As the title says, Reddit replied to my GDPR request to delete all my data saying I had to do it first, which I suspect is in violation of GDPR law.
Reddit’s argument is that to comply with GDPR, they just need to dossociate your account from your posts, so the latter cannot be traced back to you. However, the argument could be made that the posts themselves are enough data to be linked to you.
Is there any type of response that could be framed in legal terms to make reddit really remove all the content from my account?
I don’t have a solution to your question, but I started deleting my account annually so that it was harder to track me, spy on me, and sell my information.
Before I started doing that, I had an account with 900,000 karma. When you asked for your account to be deleted, the Reddit automated response was ‘Are you sure you want to do this? After one month, all of your content will be deleted.’ And that’s what happened. If I look on reddit, my posts were gone. On google, I could find people mentioning my username but not any actual posts by that account.
TLDR: They used to threaten you with deleting all of your posts, and, based on my experience, they did exactly that with my old account.
It’s kinda funny to see them flip to threatening to keep your content.