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reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  No, they reverted a lot of that. Bulk restoring even “overwritten” post data several weeks and months after the fact, after most people stopped checking.

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  • AcesFullOfKings@feddit.uk ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I don’t think they did. Unless you have evidence otherwise, I think this is a rumour which comes from a misunderstanding of how deletion tools worked. Until recently, the api only provided access to 1000 posts per feed, i.e. 1000 most recent comments in your /comments/new feed. So if you try to mass delete “everything”, you really only delete the 1k posts from each feed, which can leave a lot of your posts/comments unfindable. This has been a commonly-complainaed about limitation of the API for 15 years. But people would run a “mass deletion” tool, think they’d deleted everything, then later find a comment that wasn’t deleted and they’d get all conspiratorial. I seriously doubt reddit cares about your comment that much, much as we love to hate them.

    I personally wrote a script to scrape search engine results for a “myusername site:reddit.com” search, looking for my comments to delete. After running various mass deletion tools which claimed to have deleted everything (and made my profile look empty, since all feeds had been exhausted), I was able to delete tens of thousands more comments which weren’t findable via the API. I… used reddit a lot.

    The API has recently been updated to allow more (?) posts to be visible. Since that change I was able to view a couple thousand more comments via my profile, so deleted those too. If you have that volume of posts it’s really just a case of trying to find them all however you can. The api has always been limited.

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    • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I don’t think they did. Unless you have evidence otherwise, I think this is a rumour which comes from a misunderstanding of how deletion tools worked.

      They did it to my comments. I had a like 15 year old account, hundreds of thousands of karma, and I deleted all of my comments that I could view in my profiles history and then deleted my account. Days later I found not only was my account undeleted, all of my comments that I deleted were back as if nothing ever happened - and my account was banned.

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  • reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    My deleted posts have stayed deleted so far.

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