• DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.com
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    9 months ago

    And that’s why I deleted all my posts and comments before deleting my account. Sure, they could probably go back and restore it if they wanted but, so far, they haven’t.

    Glad I landed here on Lemmy.

    • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl
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      9 months ago

      On Lemmy all you need to do is follow every community you can find and you’ll get a stream of posts, comments, voting behaviour, edits, and even admin behaviour, all raw and unprocessed with all the metadata you could hope for without paying a penny.

      I’m not saying every Lemmy server is being used to train AI models, but I’m sure the big ones are.

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        9 months ago

        Presumably most of the current AI models have already had access to reddit data in the past, so I am a bit confused about why they would pay 60 million for it now.

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      I deleted all my comments last year. Recently I got a notification for a response in one of such comments. When I clicked the notification link, my comment and the response were visible. The comment doesn’t show up in my profile.

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        Reddit was aggressively rate limiting tools used to delete and edit content in a funny way when the API pricing was announced. The API wouldn’t return an error, the rate limiting was silent, and the tools would report successful deletion or edits even when the edit or deletion wasn’t made.

        I had to modify an existing script to handle the 5-second rate limit and, lieu of deleting, I just rewrote each comment with a farewell.

        Even then I did 3 passes (minor additional edits) in cases Reddit was saving previous edits.

        My content has stayed edited.

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          Do you still have the Python script available?

          I was fine with keeping my comments up before for the future searchers, but I’m not fine with that shithole making profit off of it.

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        I’ve had the same experience. Most scripts just erase the comments available directly through your reddit profile, which is limited to the most recent ~2000 posts that you’ve made. To fully erase anything and everything, you need to request all your data from reddit, download the .zip and feed it into an application like shreddit.

      • DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.com
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        Interesting. I’ve specifically searched for some fairly unique content (Python scripts, etc) I posted in my time over there, and it hasn’t shown up at all.

        So you left your Reddit account intact?

        Edit: Fucking. Cunts. I just searched (had been a few months) and at least some of my data is back. I reckon they’ve done it ahead of the planned AI move and IPO.

    • bevan@lemmy.nz
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      9 months ago

      Yep used ‘power delete suite’ to delete everything before I left.

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        I suspect Reddit holds a perfect copy of every edit, including the first, you’ve ever done. For legal reasons if nothing else. Now also to prevent against perfectly good AI training content to be deleted.

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      9 months ago

      Yeah! Here, no one gets paid when someone else wants to profit off of all the free user generated content. Wait, what was our goal again?