Apparently they don’t store an edit history for each comment. So if you delete it, the comment still exists on their servers marked as deleted. So technically they could decide to “undelete” everything.
But if you edit the comment, they lose the ability to restore it. Many tools offer the ability to edit your comments to gibberish before deleting them.
it’s probably the best option to edit it to a short message explaining why you deleted it and where you moved to. This provides more context than simply deleting them.
Well put! Indeed, people that are sure that they will see Reddit collapse soon are wrong due to the points you mention.
I love the “great experiment” vibe of this place. It’s right now truly up to all of us, whether it’s posting, commenting, voting, coding, hosting or informing people, we all can contribute to this big giant middle finger to this inevitable enshittification that happens to every free social media platform in the name of endless growth and profit.