It’s for alternate Reddit front-ends and rarely ever works.
Comment on Every support thread on Reddit is literally this now
Treczoks@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
WTF? View removed comment?
popcar2@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
sk1nnym1ke@piefed.social 4 weeks ago
This must be new.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Welcome to “soft delete”, where database entries are marked with a “deleted” flag instead of being actually deleted. Makes it trivial to restore things a user has “deleted”. Actually, even without soft deletes, modern databases maintain an audit trail which tracks all changes made anywhere, which also makes it easy to restore “deleted” items. And actually actually, databases are regularly backed up and when a user “deletes” their data the sites don’t go into the backups and delete the data there, so everything anyone posts is technically in existence forever (not really because because backups won’t last forever but they can last a very long time).
I’m sure that when reddit sells its data to companies to train their AI on, they’re selling backups from before users started mass-deleting their histories.