It looks like people's comments are coming back because they didn't get deleted. From discussion in other threads and on HN, it looks like the comment deletion scripts can't delete comments from subreddits while they are privated.
If you tried deleting comments during the blackout and then some of those unprivated, you would expect to see those comments again.
There is a lot to be upset with Reddit about, but this doesn't seem to be one of them. (at least based on what I've seen)
I had some posts and comments come back twice already. They definitely were gone. I used redact. This morning I deleted 2 posts manually and they were back within 2 hours. I wouldn’t write Reddit off here. I’ll keep my account and will be watching this a little longer.
Ah okay, that makes sense. To be fair, the Reddit admins have been somewhat abusing their power lately so it's understandable to attribute this to acting in bad faith.
That's still a good reason not to delete your account then, so that posts can be deleted as they become available again.
I'm mostly a lurker so haven't made too many posts and probably less than 100 comments in the last 6 years on Reddit. But I've thought about going back through all them and editing them to promote Lemmy in someway.
That’s gotta be a GDPR issue if you’re in the EU, right? I know California has some privacy laws along those lines too?
Is this.... Legal?