Reddit breaks Law by restoring deleted comments

Lmao I was just reading a post on Reddit of people saying that Lemmy was bad regarding privacy because "comments aren't actually deleted".

Oh boy, the society...

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For those manually deleting posts one by one, consider replacing your post with random copy and paste text from copyrighted banned books instead.

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Or to a link to "what is Lemmy?"

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I think we should promote Odyssey instead of YouTube. YouTube can also fuck people over any time over like reddit and it is in a much better position to do so. So if a creator has an Odyssey channel as well, why not provide an Odyssey link instead?

https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/reddit-breaks-the-law-trying-to-quell:6?r=86bBjbwaQEYfPativhC7gFKoZaUNt1ah

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This is what I do innately.

I use RSS to track my "subscriptions". When one of those creators finally move over to ANY other platform other than youtube, I replace their youtube feed with that other platform. So all my subscriptions are in one place, but I'm not specifically tied to youtube.

Edit: I also don't need to login to my youtube/google account at all.

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- How do you get youtibe channels over rss? That would be super helpful as youtibes recommendations constantly miss the mark for me.
  
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I do think genuinely there's quite a bit going on here. They genuinely could be deleting comments, but there's a LOT that goes into it. Different caching servers not updating, reverting to old caches, subreddits being re-enabled and hidden comments being shown again, and lots of things. I do tend to think that Reddit is a shitty company with no respect for their average user, but this is a situation that from a technical standpoint there's a lot in that pipeline that can go wrong and revert back to old data for safety.

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There’s a comment pinned in the comments saying the content was being restored due to subreddits being changed from private to public. Still really shitty they don’t allow you to bulk delete though

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Still borderline illegal that they don't allow you to delete comments from private subredits...

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You say that as if it makes it okay. By definition, it means those comments were not deleted in the first place. When I want my monetizable data deleted, I want it deleted. Not "hidden". I'm a programmer. Changing a mode on a group does not have to "undelete" content. In fact, in any context involving business, explicit work to ensure the data is gone forever is often legally audited.

If they won't delete my data, and that ends up permitted, then I demand that any time my data is viewed or used, I expect compensation - just like musicians, writers, and media companies demand.

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Having deleted my account (after editing and deleting every post) only for this to happen, it really sucks, because now I have no way to actually get all of my old posts removed. I wasn't even deleting because of the protests, I was just purging an old account before they changed the API and I couldn't use power delete suite anymore.

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lawsuit time! big payouts

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Unfortunately it’ll likely be big payouts to lawyers, and fines. Users see pennies if anything.

Still, make them pay

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Is read in one of these threads about reddit reporting deleted comments that if you white your comments and then delete it, they'll restore the edited version when next they do that.

A good edit would be:

I'm leaving reddit for good, because of how the admins and owners are mistreating third party app developers, mods, and users. I've moved to the Fediverse, which is a much nicer place, made by users and for users. I advise any who read this to do the same.

Here are a few links to get started:

https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/01-getting-started.html

https://lemmy.world

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Wish someone would write a script that could do this for all comments.

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- There are quite a few scripts to do so.
  
  https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite is one of the better ones, best run it quick though, it uses the API, and so might die at the end of the month
  
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