• Gabu@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Reddit admins can and have modified users’ posts/comments in the past, however, the recent reports have mostly been traceable to simple rollbacks and de-privatization of subreddits.

      • Boz (he/him)@lemmy.one
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        1 year ago

        Not all of them are from that. I have had manually deleted comments pop back up with no changes to the subreddits in question. Whether it’s malicious is a different question, of course. I kind of doubt anyone is doing it on purpose. But it does show that deletion on Reddit doesn’t work well enough to comply with EU privacy laws, so that’s fun.

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          Neither EU law, not BR law, not US-CA law. They’re in for a rude awakening. Also, PSA, check if your profile has been tampered with in any way, as there has been a Lemmy hack.

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            1 year ago

            Thanks for the heads-up. Apparently my instance (Lemmy.one) hadn’t implemented the feature that introduced the vulnerability, and my profile looks fine, but I am going to be taking extra precautions for a while.

            And yeah, I think Reddit has been coasting on a combination of user goodwill and a lack of attention to their privacy policies, and now that they’ve burned all the goodwill and shown a variety of weaknesses… I’m looking forward to seeing the lawsuits roll in over the next few years.

    • TemporaryBoyfriend
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      Yup. I logged into an old account today and deleted nearly 40 previously-deleted-multiple-times comments.

      It used to be that they would restore years worth of comments overnight, but I imagine that was extraordinarily expensive in terms of I/Os and CPU… Now I think they only restore comments that were viewed by others who are going back and reading old threads. Either way, I’m not deleting my accounts, so that I can continue to keep removing the content I want removed.