EDIT: Maybe a false alert after all, my thread is now visible to all. Still weird that it stayed “deleted” for hours though.


I believe Reddit is now automatically deleting threads about Lemmy (or containing links to Lemmy instances)? A thread I made on r/Save3rdPartyApps got deleted with no explanation within seconds of me creating it and I don’t believe it’s the sub’s mods who did that.

(However, I can see it while logged in. So it’s a kind of shadow-deletion)

Can anyone confirm whether referencing Lemmy and/or an instance gets your thread insta-removed?

  • CannaVet@lemmy.world
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    I don’t know about this but Reddit is restoring comments of folk who go through deleting their shit.

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      1 year ago

      Just checked now and you’re right. Used PowerDeleteSuite to overwrite and delete my comments and now some of them from about 6 years ago are back. Going to wipe it again now

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        1 year ago

        I think part of it is when you run a comment wiper it can only delete the comments from subs that are not private. I wiped my comments the other day, and a few hundred popped back up as the related subs they were in came back from private mode.

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          That very well might be the case. All of the comments I had left were from a single sub, though IDK if they went private prior to my data wipe or not. No matter, they’re gone now.

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          It probably is, and not surprising since it only backed up 12 of my posts and comments out of hundreds

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      1 year ago

      Holy shit really?! That is seriously awful. Also isn’t this against the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)?

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    1 year ago

    I had all my lemmy comments removed a few days ago before I deleted my account. I knew this from /r/ShadowBan.