As it looks now, Reddit hit another rock bottom and started to restore deleted posts. So I do t know if it is even worth doing that when they still control your data. If you live in a country that must comply with GDPR, file a complain and hopefully it will get enough traction to shut down Reddit for good
this post was submitted on 16 Jun 2023
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A 12 years account with about 4 years' worth of posts took under 10 minutes.
But, it looks like my original posts got restored this morning so I'll time it this time.
I was mostly a lurker so I didn’t have that many comments overall. Using shreddit it took a minute or two.
Why do you guys think that when you edit your post/comment reddit would change this specific entry in the database? Anyone designing such a system would just store a new version and keep the old versions to have a paper trail. Same with deleting, you would only mark it as deleted, never delete anything.
And then it's very easy to roll back.
It's possible, but considering the storage cost of not just storing and caching every message on Reddit, but also every revision of it would likely be prohibitively costly, and probably not a priority, there's just no money on it. It's definitely a possibility, yeah, but at least with them doesn't seem likely. Besides, we cannot prove it one way or the other, so worrying about it seems like a waste of time.