this post was submitted on 24 Apr 2024
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Bye Reddit
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A memorial for the front page of the internet. If you have left reddit or is considering leaving then this community is for you.
There’s also a blog documenting the rise and fall of reddit as well as news and thoughts on the whole issue.
It serves as an archive for posts and topics in case reddit decides to delete anti-reddit posts within its platform.
https://byereddit.com <—- here it is in case you’re interested
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You did not understand the concept. You cannot "delete" your comments on Reddit. You can mark them as deleted but the comments still exist. If you replace your comments with out of context text like excerpts from War and Peace, then the data scrubbers will pick the data up as good. You are polluting the data set. Do it a few times with different text sources and the scrubbers won't know what part of your comment history is good.
Do this and it stops being about privacy and it starts being about actively damaging the data sets.
They already know that everyone editing old posts is doing it to screw with them.
As others pointed out they will ignore all edits. Especially edits made after 1 day.
Losing the rare grammatical fixes or additional info that was changed weeks later doesn't matter to them. Keeping the version last changed within 1 day of first edit gives them everything they need.
The only way to mess with reddit would require posting wrong information with a community of like minded redittors that would up vote the bad information.