Do you have evidence or just conspiracy theory gossip?
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Mango@lemmy.world 8 months agoI’d heard that Reddit was going around u deleting stuff.
misophist@lemmy.world 8 months ago
JargonWagon@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Here are some comments about this occurring: programming.dev/comment/6051878
misophist@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yeah, I don’t see anything there about reddit undeleting their deleted posts/comments. Many of us burned our profiles to the ground when we left, but I hadn’t heard of them reverting our edits. I would expect that news to blow up as much as the last time Spez did something like that (may the gods erase his soul and the people forget his name).
JargonWagon@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I remember seeing posts made on Lemmy and Reddit during the great migration where people reported this. Found this post discussing it on Reddit though it seems to be about comment/post history being saved by third parties: reddit.com/…/reports_of_reddit_restoring_deleted_…
Veraxus@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I think that conspiracy grew out of bugs in the mass-deletion tools. I found and reported a few on my way out. I wound up rewriting big chunks of an FOSS tool because Reddit was quietly throttling delete calls to the API. The requests would return 200 codes, but the payloads themselves would include ambiguous “error” text about the throttling behavior.
Once I got the scripts running it took nearly a week for the scripts to fully delete and replace all my content.