I don’t think people realize that your user information is automatically documented on a not-so regular basis. (For the web archive crawler)
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LodeMike@lemmy.today 3 days ago
Yes I too can use web.archive.org
Xanthrax@lemmy.world 3 days ago
ghosthacked@lemmy.wtf 2 days ago
I follow the lesser evil approach. I’m further away socially, culturally, and politically from the Chinese so all my tech is Chinese. Them having my data is less dangerous to me than just letting the redneck reich get it.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
Sure, but it’s also very likely that reddit is still retaining all posts even “deleted” ones in their database. I can go look at the profiles of people who haven’t used their accounts in 12 years. I can use Arctic Shift to view post people have deleted… even from deleted accounts. All the data is still there. That’s why a few years ago when people were deleting accounts it was widely suggested to edit every comment into gibberish before deletion, so the final edit in the database would be worthless. I remember when there were extension tools to do it like NukeReddit that changed everything to gibberish and then deleted it for you all automatically.
Anyway, I wouldn’t past that fucking pile of shit Steve Huffman to just be passing it off to Palantir because he’s such a little bitch.
umbrella@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
i’m glad to have deleted my account that way before it was cool. fuck reddit.
Xanthrax@lemmy.world 3 days ago
That’s not how it works. I’ll throw myself under the bus for you. Look up “reddit.com/u/1831942” on the web archive. You can see random archives of my profile. It doesn’t matter if you deleted it.
umbrella@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
i don’t really get what i’m seeing. seems like an old account?
saimen@feddit.org 3 days ago
I mean it’s still the internet and we always knew it’s impossible to really delete something from the Internet. There could be someone somewhere who archives all of reddit with all the edits, just because they can.