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?

  • Melody Fwygon@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    It’s not wrong to be concerned. Unfortunately it’s all too common for privacy newcomers to decide their threat model is bigger than it really is.