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Several of us have noticed this since the protests and mass exodus started. It did seem that editing then deleting might protect against Reddit's restoration of posts and comments.
Update: Just checked. They've restored a lot of my old posts. This may turn into a years-long game of whack-a-mole trying to actually get our material deleted from that site.
This is exactly why (plus laziness) that I haven't even bothered. They're just going to put them back anyway.
I do have a post pinned in my account directing people to Lemmy though.
I PMed someone on Twitter asking them to use Mastodon. As soon as I sent the PM, Twitter temporarily locked my account for "suspicious activity". I had to basically fill out a captcha to get my account back, but it didn't send the message.
I rewrote it while being more careful with my phrasing and misspelling "mastedon" the second time.
Well, if they did suspend my account for doing that, I doubt I'll ever find out.
Reddit doesn't allow you to delete comments in communities you can't access, which means they can come back when the community is unprivated. This is completely against the GDPR, since they provide no other way for you to delete your comments. And if you are banned, you won't even be able to access your comment history to delete them.
The reason nothing happens is because no one is going to unite under a class action lawsuit to make it happen, and when all is said and done EU politicians don't really listen to these complaints. Try getting in contact with Margrethe Vestager, but don't expect a reply, even though they had no problem doing an interview and Q&A with Reddit Talk under pluralism activists like Akaash Maharaj who let themselves get compromised by reddit's NFT confidence scam. At the end of the day, they'll still maintain their Twitter and Reddit accounts while only paying lip service to the fediverse and ignoring GDPR violations they could themselves claim if they were so interested.
I’m in the US and deleted all my posts & comments months ago. I also deleted my account when the whole ruckus started over there. Just tried this search and low and behold, my old posts came up. Not happy about this.
Should be illegal. Is it not due to GDPR in Europe at least?
It totally is illegal. We just need someone with a good lawyer to push through.
The EU needs to smack Reddit with those fat GDPR-violation fines.
Is there a way OP can report reddit for this?
I have done but from past experience they don't do their job at all.
How about instead of deleting, you edit the comment so it's taken completely out of context. Nonsense words, random poems, list of colors, etc.
They did.
Search engines do not scrape the entire internet every single time someone searches. They do routine scrapes of web content and create a cache of what was there, and search that cache. This is why updates to websites do not always reflect on searches.
You're contents are findable on Google because the last time they bothered to scrape that particular Reddit post was when your comment was intact, and they have not had a need to scrape it again since then.
They are finding comments through Google and are then able to view, edit, and delete them on Reddit. They are not able to view them on their profile page.
OP is not saying that Google's scrape still retains his reddit comments. He's not referring to seeing this information on Google, but on Reddit.
He's saying that reddit is retaining his comments and still serving those comments up when refreshed directly. They're de-linked from his reddit account so he doesn't see them through his reddit account, but the information is restored throughout the reddit site to be viewed.
They also appear when you click through the link and look at the Reddit site. They can be editted and deleted. These are not cached search results Reddit is genuinely showing those comments and yet they can not be found in your account that shows you have no comments at all. That is not what is happening here.
They literally rolled back subreddit comments posts and all by weeks and years. so doesnt surprise me. We were their "item sold" and they aint giving that up. Sadly seems like the protests didnt do much. Some of us left but that about it.
OP said they did exactly that using shreddit.
Edit: Lemmy acting weird, this is supposed to be a comment to user ricecooker.
Sigh, whatever.
I replaced all of mine with “fuck spez” and then deleted my account but not posts, so they’re still there. I went back and checked lol
Would it be better to edit posts and change them to nonsense? Random poems, list of dog breeds, song lyrics, random SQL code...
I changed all my comments over 5 karma with multiple pages of lorem ipsum placeholder text.
I tried to do this with a script but there's a rate limiter on it for editing, but not for deleting. And I had a fuckload of comments.
It's a known issue, only your last 1,000 comments are shown in your user profile so scripts like PowerDeleteSuite won't catch the older ones. Also some of the comments go through, but then you just run the script again. Not much you can do about the older ones though.
An easy test would be to load that thread in incognito and see if it shows the undeleted version.
ive been using Powerdeletesuite for reddit routinely for years. this is nothing new. it's confusing bullshit and inconsistent but not new, at least