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View submission: Update on Pushshift
That again depends on the jurisdiction and isn't true globally
It's the internet - if you expect your publicly made comments (that you post anonymously) to remain private to reddit and reddit alone, you are simply naive. Do you also expect that you never appear in any photos or video as you walk around in public? Regardless of what reddit does, point 2 highlights the truth: your public posts on reddit are almost certainly copied and archived by others, not just pushshift.
That doesn't change that as of now, Reddit allowed a service to amass a large amount of data without any oversight by using their official API.
Completely missed the point here. I'm not sure where "oversight" suddenly came into it, but the point was to highlight that pushshift has never been the only thing to save/archive public data. Even with the API gone, that will continue to be the case. Reddit cannot guarantee that anything you delete is gone from the world, only their own system. If the public can see it, the public can archive it. If you are so concerned with something you say being saved forever, don't post it on a public forum.
I get that. Doesn't change a thing though. If Reddit can argue that they need that data for moderation purposes, they should keep and display it to mods. But it seems like they aren't convinced about this. Privacy trumps practicality in my view. Relying on a 3rd party solution without any oversight on the usage of data that ignores the laws the posts and comments were subject to isn't the way to go.
They do keep it. Their responses have been about limited access to it, (a short time window and only for their sub) which will be wholly ineffective. Thus far the lack of convincing reddit is more that the current reddit admins are clueless to what moderating a public forum is actually like. Mods have had to rely on third-party solutions because reddit's moderation tools are severely lacking and inadequate for the task. Talking about privacy on a platform where it's all openly publicly available while posting anonymously is a bit of an oxymoron. All those bots, spammers, and bad actors see this as a huge victory. Reddit will be objectively worse in the very near future.
There's nothing here!