I don’t know why I bothered to keep staying there for so long, probably cause of the games and sports I’ve been following but what did it for me was a shitty self-depreciating meme about fictional women not wanting them irl.

I basically disagreed and said I felt confident enough that wouldn’t be the case and then got accused of not understanding the joke (nigga said skill issue? How terminally online do you have to be 💀), obviously I did I just thought it was corny cause I don’t do self-depreciating humor.

Sorry not sorry I have too much self respect for that lol 🤷🏿‍♂️

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    There’s not really much point to that, except for I guess the ritual of deleting everything. They almost definitely keep all the ‘deleted’ data on their servers, and so do archive websites and dedicated reddit archives like reveddit.

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      I was going to ask, What’s the rationale for deleting posts? Opsec, maybe? I can see why some people would want to hide old posts from general public consumption even if the server-owners still have the text somewhere.

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        To make reddit worse for other people browsing reddit. User content is what makes a social platform worthwhile.

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      yeah it seemed pretty pointless as i went through deleting stuff (anything containing key words related to geopolitics, like capitalism, etc. at least - i never talked too much about that stuff on reddit so others may find doing even this to be time consuming). rather, i edited them and replaced them with 1s and then deleted them. but it gave me more peace of mind and at the least perhaps made it a bit tougher for background check companies if their data gathering and capabilities advance to being able to piece stuff like that together.