A few days ago I deleted all of my posts and comments from reddit, but today they somehow reappeared.

I don’t know if that’s a bug or the admins themselves are restoring content, but I’m sure they’d have incentives to do so considering that they make money from your content, whether that is from generated clicks to the website or from selling those data to other companies to train AI models.

  • ImaginarySaffron@kbin.socialOP
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    1 year ago

    I’m not sure if I had more than 1000 comments, but I did manually delete everything that Power Delete Suite didn’t catch. My account was completely empty except for a few comments that I posted after.

    I think this needs more visibility though, maybe a sticky or something. If people delete their accounts after they think they’ve deleted everything, there’s no way to go back and delete the stuff that reappears. Maybe if you’re in the EU you can ask reddit to delete your old posts and comments but I’m not sure.