And yet reddit is happy to make money off our content for free.

Or at least it did. Personally I overwrote and deleted all my content a while back.

You think that Reddit didn’t already have the previous content saved?

i went looking for old comments and posts i had made after i overwrote then wiped them. They’re still gone. i looked again several months later, and they were still gone.

so, unless reddit did a massive restore of everyone’s comments/posts except for my 4 accounts, then i don’t believe they did it at all except for a select number of top contributors who deleted their content.

As I said in another comment, I was not suggesting that Reddit would restore your comments to public view.
there’s no evidence to suggest that, either.
Except for incidents like This
Reddit restored the last six months of my comments after I deleted them with shreddit. They also deleted everything older that I had saved.

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