So, I see r/NZ is back. That’s it? What an anemic protest. I guess I’m honestly surprised more people don’t care. I expected the protest to go on longer, but I guess I overestimated how much the average user cared about this.

Unfortunately, I think it probably means we won’t see a lot of growth in Lemmy now. Shame.

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    If you used Power Delete Suite, please double check your comments/posts are really gone. There have been multiple reports that Reddit brings back deleted posts/comments.

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      It’s important to overwrite them, otherwise they are just flagged as deleted but easy for admins to undelete.

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        Yeah you’re right. Power Delete Suite can do that, but I don’t think it does it by default. But I think I’ve seen reports that even when editing, posts are brought back to live.

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          Most likely it’s just an issue with the software or API. Perhaps it hits a rate limit and ignores some requests.

          I doubt admins are restoring individual posts that they like. It doesn’t seem to make sense.

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            I’m not too sure. They are forcing subreddits to re-open, and in the past they have edited comments in favor of reddit.

            Reddit content is very valuable, when I Google for opinions, I always add “reddit” to the query.

            Many people who reported the issue say that their profiles initially showed up as empty, but were restored a couple of hours later.