It's not GDPR. Reddit is based in California, so they have to abide by the California Consumer Privacy Act. Which states, among other things, "The right to delete personal information collected from them (with some exceptions)", and "The right to limit the use and disclosure of sensitive personal information collected about them."As far as I understand, data protection laws do not require the vendor (in this case Reddit) to delete all your data. They are required to delete identifiable information, disassociating your posts/comments from your username seems to be enough to satisfy the GDPR.
I did make sure that my content has not been restored. After using PowerDeleteSuite to edit and delete all my posts, I was still able to find comments of mine on reddit using Google search, despite my Reddit Profile showing "this user doesn't have any posts."
Apparently, that is an issue with older accounts with over 1000 comments, you can only acccesss the latest 1000 posts/comments using your profile.
I then sent a GDPR request to get all my data (all my comments, and the links to them), then used a tool called" shreddit" to edit all the posts in the GDPR request csv file.
I did re-check a handful of posts a few days later, and they all remain edited.
I have sent another GDPR request 30 days later, and I will get another csv list of all my comments and I will be able to see if all of them remain edited. Once that is verified, I will delete my Reddit account.
This does not only apply to personal info associated with your account, but anything you might have posted that could be traced back to you. Maybe you posted pictures of places nearby where you live, maybe you posted your name at one point, could be a lot of things, which makes it hard to identify all the posts that could potentially contain personally identifiable information.
Here is the relevant video, if you are interested:
Seems this actually only applies to Californian citizens though, which I wasn't aware of.
Some kept the protest going (and still do), but it doesn't even matter as long as Reddit threatens to forcibly open subreddits back up and ban the moderators if they don't comply.It's the only way to protest against the admins.
The stupidity in the protest it was just 48 hours. It's a perfect time to do system upgrades, that it seemed Reddit did. So Reddit lost nothing on it.
You really need to learn what tyranny is. It was a protest, a blackout that's been done before on the internet against laws. That been repelled (and later renamed and entered law anyway). So it was just a tool they could show their disgust with Reddit HQ.
Also, I just personally saw this as a typical worker strike. And I knew it wouldn't do shit.