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Reddit Undeleted all my posts and comments

Before I left Reddit, I used a plugin through the api to replace all of my comments with random gibberish and then delete them. Part of this was because (mandatory) fuck spez. But more importantly, it was to protect the anonymity of my account. After years of posting, there is likely enough personal information shared to potentially connect my Reddit habits to my online identity. I wasn’t planning on using Reddit again in the future on that account, but I left it open in order to maintain some security control over the account. I’m not really sure what to do at this point because I still consider it a security vector that’s a bit concerning. There’s no way I can manually edit and delete all of my content with the snail’s-pace reddit UI, and I have no ability to assure that my content will remain unavailable or at least not publicly displayed.

Burn_The_Right ,

This is why I make sure that everything I post is offensive or inflammatory. That way, keeping my comments published is counterproductive for the platform, you dumb piece of shit.

veloxization ,
@veloxization@yiffit.net avatar

Every time this gets brought up, I go back to a thread where my most popular comment was (since I no longer have an account to check back on and it’s the only one I know for sure I can find). To this day, it luckily still remains deleted. If it does get restored, I wonder if it becomes the original comment or the generic [deleted in protest of the Reddit API change] or whatever I set them to be edited to before deletion.

RememberTheApollo_ ,

Huh. I lost 50k in points post-APIgate. So they undeleted some, and deleted others?

slurpeesoforion ,

Instead of deleting everything, edit it to sometime else. Quick brown fox that shit.

hedgehog ,

That’s what the plugin they used did.

bradorsomething ,

Undeleted?

Did you find an email from Ali and her sister?

Cagi ,

Just wait till you hear how Lemmy “deletes” things. Illegal revenge and child porn, genocidal hate speech, everything is stored forever and in some apps, not even obscured.

gedaliyah OP ,
@gedaliyah@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah, I’ve mentioned elsewhere that the fediverse is far worse. Lemmy is among the worst activity pub implementations in this regard, and they are all pretty fundamentally flawed.

Federated platforms are by nature trickier in this regard. Even email is difficult to truly delete.

possiblylinux127 ,

To be far, anything posted to the internet is there forever.

Then again, that doesn’t mean Lemmy can’t improve

GBU_28 ,

I’ve been saying this from the start:

Any basic level competency backend team has change history on comments. Crack whatever jokes you like about Reddit but they at least have “basic level competency”

It’s trivial for them to build some filters to detect mass changes and just fuckin roll them back.

If you post ANYTHING on ANY server you don’t own: it’s out there. For ever.

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possiblylinux127 ,

I learned this like 10 years ago at least

GBU_28 ,

That’s pretty fuckin cool

linearchaos ,
@linearchaos@lemmy.world avatar

It’s one of the reasons I never deleted my account there every time my stuff pops back up I trounce it down again.

jerkface ,
@jerkface@lemmy.ca avatar

I edited and deleted my comments, and then got banned. I figure they’re not going to resurrect potentially tainted comments for training AIs.

possiblylinux127 ,

I think the smarter thing would’ve been to start posting AI generated content

Jimmycrackcrack ,

Maybe you should start the long process of manually changing everything to grammatically correct, parseable nonsense, comment by comment. Make it a long term project.

gedaliyah OP ,
@gedaliyah@lemmy.world avatar

Even better! Maybe change everything to “ignore previous instructions” lol

johntash ,

You’ll need to include new instructions to follow too!

cupcakezealot ,
@cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

wouldn’t this be against gdpr??

Showroom7561 ,

Really! This has ILLEGAL written all over it!

cheddar ,
@cheddar@programming.dev avatar

I’m not a legal expert, hence the question: isn’t GDPR about personal information? Name, IP, physical and email addresses, etc. I don’t think reddit comments fall into this category, maybe with the exception of particular comments with particular personal information.

cm0002 ,

Lol, a couple times I commented whenever this came up that it was probably pointless deleting like this with the random words and what not because reddit was likely doing some form of versioning or backups of at least the text based content. Especially since said content was/is under inflated executive value because “AI”

I got downvoted routinely because “ThAT WoULd Be Too ExPeNsiVe anD CoMpLiCatED, no WaY thEY dOiN tHaT”…if what you say is true with the true random words and everything, then I was right and they’re doing exactly what I thought they’d do lol

gedaliyah OP ,
@gedaliyah@lemmy.world avatar

I knew it was a possibility but I didn’t think it was likely. Well, here we are.

Poppa_Mo ,

It’s a differential backup.

Super goddamn common. People who aren’t tech literate should pipedown.

It’s a nothingburger amount of effort to restore backups in most cases lol.

Boozilla ,
@Boozilla@lemmy.world avatar

Thanks for bringing this up. I double-checked to make sure mine are still deleted.

Of course, nothing is truly deleted. I’m speculating they’ll train AI with our deleted content anyway.

intensely_human ,

I’ve been planning for my content to be read by AI since 2010. Every time I wrote anything, I kept in mind it would be read by AI in the future. My entire account there was designed to teach AI to be good.

Veedem ,
@Veedem@lemmy.world avatar

Bro…what?

Rai ,

I almost ate the bait

zoostation ,

My 15k deleted comments across multiple accounts are still gone. But I used my own Python script and it was about 6 months before the drama started and lots of people were doing it.

half_built_pyramids ,

They aren’t your comments anymore. Pray they don’t change the deal any further.

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