cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/251752
It is important to note that although this may be a result of Reddit’s UI not displaying the content users posted to now-private subreddits, it remains a problem. Additionally, I agree with the author’s comments in the video description, as it appears strategically unrealistic for Reddit to ask that users manually delete the content themselves.
This is particularly true when considering that many automated methods to accomplish this task will be hindered by Reddit’s upcoming API pricing changes. Furthermore, Reddit has demonstrated a recurring pattern of rolling back databases using historical backups, thereby disregarding user deletion requests that were submitted prior to the database rollback.
See similar discussion of this video on Hacker News:
I overwrote then deleted all of my comments a few weeks ago—they were all back in their original form last week. I’ve since run the process again and already old comments are starting to reappear
The best part about this is that the more they do this, the more it costs them. Every action, especially disk transactions, cost them money. Just log in every day, run your deletion utility, and cost them a couple bucks more for being pricks about it.
That’s peanuts for them.
If you want to hurt them, make the platform unusable. Post real looking, but garbage comments in a semi automated way (random comments every few seconds, while you’re scrolling through. Vote randomly, downvote everything on /new…
Exactly this. Post blank photos, etc. Doing things like posting pictures of John Oliver just changes the conversation but still generates the traffic.
Be boring. Up vote garbage, and force them to pay mods like other platforms do.
I’m actually surprised digg didn’t try to get back into it again
All the little cracks that an angry and motivated audience can discover. It’s like pissing off a sibling…
I don’t know about deletions, but I requested my data for takeout more than two weeks ago and I still haven’t received it.
Same
Same. I’m in California so I did a CCPA request, according to what I read they have 45 days to comply, which can be extended to 90 with notice. I definitely plan on filing a complaint if they don’t comply.
Found the full transcription for the video from OP author:
Note to self: use
youtube.cominstead ofyoutu.be
for better cross post detection and lemmy integrationDo you know how well youtube-nocookie federates? Its an official Youtube service if you didn’t know.
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/1B0GGsDdyHI
Your video, but on nocookie.
That looks neet. Although I suspect this would succumb to the same cross post discoverability issues where URLs pointing to the same video would not match string for string. A better approach might be to facilitate inline embedding of HTML video players into Lemmy using browser extensions, where user scripts could be used to preview youtube links or re-write them to nocookie, allowing the Lemmy web UI to still avoid the use of cross-origin scripts by default.
Does changing your comments to or replacing them with garbled text work if reddit wont delete?
(i realize this shouldnt be necessary but more as a last resort)
Seems like it worked for me. Last I checked my deleted account’s comments are still up and display replaced text.
I overwrote my comments with a message that clearly states why I overwrote my comments and deleted my account.
This is great. If we coul do it somehow automatically, it would greatly damage the platform.
There is a way, the Power Delete Suite script can overwrite all your comments with any message you give it, and then follow it up with mass deletion if you wish, only catch is that the original doesn’t account for reddits current rate limiting and so misses stuff , but this fork of it seemed to do the trick for me
There are programs for that! Even an app AFAIK, but sadly I don’t remember the good ones right now. Maybe someone could pitch in and suggest?
Keep inviting people to Fediverse as a positive reaction to this.
Reddit is on a streak of bad decisions!
as much as I’m sick of reddit, posts and comments are not PII
*Sights. Every time we discuss this. Every fucking time. * Under the GDPR are they are. See §4 part 1.
Ok? I haven’t discussed this before.
Now you did.
What about me? I want to discuss!
It can be, depending on whether PII was involved. Just being publicly published doesn’t make it not be PII. It can be or not be. GDPR counts PII widely, since it also includes stuff that can be combined with other information to make for identifying the person.
Frankly this is one of those cases, where we need a court ruling to set precedent on what is counted in and what is counted out.
