302
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 10 May 2024
302 points (98.1% liked)
Technology
1322 readers
377 users here now
Which posts fit here?
Anything that is at least tangentially connected to the technology, social media platforms, informational technologies and tech policy.
Rules
1. English only
Title and associated content has to be in English.
2. Use original link
Post URL should be the original link to the article (even if paywalled) and archived copies left in the body. It allows avoiding duplicate posts when cross-posting.
3. Respectful communication
All communication has to be respectful of differing opinions, viewpoints, and experiences.
4. Inclusivity
Everyone is welcome here regardless of age, body size, visible or invisible disability, ethnicity, sex characteristics, gender identity and expression, education, socio-economic status, nationality, personal appearance, race, caste, color, religion, or sexual identity and orientation.
5. Ad hominem attacks
Any kind of personal attacks are expressly forbidden. If you can't argue your position without attacking a person's character, you already lost the argument.
6. Off-topic tangents
Stay on topic. Keep it relevant.
7. Instance rules may apply
If something is not covered by community rules, but are against lemmy.zip instance rules, they will be enforced.
Companion communities
!globalnews@lemmy.zip
!interestingshare@lemmy.zip
Icon attribution | Banner attribution
founded 11 months ago
MODERATORS
We don't know how deletions work on the back end of Reddit. It might just be marked deleted but exist on the servers. And I assume that's the case. Especially for things >24 hours
Still, I just edited my comment from like 2 years ago, under my banned account, under a deleted post...
I got 7 years worth of Reddit comments I can edit! I could make my own custom fragmented Base64 filesystem with my old comments LOL!
Good luck :p
I just tried editing another old comment to drop in the entire Bee Movie script.
Reddit gave me an error that said it must be under 10,000 characters. Welp, now we know the limits!
We’re pushing the system on what is possible
I believe it was in gurren lagan where they said “reject common sense to make the impossible possible”
I dunno if Id take gurren lagann as gospel, they were a big fan of touching the untouchable
That was my goal in quoting it
Anything is possible, especially with teamwork..
Whether I fully master this sort of process first or not is beside the point. It really takes teamwork.
I'm just proving the concept to start with...
Make sure you use those 10000 characters as wisely as possible to thwart good compression.
Ah, I like the way you think!
It's still just a fresh idea that's only been bouncing around in my head for the past few days.
Had to get confirmation others can see it first before considering how to proceed.
I'm not exactly in any rush, but it's a proof of concept...
Back when i left reddit after the 3pa fiasco I used a browser side script to sift through all my comments and posts, edit them to a fuck spez message, and then delete. Made the whole process very convenient.
It is called power delete suite
They store the current edit and one previous version back, and deletion does not count as an edit as it only hides the latest version from showing on the front end and through the api.
This was found out by people trying to edit and delete comments in mass during the api exodus.
So you'd want to edit the comment to garbage twice before deleting it, and hope they aren't willing to restore shit from deeper backups they surely have for system safety (speaking as a systems engineer) that they haven't pulled from yet.
Ah, this is useful knowledge, thank you fellow Lemming!
I did this about three or four times with Power Delete Suite before the APIs were snuffed out; and my stuff's still gone. I check back about every three months.
And actually, it is known how Reddit flags deleted stuff. They flag it with 999.
We can thank Camas for that...
https://search.pullpush.io/