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

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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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[–] ieatpillowtags@lemm.ee 55 points 2 years ago (13 children)

I think it’s enough to stop engaging with Reddit, there’s not much point in worrying about what you’ve already posted there imo.

[–] octobob@lemmy.ml 20 points 2 years ago (11 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 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 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 12 points 2 years 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 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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[–] RedditWanderer@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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.

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