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I deleted all my post from my reddit account, can they still monetize them? (linux.community)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by vestmoria@linux.community to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Deleting a post is simply marking a piece of text so nobody sees it, but I think the text is still stored in their servers.

Furthermore, a large company like reddit, must backup regularly, meaning there must be several copies of my posts in several SSDs. If the backup once a day… some of my posts are 5 years old.

Companies exist to make money. I suspect they just marked my posts not to be readable by anyone, except staff and they can still monetize them.

Am I wearing a tinfoil hat way too often?

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[–] octobob@lemmy.ml 19 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Yeah, looking up how to do something on an 8 year old post and finding deleted comments is getting really old. It's even worse now that Google's search engine has gone down in a bullshit flaming AI crapshoot and adding reddit to your search is the only way to find a human answer anymore.

[–] RedditWanderer@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Personally it brings me joy to see that you're falling on empty posts from top google searches, and hope you find many more in the future. You're just saying that you prefer to give money to Reddit if it's convenient for you.

That's the entire point of leaving reddit with our 10+ years of contribution; leaving reddit wasn't convenient for me, I'm not gonna help it be convenient for you. Get rekt spez.

[–] octobob@lemmy.ml 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

"the internet is turning into a hellscape so I'm going to make it worse"

Cool? I guess?

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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[–] RedditWanderer@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Reddit is turning into a corporate hellscape so I'm going to help make it worse.

FTFY. The community didn't start this and Reddit shouldn't succeed just because we want good memes. There are other ways.

[–] Melody@lemmy.one 6 points 10 months ago

SearXNG is free. Don't waste your time with Kagi.

[–] averyminya@beehaw.org 2 points 10 months ago

Users deleted comments was the only power we really had. How is reddit worth anything when all the people who shared information now lead to deleted comments?

I deleted a lot of my guides because of reddit. I still have them, but they're no longer online due. Reddit is even kind enough to say that my account which I deleted no longer exists, maybe because it was banned. So that's nice, all of us who deleted it in protest have been labeled as banned users.

I've had to use search "reddit" a couple times for various niche things but I stopped after multiple "answers" were just directing to deleted comments.

[–] FutileRecipe@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

now that Google's search engine has gone down in a bullshit flaming AI crapshoot

Tried Kagi yet?

[–] ioslife@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 10 months ago

Except most of Reddit of bots now too lol