Lol. Original title said UI. I meant AI. You all are cracking me up though.

Reddit has backups, so for AI training purposes I'm sure they can restore all the posts of everyone mass editing/deleting this month.

I might be a spiteful fucker, but I am going to wait for the API changes. Then use a VM based AutoGUI bot to randomly scramble stuff up, putting nice load on the site, all the while acting like a "real" person. Good luck restoring/countering that bitchboy spez!

Mwahahaha

did mine too. i took this text from someone else's edited comment cause i liked it so much, added a line or two

@Kill_joy I'm just waiting for my data export to come through (it's been over a week since I requested it), then I'll submit a GDPR deletion request – any other way of deleting only hides the data from the web, but it remains in their databases.

I went with explicitly mentioning my right to erasure under GDPR and how you can absolutely identify me via my account. Really interested if they undelete as I'll be complaining to the ICO.

Well done!

Is this worth doing if I'm someone who mainly commented on cat photos and skincareAddiction for the last 5 years?

This isn't likely to stop Reddit themselves from monetizing the data for AI training purposes. Deletion is typically "logical" in these types of systems, meaning that it's "marked as deleted" but not actually deleted.

What it does affect is the ability for others to see the posts, which might be companies accessing the API for AI training purposes. At this point, we don't know whether this is a meaningful path that Reddit wants to go down. If it is, they could allow the API to return deleted posts and comments (theoretically).

So the question is, will this back-up my posts to a file as well?

I heard allegations that reddit was restoring deleted content to try and maintain the value of the site.

So far I just know it as hearsay though.

I'm still new to Lemmy. Is there a link to this power delete suite? I don't see one in the post.

I might as well try to delete my content. I don't plan on going back to Reddit as anything other than anonymous.