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‘Front page of the internet’: how social media’s biggest user protest rocked Reddit
(www.theguardian.com)
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I'd heard that Reddit was going around undeleting stuff.
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. So while the mass delete tool insisted that content had been deleted, large chunks had NOT.
Once I got the scripts running it took nearly a week for the scripts to fully delete and replace all my content.
Do you have evidence or just conspiracy theory gossip?
Here are some comments about this occurring: https://programming.dev/comment/6051878
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).
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: https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/14av2z3/reports_of_reddit_restoring_deleted_commentsposts/
Oh, nice. Yeah, I'm fine with my content being searchable on the great uneddit databases. That's just the nature of the internet -- anything you make public should be assumed to be forever public. It sounds like my deleted content won't be making Spez advertising dollars when people search my old subreddit haunts, which was my goal in deleting my stuff in the first place.