• davel [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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    6 months ago

    Good luck with the deleting. It often just means UPDATE comments SET is_deleted = 1 WHERE ID = 666;.

    • chiisana@lemmy.chiisana.net
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      6 months ago

      There was similar things done on Reddit during the big exit. I doubt it achieved what people expected it to achieve. Even if they’re not visible externally, I’m sure they can easily access (thereby make deals to license) the data out of their backend / backup; just a matter of how hard they want to try (hint: it’s really not very hard).

      • duncesplayed@lemmy.one
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        6 months ago

        Yeah during the reddit exodus, people were recommending to overwrite your comment with garbage before deleting it. This (probably) forces them to restore your comment from backup. But realistically they were always going to harvest the comments stored in backup anyway, so I don’t think it caused them any more work.

        If anything, this probably just makes reddit’s/SO’s partnership more valuable because your comments are now exclusive to reddit’s/SO’s backend, and other companies can’t scrape it.

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          6 months ago

          It was to make the data inaccessible to general people, therefore removing the reason people visit reddit. Even if reddit could still get the data, regular people would be inconvenienced (in theory) and look somewhere else.

    • plz1@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      They are not deleting, they are editing. So the platform would have to undo those edits rather than just flipping the visibility flag.