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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.

Chozo ,

The API-based deletion tools usually have to be tuned to delete posts slowly enough to not trigger Reddit's abuse detection. Otherwise, they'll automatically undo bulk changes like that.

There's no way I can manually edit and delete all of my content with the snail's-pace reddit UI

This is, unfortunately, the only way to guarantee that your posts stay deleted. My account was 15 years old. I still log in every few weeks or so to go manually delete more comments. It'll be a while.

Ringmasterincestuous ,

You’re a hero for doing it though… so there’s that 🫡 🦸🏻

gedaliyah OP ,
@gedaliyah@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah, it’s easy enough for reddit to detect rapid edits over a 1-day period and just undo all of them. That seems to be the case here. The edits I did manually were retained.

Transporter_Room_3 ,
@Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website avatar

I had to fiddle with my own on my old laptop, I used one of the plethora of github scripts, but then they changed the api to limit access to (I think) about 100/min, so I just changed the delays to 1000ms so it would only delete 60/min.

Took two weeks, but I still haven’t seen any old content pop back up outside of archives and quotes from other comments in the thread.

I search for a couple random things I remember saying on ddg/bing/Google whenever I think about it, so far nothing.

As I’ve said before about certain countries, you know your platform is doing well when you (essentially) tell people “No, sorry, you can’t leave.”

tiefling ,

I got banned so I can’t even delete my shit :/

(For anyone curious, it was for suggesting that riot police should quit their jobs en masse following RvW. I still stand by that statement)

ShepherdPie ,

Same but my ban was for talking about piracy in /r/movies and then accidently posting there again months later on one of my alt accounts.

Kecessa ,

Mine was for arguing with the BreadTube mod after he banned me for asking “Once you get rid of polices what’s the plan exactly? A burglar enters your house, what then?”

Chozo ,

I had a site-wide, week-long ban for saying that Nazis who got punched in the face deserved it. Fuck that place, lmao

grue ,

My account was “permanently suspended” for “mod abuse” because I reported misinformation in r/conservative.

GBU_28 ,

They could just look 5+ years back, gauge the average rate of comment editing (with falloff for time since comment creation), take that as a standard, and pass that as a filter over any modern edits. You would literally have to edit slower than the average bear, especially accounting for older comments.

intensely_human ,

I’m banned from reddit permanently. But I suspect my information is still there. Unsure what to do about it, aside from embracing the fuckedness.

Sami ,
@Sami@lemmy.zip avatar

Are you sure it was previously deleted stuff? I thought the same thing had happened to me but it was due to subreddits being private at the time of deletion then later coming out of private (some weeks or months later) preventing those then privated posts/comments from being deleted. I think running another automated tool again should do the trick at this point.

dhhyfddehhfyy4673 ,

Also, there's non-rolling limit to how much shows in a user profile. All the delete/modify scripts I've seen work through the user profile, cycling each sorting method to access as much as possible. For old accounts, or just ones with enough activity, there's going to be shit not visible there. Have to search with other means if you want to get everything in that case.

stoly ,

This is my problem. Account is 16 years old and I have nearly 500k karma.

Anti_Iridium ,

Something about selling adding gasoline to the fire?

dual_sport_dork ,
@dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world avatar

There might be something to this. I went and checked just now, prompted by a your comment, and I found a handful (like, six) comments from ages ago on reddit that did not get torched when I did my mass edit-and-delete, somehow. I found these mostly because some punters found them and necroposted on those threads, so I have notifications regarding them.

I found a few more and deleted those by hand, too. Most of them were from the same sub, so that sub was probably locked when I did my mass delete.

gedaliyah OP ,
@gedaliyah@lemmy.world avatar

It seems to be undeleted. I confirmed that everything was gone at that time, and I am seeing no obvious pattern so far. I could be mistaken, but that’s how it appears.

dual_sport_dork ,
@dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world avatar

Are you a resident of the EU? If so, I believe you have the legal right to demand that reddit delete all of your data and user content, and by law they must comply.

If you are a US citizen, I believe you have very little recourse in forcing them to delete your data, unless you are a resident of California or Virginia.

mvirts ,

I wonder what the legality of transferring ownership of the account to someone in the EU in order to request gdpr enforcement would be… Or I suppose you could become an EU resident but that would be rather difficult.

linearchaos ,
@linearchaos@lemmy.world avatar

Most likely you could just hit it from a proxy and say you are from the EU.

half_built_pyramids ,

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

cupcakezealot ,
@cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

wouldn’t this be against gdpr??

Showroom7561 ,

Really! This has ILLEGAL written all over it!

illi ,

If you are from EU, you might try envoking the GDPR maybe? Though most make it incredibly difficult afaik

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.

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.

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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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.

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.

geekwithsoul ,

This just happened to me as well. Deleted all my stuff about a year ago and even happened to check last week and it was still gone. Saw this and went back to check again just now, and it had all been undeleted.

Update: just realized it’s not everything, just everything more than 5 years old

cm0002 ,

If they’re mass restoring stuff, they’re probably chugging through in batches, betcha if you check in a couple weeks there will be more

originalucifer ,
@originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com avatar

im kinda scared to check. i dont want to see my shit undeleted

bradorsomething ,

Undeleted?

Did you find an email from Ali and her sister?

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.

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