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[–] [email protected] 64 points 2 years ago (24 children)

To anyone still on Reddit and/or moderates a sub, I would recommend deleting all of your content. Reddit is going to continue making money off of whatever you post, even if it's helpful. If you're worried about preservation, submit your content through an archiver. Don't let them continue to make money off of you when you are not valued. Down with corporate overlords.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (14 children)

There are reports of them already restoring deleted content, too. They have zero respect for their users' autonomy.

Edit: Someone started a thread about it here

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Just checked my account and all of my posts and comments are back. :[

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (3 children)

No way. Can anyone else confirm of their old user data is back? This is a huge low by Reddit

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think this is also, like, illegal? At least I the EU

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Make sure the press hears about this. We're still ranting about spez editing comments years after the fact; not only disobeying a user's wishes, but violating the law?. That's a whole other kettle of fish.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I deleted everything last week and it remains deleted.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Just checked my account and it's still deleted

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You could try editing all the posts/comments instead - even possibly doing it a few times. I doubt whatever intern they got to start undeleting user data is going to be very thorough and won't look through several edits

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

That's a good idea.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Not sure if it's what happened, but remember that content in private subreddits isn't on your profile and thus cannot be deleted.

When it opens back up, your content will now appear on your profile. (Run it again as-needed)

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