In other news, spez’s compensation from reddit last year was $193 million, and it’s COO got a cool $93 million.
C’mon, spez, tell us again how horrible it’s been that reddit’s never made a profit.
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Our data, you mean?
well, not mine. i used a script to replace all of my comments with gibberish before i deleted them and then my account. if they went back and restored my comments, then all they’ll get is comments full of gibberish, especially since i overwrote them 3 times before deleting them, just in case they tried to roll back to the previous version.
have fun with that!
I did the same, but we’re both fools if we think reddit didn’t keep every character we typed (yet alone submitted) in a private, proprietary database.
We weren’t paid for our data. We were given access to a website free of charge. The consent we gave was supposed to be for the operation of the website, not for training AI.
They should fucking pay us.
I like your style, but honestly I wouldn’t be surprised if they keep every single version.
Here’s the thing: Nothing in Reddit’s history indicates that they are that competent.
I put my account’s comment through a mass-delete app around the time of the big protest, and a couple weeks later I found every single one was restored.
People can be incompetent for years and then suddenly start figuring things out.
i bet they do now, but i’ve checked back now and then, and all of my comments and posts are most assuredly gone.
edit: i’ve gone back to check some old haunts, place i know i’ve commented, and i did some seaching with google using my old usernames, as google uses its cache to match to the posts\comments, even though they’re not there any more.
i see old posts that are graveyards of deleted comments, some with simply deleted accounts, and many others where both the account and comment are deleted. i don’t see any gibberish comments. the ones i know are mine (because replies quote the comment above, which i recognize as mine), are all just deleted in their entirety, so it seems they didn’t do comment versioning, at least not past the first edit. i see no posts under any former username of mine.
the efforts to scrub my content from reddit last May appears to have worked. sadly, since the API lockdown, those tools no longer work.
Just because it shows [deleted] doesn’t mean the data were deleted. That is most likely just a flag for the comment.
They most likely keep every save since they decided to do the sell the data thing. Why would google pay them for what google could easily scrape other than having the full history?
As I mentioned, I overwrote the comments several times before deleting them. I seriously doubt that they saved multiple versions of the comments. I know that, towards the end of May, they made some backend changes to try to circumvent users attempt to delete their accounts, but I did all of this to my account a couple of weeks before that.
That literally means nothing at all on their server backup from the year before. You could delete and rewrite your comments a thousand times and it would do you the same amount as good as one time, and barely any better than doing it no times at all. Your entire 15 year comment history would take up probably 10MB of space at best. They’ll have several back ups taken over the last decade. They aren’t just going to be selling off the live servers info.
No, I think the other commenter is right. They definitely store every version of every comment on their backend. Just because it’s not displayed publicly doesn’t mean they don’t have the data.
if you request your data from them under CCPA, and it shows the edited comments as gibberish, you’re good. I did the same thing but I left the comments to simmer for a long time like months.
I imagine that they would. Text is trivially easy to store, and storing multiple versions would let them catch users who might edit away rule breaking they posted to avoid bans, but it’s probably one of those internal tools.
From a data handling perspective, it’d be more efficient to handle edits by having a common
idfield, and an additional version/edit counter that increments --adding the edit like its a normal post-- , than it would be to edit data the usual way, since you don’t have to go back over the whole database to find the comment, or worry about it falling out of sync if one copy of the database has the edit, and the other has the original.You’d just need to fetch the comment by id, and the database entry with the highest version count to display it, which would be fairly easy to do.
you can request your reddit data, and they provide every comment along with edits as far as I remember, it was uncomfortable but i’d never posted anything regrettable at least
imagine getting your hands on u/spez’s reddit data
Reddit used to be open source and the source is still on github as a read only archive.
AFAIK back then edit history was only kept briefly. Enough to roll back an accidental edit (if you have admin privileges anyway) but not far enough back to view old versions of posts.
Of course, they would have backups, and maybe the code has changed, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it hasn’t changed and those backups are impractical (slow/expensive) to access.
Keeping old revisions is a common practice but it’s also expensive and in reddit’s case totally unnecessary.
Yeah…all that comment data isn’t really that large. They’ll have backups captured for likely several years back. All you can view is the info on the current live servers. You might have kept them from getting like 3 months worth of your comments at best.
LOL. I did the same. And I confirmed many months later that the comments were not restored.
Now I hear that Google wants to train their AI on reddit content. Haha. Good luck with that, Lorem Ipsum! 😁
If you actually replaced with “Lorem ipsum” texts, it would probably be easy to filter the garbage from the dataset.
Also, they probably have copies of the comments before the edits that are just not presented in the frontend.
I didn’t. At first, it was basically a long ass message about deleting my comment out of protest. Then a few subreddit mods banned me, so I changed them to “almost makes sense” word salad 😂
I ran the script, changing the text each time, several times for good measure.
They still haven’t reverted it, and it’s been more than just a few months now.
Me too. Feelin’ mighty fine about that decision now. Long Live Lemmy
Our data
Correct, our data.
- Spez
Probably doesn’t matter, but this is why I deleted my account instead of just locking it up.
With google being the partner i bet the deal wont mention they cant use older backups of reddit that they most certainly have.
This is why we need better data laws in the US. If I want everything I’ve ever said on your site to disappear both instantly and forever, I should have that option.
I’m sure you’re right about that. All parties involved are scumbags, after all.
This is helpful of them, once the EU court fines them, we can quickly calculate how much that will be.
I hope my fuck Spez comments are useful.
Now AIs will fuck Spez for all eternity.
Millennia from now Fuckspez! will be the standard greeting between all sentient species in the galactic federation. It will be even used in machine code as a handshake for establishing initial contact between two subspace relays.
Blow me
“Its”
“licensing”
“made”
“lots”
“/ᐠ｡ꞈ｡ᐟ\”
Monty Python’s flying circus!
“It’s”
Where’s my cut?
what, you didn’t get the email offering the special stock price?
Yeah I got it, but unfortunately I don’t want to put money into Reddit. I heard some early adaptors got cash bonus instead, I’m very jealous
So just enough to cover what it payed the CEO last year? ($192 million)
Lmao the ratfuck CEO is making his money alright. What a little weaseling coward. He spend so long jealous of his co-founders who got paid and left early, that he probably sees this as his gold parachute.
It’s data?! You mean our data
I wonder if they will ever consider paying the users for the content they provide that constitutes “its” data. 🤔
They said they’ll be allowing users to cash out Karma.
The users get a service that costs hundreds of millions to maintain for free.
And no one is forcing them to post valuable content without compensation.Well there’s apparently more than 400 million active users every month, so they could charge users a few cent per month and pay for the infrastructure entirely. But they choose to be massive privacy invading assholes.
If they charged users any amount of money there wouldn’t even be 400000 of them anymore.
Yes there’d be less, but the amount is purely speculative and you don’t know anymore than I do.
Even if they have to go with the ad-supported model to maintain a large active userbase, that can easily be done without all the tracking. But again, they chose the shittiest option…there’s really a pattern of them just being massive assholes. No matter what options they have, they’ll apparently go for the shittiest one that screws over the users the most.
This was my attitude until reddit took away my app. Now the site is the poster child for enshitification
Pay? They are trying to “stonk” Reddit users by asking them to buy stock for the IPO which screams “We want your data and your money!”.
Yeah. They are giving the users the “privilege” to buy shares at the open market rate. Not even at discounted rates. Again US only. What about the others? They just give their data I suppose.
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And it also asks reddit users to invest in reddit
loool
Reddit says it’s made $203M so far licensing
itsour dataFixed that for them.
There’s your “tragedy of the commons” fallacy on a stick, folks - the proles where managing reddit so well that huffman had to break it in order to make it more vulnerable to the parasites.
A good reminder to go back and edit all your comments to [removed] if you didn’t do so when you first left.
I did, and then also deleted my accounts. I can’t believe how much bot content is on there now.
Spez will be happy to know his payout is covered, company is still going to be broke though.
… and thats why Wikipedia is non-profit.
Seeing human (even shitpost) achievements get monetized (in the most sucky manner) one by one is sad af.
