• Todgerdickinson@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Yea that’s the problem isn’t it. I had a great idea involving bullshit-efying my comments by editing them slowly with a LLM via long running script and repeatedly over months.

    I realised that they probably don’t delete the original text on edit anyway which, as you say is probably buried in a backup someplace.

    • Ace! _SL/S@ani.social
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      6 months ago

      I don’t think it is in backups only. My guess is they store your full edit history for each comment/post/whatever. Newest one will be shown on the frontend, rest is for data vampires

      • yeehaw@lemmy.ca
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        6 months ago

        This is it exactly. Edits to use are “changed”. To the back end it’s just an iteration while the rest still exist.