After 13 years, I had quit reddit 1st June 2023. At the time I joined beehaw (lemmy.world didn’t exist) and used the redact utility to delete all my posts/comments (we could at the time delete instead of mass editing.
I lurk sometimes some niche communities or go on reddit from google search, I never comment or upvote. I sometimes click on my user to see there was no comments/saved/etc.
Yesterday, randomly, I clicked on my username and saw all my 2023 and less post, 13 years of comments, I was like WTF, after 2 years, reddit decided to take an old backup or something and undelete all my comments!!!
As now redact only do mass editing and pretty slowly, I used something else, https://github.com/Jelly-Pudding/ereddicator/tree/main, followed instructions, it deleted ~3600 comments in less than 2 hours.
I’ll monitor from time to time if reddit keep undeleting them, to feed their AI…
Doesn’t this just apply to Europeans in Europe? Reddit is in the US and all.
US companies must comply if they serve European customers. Reddit may make you try to prove you are European and deny it.
I believe under the CCPA which is a California law that is also strong and would also require them removing your data. It might apply to them even if you don’t reside in California since that is where they are based.