I think this is not talked about enough. We also won't be able to see deleted posts and comments because of the API pricing.
I think this is not talked about enough. We also won't be able to see deleted posts and comments because of the API pricing.
Yeah it makes certain subs like AmITheDevil pretty much unusable because so much of what gets shared there ends up deleted
smh now I won't be able to read the good comments on r/worldnews
I wonder what percentage of users would be in favor of that specifically
I was sympathetic to this change if only because I regard it as better for privacy that removed and deleted comments stay that way, it's annoying that if you deleted something there was an ability to see it again. Most of the time it was used for drama and shit-stirring, although I will admit it's a shame to lose some important threads that were removed. Also they would never have backtracked on this part because I am pretty sure it's been a long-standing issue with GDPR in the EU and finally came to bite them.
They're still gonna frequently be in caches like Google's or Archive.org. Just much less predictable when those will cache, so sometimes they may have your comments and other times they saved the page too soon or late. It's best to assume that once on the internet, it'll be almost impossible to fully remove, as there's too many services that cache websites.
What's your stance on the inability to remove comments in fediverse instances like Lemmy or Kbin?
I don’t know that you could ever remove posts or comments from Reddit either. I think it’s safer to describe it as making a comment public or not. I’m assuming that Reddit itself keeps records of all deleted posts. It’s best to treat everything you post online as public and permanent. I honestly think reddits ability to edit comments was a problem. I’ve seen so many arguments where people go back and change previous posts so now the arguments don’t make sense or to make the person responding to them look like an asshole.
In general that would be annoying but not that big of a deal, but the only person I can think of that this is a serious problem is Spez, and maybe some of the power mods. I suspect this would make it harder to prove if he's editing comments again, and while people absolutely screenshoted everything I think his bakers dozen replies in the AMA got deleted.