Me, who completely nuked twelve years worth of Reddit posts and comments which were often one of, if not the only relevant search result to an extremely niche problem.

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Oof yeah. Finding a reddit thread with your exact query as the title, getting excited to see a comment, aaaaand... It's "This comment was deleted by EliteUltraEraser Premium TM. I value my privacy,...."

(I do get it though. And who knows, maybe this will actually help in the long run ~~and not just lead to increased usage of Discord communities so ask the same thing over and over and over again because they aren't fucking publicly searchable god I hate what Discord has done to the searchability of issues in the tech space~~?)

[–] HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

~~and the experts you need to talk to aren't necessarily available at the time you need them to re-answer a question for you~~

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Oops, might have gone a little off topic there.

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Ah, I think my edible just hit, that explains it

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

OK im gonna stop commenting now.

[–] roguetrick@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

ITT: a case study of mild cannabinoid psychosis

[–] TotallynotJessica@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Aka: my autistic ass sober

[–] scops@reddthat.com 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Depending on how you nuked it, reddit might have just restored the comment behind your back. My reddit account shows 0 posts/comments, but a month ago I got a reply to a comment in a post I made five years ago providing instructions on how to get a game working in Linux.

[–] SpaceCadet@feddit.nl 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Nah, reddit restoring comments is a myth. You just didn't delete all your comments, even though probably you thought you did.

See, Reddit, being the duplicitous bitch that it is, doesn't really show you all your comments when you go to your profile. It's limited to your last 1000 (?) comments or so, any comment that goes beyond that horizon is gone from your view forever, but it still exists in the thread.

The way to solve that is to first do a GDPR request. After a few weeks you will receive a zip file containing a file with all your comments and a link to it. You can then use an overwrite and delete tool and point it to this information. It will likely run for several hours or even days, depending on how many comments you made, because reddit throttles edit and delete requests, but it will effectively delete everything.