The creator of tildes.net is a former Reddit backend developer, and believes this behavior is likely due to how Reddit caching works (or doesn't work), rather than an intentional subversion of user intent:
Yes, this is almost certainly a technical issue. The way reddit caches things probably isn't the standard way you're thinking of, like a short-term cache that expires and refreshes itself. There are multiple layers of "cached" listings and items for almost everything, and a lot of these caches are actually data that's stored permanently and kept up to date individually.
For example, when you view your comments page, Reddit uses a cached (permanent) list of which comments are in that page. There is a separate list stored for each sorting method. For example, maybe you'd have something like this with some made-up comment IDs:
Deimos's comments by new: 948, 238, 153
Deimos's comments by hot: 238, 153, 948
Deimos's comments by controversial: 153, 238, 948
If I post a new comment, it will go through each list and add the new ID in the right spot (for example, in the "new" list it always just goes at the start). If I delete a comment, it goes through every list, and removes the ID if it can find it in there.
One of the problems with this system (which is probably what's causing @phedre's issues, and affecting many other people trying to delete their whole history) is that all of these listings are capped at 1000 items. If you already have more than 1000 comments and you post a new one, the 1000th comment currently in the new list gets "pushed off the end". The comment still exists, but you won't be able to see it by looking through your comments page, because it's no longer in that listing.
Deleting comments also doesn't cause previously "pushed off" ones to get re-added. If you have 5000 comments, your listing will only include 1000 of them. If you delete 50 of the ones in the listing, your listing now has 950 comments in it. If you delete all 1000 from the listing, your comments page will appear empty, but you actually still have 4000 comments that will be visible in the comments pages they were posted in.
And this is only one aspect of it. There are also multiple other places and ways that comments are cached—comment trees are cached (order and nesting of comments on a comments page, for all the different sorting methods), rendered HTML versions of comments are cached, API data is probably cached, and so on.
All of these issues are probably just some combination of all of your posts being difficult to find and access due to the listing limits or certain cached representations of posts not being cleared or updated properly.
There used to be a water park in my hometown that had a bunch of slides and a wave pool. I used to go there all the time as a kid, and even went there as a senior on a trip. I went to birthday parties there, sometimes....
The Texas from my childhood, most Texans dont give a shit about identity politics, you would think there are a bunch of brown hating cowboys - that was not the case Texas was incredibly tolerant.
Two big ones for me:
1- a local arcade. Spent so many summer days there with friends. TMNT, Street fighter, Mortal Kombat, etc etc etc.
2- laser quest! Lots of birthday parties there.
Seems like a win win. Reddit is fine with it and becomes a site promoting that Taiwan is a country and spreading awareness of Tiananmen Square massacre 1989. While subs return to normal....
People don’t realize that once you start down the path of taking away the fundamental human rights of people you don’t like, that road eventually leads back to your own home. It’s a one way street, so once you start down it, you can’t just stop and you can’t turn around.
“But you don’t understand! They are the bad guys!” yes, and eventually… so are you.
We just need to let it grow until it fills the New Safe Confinement. Then, in a century, when the NSC is due to be replaced we'll be off the hook thanks to the nuclear shroom.
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre became flustered on Friday after she was pummeled with questions about the most recent scandal involving President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden. The questions from nearly a half-dozen reporters stemmed from newly released testimony by two Internal Revenue Service...
If you look at my post history, I tend to write long things a lot, but I like emoji reacts too – Sometimes you just want to “yeah, love it!” or “Huh, made me think” or “Shocking!” and that’s not really appropriate for a whole post.
Reddit violates CCPA (youtu.be)
This video shows that Reddit refused to delete all comments and posts of its users when they close their account via a CCPA / GDPR request.
What’s a place from your childhood that doesn’t exist anymore? (kbin.social)
There used to be a water park in my hometown that had a bunch of slides and a wave pool. I used to go there all the time as a kid, and even went there as a senior on a trip. I went to birthday parties there, sometimes....
Majority of gamers play with subtitles turned on (gearsrealm.com)
For instance, Assassin’s Creed Origins had subtitles turned off by default and 60% of players turned them on.
Anyone suggest requiring all threads require mention of Taiwan is a country and Tiananmen Square massacre 1989? (kbin.social)
Seems like a win win. Reddit is fine with it and becomes a site promoting that Taiwan is a country and spreading awareness of Tiananmen Square massacre 1989. While subs return to normal....
Criticising the Irish Data Protection Commission and Big Tech to become illegal in Ireland if this bill passes (evil.social)
https://noyb.eu/en/irish-gov-makes-critizising-big-tech-and-irish-dpc-crime
Texas airport worker dies after being sucked into Delta jet engine (www.theguardian.com)
A worker at San Antonio’s international airport died after being sucked into a jet’s engine late on Friday, officials said.
Russian agents’ threat to family made Prigozhin call off Moscow advance (www.telegraph.co.uk)
Details offer clue as to why Wagner Group abandoned coup attempt that revealed ‘real cracks’ in Putin’s authority
TIL Fungi in Chernobyl appear to be feeding off gamma radiation and are growing towards the reactor core. (thebiologist.rsb.org.uk)
TIL Mr. T stopped wearing virtually all his gold, one of his identifying marks, after helping with the cleanup after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. He said, "I felt it would be insensitive and disrespectful to the people who lost everything." (en.wikipedia.org)
MrBeast says he declined to join submersible trip: 'Kind of scary that I could have been on it' | CNN (www.cnn.com)
YouTube star MrBeast said Sunday that he had been invited to join a submersible trip to the Titanic wreckage but declined.
Watch: KJP Melts Down as Reporters Team Up to Demand Answers on Hunter Biden Scandal - Newzasa (newzasa.com)
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre became flustered on Friday after she was pummeled with questions about the most recent scandal involving President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden. The questions from nearly a half-dozen reporters stemmed from newly released testimony by two Internal Revenue Service...
Dearest developers. Stop reinventing the wheel! (kbin.social)
(Please keep in mind this is something I've written in regards to all of these various social platforms, not just kbin, mastodon, lemmy, etc)...