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Not really bothered what happens over there now. I’m no longer invested in their community. Yeah I’ll be poking my head back in over there occasionally I think, but lemmy is scratching my itch for scrolling and doing it in a way that seems less harmful to my spare time and mental health.
My reddit protest consisted of:
I’ve already opened a google link to something on reddit only to find it was deleted by the user. So I think the withdrawal of content is going to have a lasting impact.
If you used Power Delete Suite, please double check your comments/posts are really gone. There have been multiple reports that Reddit brings back deleted posts/comments.
Quite a few of mine came back suddenly when I checked them. I've since overwritten and deleted everything again.
It's important to overwrite them, otherwise they are just flagged as deleted but easy for admins to undelete.
Yeah you're right. Power Delete Suite can do that, but I don't think it does it by default. But I think I've seen reports that even when editing, posts are brought back to live.
Most likely it's just an issue with the software or API. Perhaps it hits a rate limit and ignores some requests.
I doubt admins are restoring individual posts that they like. It doesn't seem to make sense.
I'm not too sure. They are forcing subreddits to re-open, and in the past they have edited comments in favor of reddit.
Reddit content is very valuable, when I Google for opinions, I always add "reddit" to the query.
Many people who reported the issue say that their profiles initially showed up as empty, but were restored a couple of hours later.
It would be interesting to have a proper test of this. There are numerous reasons this could happen. The first thing I'd look at is if this has happened in the past or if it's a new issue. People have been clearing their accounts for years, so if people have had this issue before it's a sign of an issue with the process. If not, reddit may be doing something odd.