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 dev@lemmy.my-box.devEnglish
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    1 month 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
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      1 month 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.