I personally experienced this. Many subreddits I was active in were not dark when I deleted comments and posts, but as of this morning all of my main account had its comments and posts restored,...
I personally experienced this. Many subreddits I was active in were not dark when I deleted comments and posts, but as of this morning all of my main account had its comments and posts restored, and my alt had everything ~5 years or older restored. Both with no communication to me.
So now, I have used the shreddit CLI app to delete all posts and comments for both accounts, and then deleted said accounts.
To me, it seems obvious that Reddit is, in fact, legally within their terms and conditions to do whatever they want with content I submitted. However, doing things like restoring explicitly deleted content may run them into trouble where someone was deleting something they may not have intended to be public, or no longer wanted to be public. Not everyone understands this stuff.
I personally experienced this. Many subreddits I was active in were not dark when I deleted comments and posts, but as of this morning all of my main account had its comments and posts restored, and my alt had everything ~5 years or older restored. Both with no communication to me.
So now, I have used the shreddit CLI app to delete all posts and comments for both accounts, and then deleted said accounts.
To me, it seems obvious that Reddit is, in fact, legally within their terms and conditions to do whatever they want with content I submitted. However, doing things like restoring explicitly deleted content may run them into trouble where someone was deleting something they may not have intended to be public, or no longer wanted to be public. Not everyone understands this stuff.