It’s probably nothing sinister, though.
  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2·
    6 months ago

    Yes, that’s certainly possible, but it’s also out of my control. I have basically three options:

    1. Delete account - we know this doesn’t delete comments
    2. Delete comment - “seems” to delete comments, but we’ve seen comments get restored - so probably using a “deleted” flag
    3. Edit comment with nonsense and when delete - should poison comment if they’re just using the deleted flag

    That’s it. There’s no guarantee it works, but it has a much higher chance of working than the other two.

    And there’s a good chance they delete old backups. Hosting every edit is expensive, so there’s a decent chance they clean up old data after some months.

    • fishpen0@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      6 months ago

      In 2019 the total size of the text stored by Reddit was only 50TB. A Petabyte of data in cold storage is only 12k a year so even if they 500x in size since 2019 (very unlikely) it’s a drop in their ARR. given they sell the data for advertising and for AI, they are not deleting it. Reddit also self hosts a lot of their infra (they used to present their architecture at kubecon) so the storage costs would be even lower