Deleting a post is simply marking a piece of text so nobody sees it, but I think the text is still stored in their servers.

Furthermore, a large company like reddit, must backup regularly, meaning there must be several copies of my posts in several SSDs. If the backup once a day… some of my posts are 5 years old.

Companies exist to make money. I suspect they just marked my posts not to be readable by anyone, except staff and they can still monetize them.

Am I wearing a tinfoil hat way too often?

  • Winged_Hussar@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    10 months ago

    I used Power Delete Suite but I had to modify it a bit to put in a delay of about 30-45 seconds for each comment as I was editing the text for each one prior to deleting.

    Took quite a while, but in the end my account was gone. I’m sure reddit could pull stuff from it if they really wanted, but no user facing options exist - even “deleted reddit comment viewers”.

    Edit: I will say that I’m unsure if this still works (or any editing tools) because of the API changes.

    • KnightontheSun@lemmy.world
      3·
      10 months ago

      I put in quotes about spez and greed and let it fly.

      Edit: Oh and I did not delete my account (I had many) because I wanted to circle back to see what they restored. Only a handful ever were. I hand-edited them with more derision and left them.

      • Winged_Hussar@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        Awesome! Make sure to double check some of the comments that they were all updated/deleted. Without a delay mine has trouble and missed a few