• grissee@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    this is what I fear, this is probably a hot take but I hope reddit might as well make it possible to see the first iteration of a comment, genuinely useful for knowledge subreddit

    • axtualdave@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Reddit has, throughout the years, said that they don’t keep a revision history of comments, only the text from the most recent comment and flags like “deleted”, “edited”, “removed by mods” etc.

      Of course, they could be lying, but a lot of these things were said before the recent drama and there’s no real reason to doubt.

      I suppose one could go dig up the old open-sourced code from like 2017 and see how comments and posts were stored then, and hope in the intervening years they hadn’t altered it?

      • blivet@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        I suspect it’s the truth. For a site the size of Reddit keeping a version history of comments would represent a huge expenditure of resources for essentially no purpose.