If a lemmy.ml user types ‘bitch’ in a comment it will actually get replaced with ‘removed’. They just won’t notice it until they check their own comments. That might be the reason why you see ‘removed’ even though your instance doesn’t have an active slur filter.
The Pirate Bay also doesn’t host content, just links to torrents. Why has it been taken down then several times already?
When you directly link pirated content it becomes a liability. Doesn’t matter if the actual content is on your own server or hosted with a third party.
You can believe what you want, but I literally did this a month ago. Editing my comments, then submitting a GDPR request and getting a large package of my data. Showing every up and downvote for example (which was over a million entries, ouch) and every comment and post I ever made in the last 11 years.
Deleting your comment does not delete the database entry. It’s up to discussion if that conforms to GDPR, because theoretically you could have personal data in your comment… but for now they don’t delete them. So obviously your GDPR request will contain deleted comments, as they are still right where you left them (and you agreed to the terms and conditions of Reddit which technically make any content you post on their platform their content legal wise).
If you edited your comment and then deleted it and the GDPR request showed the original comment… then that’s a different matter. As far as I tried out they don’t keep the comment from before the edit around. Though if you do it too fast, instant edit and delete maybe something gets messed up and the edit doesn’t stick. But this hasn’t happened to me yet (except I edit more than one comment in 3 seconds, then it gets rate limited).
Reddit admitted they only keep the last version of your comments around, so if you edit them with random crap it’s as close to deletion as you can get.
That’s not true. I edited (nearly) all my comments. Then did a GDPR request. All the comments I touched were overwritten in there.
I didn’t catch all of them though, it’s damn tough to get every single one. If you just go through your profile page by page they don’t show all. If you select “Top” comments you find more. If you select “Controversial” you find even more and so on. So I only managed to overwrite maybe 95% or something, but it’s good enough.
Oh and they also have caching and spam protection. So you have to slowly overwrite comments, about one comment every 3 seconds or you get rate limited. And directly after overwriting the comment it might still show up in the old version till their caching servers catch up. So maybe you thought you overwrote your comments, but in reality the requests failed in the background because you went too fast.
Yep! It only gets censored in two cases:
You are on an instance that censors words like this (e.g. lemmy.ml)
The user who wrote the comment is on an instance that censors this word (which actually replaces it in the comment), everyone sees it censored then