I came across today one of my own comments on Reddit with a search on duckduckgo. It was still intact. The problem is I used shreddit to randomise and delete the entire contents of my account. My account comments and posts all show empty on my account pages on reddit so there should be nothing.

I did a site:reddit.com search using my username and found ~50 comments that Reddit has undeleted but also hide from my own account. I could still edit and delete them. Its curious that they don’t appear on my accounts content on Reddit and yet a search engine can find them and they are still served by Reddit. Ex Reddit users who deleted their account contents should be aware this is happening and report it as a GDPR breach to their respective agencies if they are in the EU if they too find this has occurred.

  • over_clox@lemmy.worldEnglish
    122·
    1 year ago

    OP said they did exactly that using shreddit.

    Edit: Lemmy acting weird, this is supposed to be a comment to user ricecooker.

    Sigh, whatever.

    • Nato Boram@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      You’re allowed to delete comments on Lemmy :)

      (They’ll still be visible to third-party app users but that’s another topic, it should be fixed eventually)