After 13 years, I had quit reddit 1st June 2023. At the time I joined beehaw (lemmy.world didn’t exist) and used the redact utility to delete all my posts/comments (we could at the time delete instead of mass editing.

I lurk sometimes some niche communities or go on reddit from google search, I never comment or upvote. I sometimes click on my user to see there was no comments/saved/etc.

Yesterday, randomly, I clicked on my username and saw all my 2023 and less post, 13 years of comments, I was like WTF, after 2 years, reddit decided to take an old backup or something and undelete all my comments!!!

As now redact only do mass editing and pretty slowly, I used something else, https://github.com/Jelly-Pudding/ereddicator/tree/main, followed instructions, it deleted ~3600 comments in less than 2 hours.

I’ll monitor from time to time if reddit keep undeleting them, to feed their AI…

  • dhork@lemmy.worldEnglish
    111·
    13 days ago

    Oh, my sweet summer child. They were never your comments, you just wrote them. They belong to King Steven the Turd, Greediest of Pigboys now.

  • TronBronson@lemmy.world
    4·
    12 days ago

    So it’s also really easy to get banned from Reddit. Just suggest that Elon musk is a criminal and should be tried for his crimes and hopefully executed.

    They deleted all my comments and profile for me.

  • A_norny_mousse@feddit.org
    2·
    13 days ago

    That’s pretty bold even for a greedy social media sell-out. Glad you found the right tool to counteract, though whether they’re really deleted still remains to be seen.

  • TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee
    2·
    13 days ago

    during the API purge the did a mass undeletion of everything, I think. stuff I wrote and deleted years ago was unearthed. People were deleting things en masse and reddit threw a fit. they went beyond undeleting recent things and just restored literally everything, it seems

  • LilB0kChoy@midwest.social
    2·
    12 days ago

    When I left Reddit I used the tool to change all my comments to “u/Spez is a fucking loser”, then once all changed I used it to mass delete, then deleted my account.

    I just checked and none of my comments resurfaced. Though maybe my contribution to Reddit was just not important in any useful way.

  • wise_pancake@lemmy.ca
    1·
    13 days ago

    Reddit has had a “bug” for years where when you delete comments and posts it says they’re deleted but never actually verified they were.

    When you delete quickly the API just says it’s deleted. You have to reload and purge multiple times to actually remove your content.

    I wouldn’t put it past Reddit to undelete content, but at the time a lot of the complaints Reddit was restoring content were due to this bug.

    It’s been a bug for at least 10 years.

  • fitgse@sh.itjust.works
    1·
    13 days ago

    You could try a GDPR request. They are required to actually delete it permanently from their database and backups.

      • fitgse@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        12 days ago

        US companies must comply if they serve European customers. Reddit may make you try to prove you are European and deny it.

        I believe under the CCPA which is a California law that is also strong and would also require them removing your data. It might apply to them even if you don’t reside in California since that is where they are based.

    • can@sh.itjust.works
      0·
      12 days ago

      At least no one’s profiting off that. I’m sure most just scrape reddit the same way but they’re still trying to charge people.

      • ipitco@lemmy.super.ynh.fr
        0·
        12 days ago

        I believe that useful knowledge should be open and accessible to everyone for any reason (within reason of course, you might want to keep some things private), so I’m against your decision, but in the end you’re the owner of what you create so it’s your decision

        You might answer “who asked?” and you would be right haha

        • can@sh.itjust.works
          0·
          12 days ago

          so I’m against your decision

          My decision to use Lemmy instead? I’ve already conceded that it’s going to be scraped. You want me to actively line Spez’s pockets or something?

          • ipitco@lemmy.super.ynh.fr
            11·
            12 days ago

            My decision to use Lemmy instead?

            No. Your decision to remove the content. It mainly harms those who will check the post later