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?

  • RedditWanderer@lemmy.world
    22·
    11 months ago

    You’re saying there is no point, and the comment below agrees with you, because the only point is that it removes threads and that’s getting old.

    No it’s not getting old, that’s the entire point of deleting posts. Reddit should not get post traffic through google for something I did, and I can take that away. Me alone won’t have a big impact, but if we all do it Reddit will have more struggles.

    In order of efficacy:

    • Don’t post to Reddit: this is what reddit needs to keep going. Reddit doesn’t produce anything.

    • If you have popular posts people come back to (like help communities) delete them, this still drives traffic and app downloads for reddit.

    • Commenting/upvoting/downvoting on posts drives engagement. If you have to visit reddit, don’t click on votes and don’t comment.

    A reminder that reddit is still struggling to IPO and sell off, in large part due to the.exodus.

    • cyanarchy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      12·
      11 months ago

      Dude I’m not interested in going scorched earth on one of the most useful repositories of practical information and discussion, and I’m disturbed that you’re so zealous to do so.

      • HiT3k@midwest.social
        9·
        11 months ago

        For fucking real. If I ever come across a niche question about some obscure router setting and the only answer on the internet was some comment in a ten year old Reddit post and the comment says “DELETED BY SUCH AND SUCH APP - fuck u/spez” I’m gonna cry.

        • solrize@lemmy.world
          3·
          11 months ago

          “This post has been moved to Lemmy at url xxyyzz, fuck spez” would keep the info around, if that makes you feel better.

          • Land_Strider@lemmy.world
            1·
            11 months ago

            That should be the only way, but I seriously doubt that Reddit admins would keep the links intact in that case. Out of their greed and malice they would probably mess with the Lemmy link, then put the blame narrative on the poster for deleting/making the information unavailable.

            It can be a bit annoying like how c/hackernews post only external links with topic titles, but that is the (temporary) cost of freedom and privacy.

      • retrieval4558@mander.xyz
        2·
        11 months ago

        Yeah as someone who has gotten into Linux and DIY computer builds in the last year, I’ve been pretty sad at some deletions. Ultimately the fault is on Reddit itself but still pretty sad.