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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.

jerkface ,
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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

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

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

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 ,
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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

bradorsomething ,

Undeleted?

Did you find an email from Ali and her sister?

slurpeesoforion ,

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

hedgehog ,

That’s what the plugin they used did.

RememberTheApollo_ ,

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

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