• mp04610@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    While that’s the correct thing to do in my opinion, it would be a mistake to assume that Reddit didn’t store your original comments.

    By corrupting their dataset, you may actually be helping them recognize maliciously edited comments.

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      9 months ago

      it would be a mistake to assume that Reddit didn’t store your original comments.

      They were fairly specific about not doing that (I’d imagine largely because of GDPR).

      I deleted 10 years of “content” before I left and checked their policies. They apparently actually do properly delete from their servers.