I deleted all my posts and my account and they restored them all and then permanently banned me. They can recover anything they want to.
Comment on Reddit sues Anthropic, alleging its bots accessed Reddit more than 100,000 times since last July
Almacca@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
Obviously Reddit isn’t averse to bots, just ones that aren’t paying them.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 3 weeks ago
hightrix@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Basically nowhere on the internet does delete mean delete. Nearly everywhere it means archive or hide.
ulu_mulu@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Do you really believe they don’t have backups? Especially since it seems selling content for AI training was their plan for quite a while?
Or that they didn’t make full backups a couple years ago before the protest, anticipating a lot of users would try to delete their comments?
I think the only way to truly delete anything from reddit would be living in EU and enforcing a GDPR request, but even in that case, I believe it would be very difficult to check they actually comply.
General_Effort@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I think the only way to truly delete anything from reddit would be living in EU and enforcing a GDPR request, but even in that case, I believe it would be very difficult to check they actually comply.
Wouldn’t work. GDPR is not copyright. Deleting the username is enough, unless you have doxed yourself in some post.
Rather, it can be argued that GDPR requires restoring comments at least in some situations. Comments may be necessary context to understand replies or even other posts.
yardratianSoma@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
I don’t regret not deleting all my comments. For me, It’s a mishmash of helpful/comedic/observational comments that I don’t care that they have sold off for use as training data.
But, I just got shadowbanned, because of my VPN or something, so they aren’t getting any more!
Pika@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
it wouldnt have mattered anyway if you left during the time most people did. Reddit rolled back mass deleted data and manually deleted accounts during that duration so that comments remained without usernames.
Almacca@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
The fuckers!