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Reddit Undeleted all my posts and comments (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (3 children)

This may be a little bit offtopic, but is there any way to archive my comments/posts in an offline file with links to the original thread if I want to see them again before I delethe them?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

I'm also interested in this. Haven't gotten around to deleting my stuff. Some of the things I've posted over the years can be useful to me, so I wanna keep them.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

If you live in the EU at least, I’m pretty sure much of this outright evil stuff Reddit is doing is illegal. If you want to delete your account and comments, they have to let you.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (5 children)

What happens if you create a fake community that only posts fake ai posts? Who is gonna ban you? It’s a genuine question

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

This sounds illegal

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Shit, this made me look at my okd account and sane thing happened. I wish I was in the EU, I could report them for ignoring my deletion request (I actually also asked for the user to be deleted)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

I'm pretty sure they undeleted mine and my whole account

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I know there are some databases of all Reddit comments prior to... maybe 2015? I forget. Would be cool to port them into an open source clone that isn't profiting off them, just for the times comments were really useful, like solving a tech issue only a couple people had ever documented.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

At one time, Reddit (or at least the core server) was open source. Statistically, it's relatively likely that someone, somewhere forked and is maintaining that code for their own purposes to this day, but I'm not actively aware of any examples.

If someone has been maintaining a fork, I'd love to see the old comment database imported into it and made available, though I don't know offhand what license either the code or the comments were released under.

A FOSS Reddit, without the chaos that took over America during the presidential administration installed in 2016, and branching from there, would be an interesting point of diversion to say the least.

Edit: quickie DDG search found me one fork archived in 2023 and a further form updated a year or so ago. That’s recent enough the damn thing just might build with a little work.

2023 fork of open source reddit

~2024 fork

I’m sure there are others…

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

does this happen to people that deleted their account as well?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Just tell them you live in the EU and you want to exercise your right to be forgotten, therefore you want them to delete all the data they have on you permanently. They'll comply, trust me.

Also you can first download all the data they have on you, as required by the GDPR, if you want to backup some of it.

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