Yeah, I deleted a banned account only to still find the posts I made still up. So I went in and manually deleted EVEY. SINGLE. ONE.
Guess what. They still show up.
Comment on Reddit started doing what they always wanted to do, sell user content to AI.
xantoxis@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Damn. I keep meaning to use one of those things that deletes all your reddit data. I doubt it’ll actually do anything (reddit has no ethical framework so they won’t think twice about indexing “deleted” data) but I still need to do that.
Alpha71@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Pratai@lemmy.cafe 10 months ago
You posted on their site. It’s their property now.
ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
I’d bet a year of my salary that it only deletes it from public view so people can no longer get helped from Reddit’s Google search results, but a copy (or more than one copy) is still retained on their internal servers.
Dettweiler42@lemm.ee 10 months ago
The trick is to turn everything into randomized garbage and then delete it later. A lot of those purge services offer that feature. It just swaps the words with others; so on the surface it looks like proper written text, but it makes absolutely no sense.
Aside from removing your content that they’re profiting from, it also feeds AI scrapers pure garbage in the event that your content is restored.
JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Me, I’d prefer to fill it in with fake news. Let them train their bots on ‘taylor swift is an alien psyop trained to infiltrate the highest levels of govt to fulfill the agenda of the radical left instellar warmongering fearlords …’
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I can’t tell if this idea is chaotic good, chaotic evil, or chaotic neutral.
SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
So make it like the current iteration of Twitter?
Crackhappy@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yep. I did that over a month to all of my posts and comments, then deleted it all a week later before deleting my account.
ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
That’s assuming they update their backups, or that if they do update their backups they don’t keep historical versions.
HonorIsDead@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Maybe I’m miss remembering but weren’t they restoring stuff users deleted during the API protest?
philodendron@lemdro.id 10 months ago
They were. One user got so upset he live-streamed himself individually deleting every post and comment he’d ever made. Reddit restored it all right after.
ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
They absolutely were, yeah.