I just logged in and checked my reddit account, and all my deleted posts have come back.
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This might be a silly question, because you know, big companies tend to ignore laws, but this cannot be GDPR (or maybe more importantly for this the California equivalent due to jurisdiction) compliant right?
They’re really scraping the barrel now.
But the main thing we can do is move quality content here.
What script are you using to mass edit? Even if they revert it, I would like to try.
I used PowerDeleteSuite to edit and delete. You can configure it to just edit if you want.
How are they even distinguishing between protest deletions and content that was genuinely deleted for a different reason?
Likely an algorithm that detects a large number of of quick deletions.
Rather than delete posts, I propose all rexxitors instead edit all of their posts and comments to say that they are leaving reddit for good to go to the fediverse instead. Such edits should provide links to major Fediverse sites and getting started guides, with advice for other redditors to abandon that place and join us here.
So I overwrite my posts and deleted with power delete suite, then deleted my account, and I’ve gone back and looked for my most recent posts and comments and they are still indeed gone.
I’m wondering if some people ran it while subs are already private and it simply wasn’t able to remove those posts and they didn’t show up until the subs became active again?
Not sure, but it’s not everyone that’s affected apparently.
WTF!!! Thx for raising awareness. This is crossing a line.
I guess next step would be not to delete posts but to edit them.Another user said they restore edited content too. They blanket restore anyone’s content which looks like it’s deleted by a script.
I can’t go on and manually delete twelve years of comments, I don’t think anyone can.
This will only be resolved if enough people take them to court and reddit is forced to add a complete data deletion option for all users.
thankful i used a script to mass-edit my profile, which seems to still be in effect (first and only time i visit a reddit URL post-spezdown, just directly typed my profile link so i don’t give the front page any “views” or “engagement” or whatever the corpo hogs are calling it now)
“Nice”. I deleted my account after that… hopefully my articles stay deleted
Holy shit! They restored my comments that I deleted the other day. What a crock of shit. Fuck u/spez.
This is wild. What the hell
This is why I edited all my comments to say that a certain CEO is a greedy little pig boy instead of straight on deleting them.
Supposedly they’re also undoing mass edits
Fucking pigboy doing pigboy things
Copying my comment from another thread below. I have since realised that Reddit does have to be GDPR compliant so it must be applicable, but does it apply to all content?
Would this actually be a GDPR breach? I was thinking about the right to erasure/to be forgotten earlier in relation to a post I saw about how your posts aren’t deleted on other federated instances, if you delete them on your home server. But I figured it wasn’t applicable because it’s not personal data and I’m thinking the same about this Reddit issue. Can anyone set me straight?
Yes, definition of personal data from GDPR:
‘personal data’ means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person;
Ah, thank you. I didn’t realise the definition covered so much but it makes sense especially with how the data could be used in conjunction with other identifying data. I should obviously brush up on my understanding of GDPR!
This is actually good. Mass-deleting posts and comments hurts users more than Reddit itself in the long term.
No, it hurts reddit more.
When you strike, the goal is to inconvenience or otherwise impact the users of the service. That’s how you hurt the service provider.
When the bus drivers strike, who does it hurt more? The public transit office? Or riders?
When grocery store employees strike, that has direct impact on shoppers.
When the writers guild strikes, the most affected are filmnand television viewers.
The whole goal is to affect change by altering the behaviour of users. Otherwise, you just get scabs.
if we want to be more mischievous… https://lemmy.ml/post/1320610
