Technology @lemmy.ml AlmightySnoo 🐢🇮🇱🇺🇦 @lemmy.world 1y ago

Reddit might be deleting threads about Lemmy now?

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?

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I don't know about this but Reddit is restoring comments of folk who go through deleting their shit.
- 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
  
  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.
  
  I read that this is a glitch of power delete, not reddit being nefarious.
- Holy shit really?! That is seriously awful. Also isn't this against the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)?
  
  And gdpr. Waiting for someone reputable to write an article about it.
I'm able to see it
- It's empty on your screenshot.
  
  Looks like I see it now
Have you checked with the mods?
- Used modmail and contacted three of them individually too, no answer so far. But I highly doubt it's them since the thread got removed within just a few seconds.
I had all my lemmy comments removed a few days ago before I deleted my account. I knew this from /r/ShadowBan.
Reddit is taking a page from the Elon Musk book of opression and tyranny.
I can see the thread.
- yes, looks like it got undeleted after 7~8 hours of being [removed]

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