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[–] DScratch@sh.itjust.works 11 points 10 months ago (3 children)

What are they odds that they kept it in a backup?

[–] Crack0n7uesday@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

Some 4chan users created a backup bot that auto saves every few hours, so if reddit didn't do it already, 4chan has been doing it for a while. The bot was originally made for 4chan but repurposed for other websites, reddit included.

[–] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, it's all too late. Shit, PRISM was 2007, so there's a copy of everything somewhere. Obviously different ends.

[–] Ilgaz@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

Spez like people are even capable of leeching archive.org and still sell the data which was archived for good intentions.

[–] RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 10 months ago

Depends. If they were smart they backed up every content that had a certain number of upvotes and/or a certain number of paragraphs and/or responses. Just to weed out all the 2-3 word comments that no one interacted with. If OP wrote mostly those then Reddit gives a shit about them deleting those.