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Re:Film studios lose bid to unmask Reddit users who wrote co... by bloopernova on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @12:29PM (#35790088)
reveddit and unddit (and many more) archive copies of comments very frequently. To not have your comment archived/copied, you'd need to delete it within just a couple of minutes of submitting it. Reddit itself has no real way to prevent this from happening.

I don't know if there is a way to have a forum-like reddit clone that would allow comments to be truly deleted and forgotten. Heck, I'd like it if there was infrastructure available for sites to verify GnuPG-signed comments.

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Re:Film studios lose bid to unmask Reddit users who wrote co... by sli on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @12:38PM (#35790258)
Uneddit and Reveddit, at least, do not archive comments deleted by the user that posted them. They archive comments deleted by moderators and admins.
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Re:Film studios lose bid to unmask Reddit users who wrote co... by bloopernova on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @02:10PM (#35791815)
Ah, I didn't know that. Thank you for the new information!
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Re:Film studios lose bid to unmask Reddit users who wrote co... by 0l on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @02:26PM (#35792044)
This is not true: these sites rely on Pushshift, which archives ALL comments (at the time of their creation), and Pushshifts data is then compared with Reddits data, allowing it to work out which comments have been deleted.
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Re:Film studios lose bid to unmask Reddit users who wrote co... by someNameIG on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @03:19PM (#35792746)
You can request your account not to be (publicly) archived on Pushshift.
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Re:Film studios lose bid to unmask Reddit users who wrote co... by hot_gril on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @12:55PM (#35790568)
At least deleting from the main site reduces the chance of someone stumbling upon something "bad" that causes them to target you.
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Re:Film studios lose bid to unmask Reddit users who wrote co... by brokenmachine on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @08:17PM (#35796087)
Reveddit used to work pretty well, but for about the last couple of months every time I've tried to use it, it doesn't seem to show any deleted comments.

I think reddit has nerfed pushshift.

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