Do the advantages of deleting one’s entire Reddit history outweigh the disadvantages?

I have previously nuked my first Reddit account because it felt satisfactory to be completely detached from a platform one considers unethical/bad. Though, I have garnered quite some history on a second account—because Duty Calls*, of course—and I’m considering doing the same.

However, I don’t want to do it impulsively. I think I might be blind to some disadvantages. What do you think?

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  • just another devEnglish
    4•3 months ago

    Also, its not clear reddit is able to retain deleted posts. They have a vast live site to maintain - why would they ever have been focused on having an immutable back up of all deleted posts?

    They do, though. Last year when there was a small exodus to Lemmy, lots of people deleted their history. Which reddit then recovered.

    The truth is, marking a comment or post as deleted, literally only takes one bit to store. deleted=1 or 0. However, if you go back and overwrite all your comments (not with an identical message, because that is easy to detect) - that would take more effort to recover.

    • @MostlyBlindGamer@rblind.comEnglish
      4•3 months ago

      People deleted the content they had access to. As protesting subreddits went back to being public, the content they hadn’t been able to delete became visible again.