration so that comments remained without usernames.

    • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au
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      I deleted all my posts and my account and they restored them all and then permanently banned me. They can recover anything they want to.

      • hightrix@lemmy.world
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        2 days ago

        Basically nowhere on the internet does delete mean delete. Nearly everywhere it means archive or hide.

    • Ulu-Mulu-no-die@lemmy.zip
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      2 days ago

      Do you really believe they don’t have backups? Especially since it seems selling content for AI training was their plan for quite a while?

      Or that they didn’t make full backups a couple years ago before the protest, anticipating a lot of users would try to delete their comments?

      I think the only way to truly delete anything from reddit would be living in EU and enforcing a GDPR request, but even in that case, I believe it would be very difficult to check they actually comply.

      • General_Effort@lemmy.world
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        I think the only way to truly delete anything from reddit would be living in EU and enforcing a GDPR request, but even in that case, I believe it would be very difficult to check they actually comply.

        Wouldn’t work. GDPR is not copyright. Deleting the username is enough, unless you have doxed yourself in some post.

        Rather, it can be argued that GDPR requires restoring comments at least in some situations. Comments may be necessary context to understand replies or even other posts.

    • yardratianSoma@lemmy.ca
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      2 days ago

      I don’t regret not deleting all my comments. For me, It’s a mishmash of helpful/comedic/observational comments that I don’t care that they have sold off for use as training data.

      But, I just got shadowbanned, because of my VPN or something, so they aren’t getting any more!