The newly announced “Public Content Policy” will now join Reddit’s existing privacy policy and content policy to guide how Reddit’s data is being accessed and used by commercial entities and other partners.

  • Evotech@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    We don’t know how deletions work on the back end of Reddit. It might just be marked deleted but exist on the servers. And I assume that’s the case. Especially for things >24 hours

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      6 months ago

      Still, I just edited my comment from like 2 years ago, under my banned account, under a deleted post…

      I got 7 years worth of Reddit comments I can edit! I could make my own custom fragmented Base64 filesystem with my old comments LOL!

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          6 months ago

          I just tried editing another old comment to drop in the entire Bee Movie script.

          Reddit gave me an error that said it must be under 10,000 characters. Welp, now we know the limits!

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            6 months ago

            We’re pushing the system on what is possible

            I believe it was in gurren lagan where they said “reject common sense to make the impossible possible”

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              6 months ago

              Anything is possible, especially with teamwork…

              Whether I fully master this sort of process first or not is beside the point. It really takes teamwork.

              I’m just proving the concept to start with…

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          6 months ago

          It’s still just a fresh idea that’s only been bouncing around in my head for the past few days.

          Had to get confirmation others can see it first before considering how to proceed.

          I’m not exactly in any rush, but it’s a proof of concept…

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        6 months ago

        Back when i left reddit after the 3pa fiasco I used a browser side script to sift through all my comments and posts, edit them to a fuck spez message, and then delete. Made the whole process very convenient.

        It is called power delete suite

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      6 months ago

      They store the current edit and one previous version back, and deletion does not count as an edit as it only hides the latest version from showing on the front end and through the api.

      This was found out by people trying to edit and delete comments in mass during the api exodus.

      So you’d want to edit the comment to garbage twice before deleting it, and hope they aren’t willing to restore shit from deeper backups they surely have for system safety (speaking as a systems engineer) that they haven’t pulled from yet.

      • Amerikan Pharaoh@lemmygrad.ml
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        6 months ago

        I did this about three or four times with Power Delete Suite before the APIs were snuffed out; and my stuff’s still gone. I check back about every three months.