I think it’s enough to stop engaging with Reddit, there’s not much point in worrying about what you’ve already posted there imo.

This post is pure gold. If your other posts are as heavy as this one Reddit is sitting on a small fortune.

Did you delete them outright or modify the text and then delete it? That is the tinfoil hat way! If you lived in Europe you could request your data to be deleted. You can also request your data and they are supposed to comply at some point. If you did that you could see what they have.

The rabbit hole will drive you a little bonkers so maybe don’t overthink it for now and take a look at https://www.reveddit.com/ and archive.org to see if your username pops up.

I’m not sure about what the backup schedule and stuff has to do with it, but I don’t think it helps much:

• deleted posts don’t come up in Google searches after a while

• deleted comments might be counted in the comment count on a post someone navigates to (not sure), so at most the post will initially appear to have more content which might get someone to click

Marginal change at best, it’s probably not worth your time thinking about it

“In several SSDs”

Backups are usually done to slower HDDs (online backups) and then to tape archives (offline).

They’ve got it forever.

Hey, can you share a tutorial on how to do this, and some of your review

I always forget to do that

Would have been better to run the script that edits posts, just to fuck with the data.

China and Facebook would probably buy it for their own profile databases on every person on the planet.

Chances of that though are unlikely. Both are more worried about short term things. For China spotting dissent and trends on the fly. For Facebook selling ads more accurately.

Can they? Yes. Will they? No. Would it be worth the backlash? Also no.

You gave them an irrevocable license to basically use your content in any way they see fit. Them not showing posts you deleted is just them being nice, not being obligated to do so. They could simply ignore your request or restore posts later.

You should have thought about that when you gave them that license to your content.

PowerDeleteSuite was a good tool for overwriting your comments and deleting them. Now you need a rate-limited fork of it. It still works, but I don’t have the link handy.

Edit all of your comments and posts to some useless text, then delete them.

They monetize your posts by serving ads next to them. If no one can see the content, it’s not monetized. The other thing is using them to train language models and such. That’s a little more abstract, and hard to account for.

Also, not sure if this is still a good way to do things, but there are tools to overwrite all your comments with useless text before deleting it. The thinking is that reddit and any third party websites aren’t going to bother storing multiple versions of a deleted comment.

In short, No. If they do so, sue them.

But the reality is much more complex than that. IANAL, but I do believe that they should likely avoid trying to monetize your data.

That doesn’t stop people who buy reddit from attempting it, but as I said before…if they do so egregiously, sue them.

In an ideal world your data should not be monetized. They might have backups but your data should eventually get phased out of those backups over time. It’s impractical for them to keep data forever, and old data is much less valuable.

Companies exist to make money.

Therfor, it isn’t a great problem, tbh.

The gouverment my spyy on us just to have as much information as possible to get profiles but companies need you as possible customer. If you never use the side againt, they would not find any use of the data and to store it makes costs. So, they probable delete them after a certain time.

Reddit is not going to look up your post amongst billions of others. Privacy nutjobs are so paranoid I swear.