Deleting a post is simply marking a piece of text so nobody sees it, but I think the text is still stored in their servers.

Furthermore, a large company like reddit, must backup regularly, meaning there must be several copies of my posts in several SSDs. If the backup once a day… some of my posts are 5 years old.

Companies exist to make money. I suspect they just marked my posts not to be readable by anyone, except staff and they can still monetize them.

Am I wearing a tinfoil hat way too often?

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    “the internet is turning into a hellscape so I’m going to make it worse”

    Cool? I guess?

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      I’ve seen that attitude a lot lately. It’s all some kind of accelerationism, sometimes towards an imagined utopia, sometimes just for the hell of it.

      Ironically, in this case, it’s not even like the corporate entities don’t have a backup copy of the data. I would be shocked if Reddit decided to honor its users requests to delete it.

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      Reddit is turning into a corporate hellscape so I’m going to help make it worse.

      FTFY. The community didn’t start this and Reddit shouldn’t succeed just because we want good memes. There are other ways.