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Reddit may be bringing back deleted comments (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is why I'm not deleting my Reddit account, it's all the "power" we users have over what's going on, they'll have to ban me to stop editing my stuff... and then we'll do the GDPR dance.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I wish I kept mine.

I've run PowerDelete, and if they restore my comments I cannot even log back in to edit/delete them again.

Although I'd argue that restoring content the user has deleted without their consent, may also be considered a privacy violation. Maybe I'd posted something by accident, that I realized later I didn't wanna share? All I'm saying is, it's a dangerous road for them to take, as it exposes them to legal actions IMO.

BTW my comments are fine, still showing up as deleted.

Which is unfortunately not what I originally meant to do, but the tool does a poor job at warning to uncheck the delete checkbox. So after spending 5 minutes coming up with an impactful/helpful edit message pointing to my Lemmy profile and inviting people to get in touch if they needed that content absolutely (since I have a backup), I eventually messed up and run the tool with chained edit + DELETE actions. Yeah, that hurt a lil bit.