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I deleted every comment and post I had made and then deleted my account when they locked out Apollo. But it sounds like I missed out on getting the secret email and making the investment of a lifetime! /s 
I didn't realize I should have deleted my posts before my account. So they get to keep my stupid one-line asinine comments I made
Don't worry, they got to keep them anyways. There is zero reason to believe that comments and posts that were "deleted" by their creator actually vanished from reddits database and didn't just have a little "show public" set to "false" instead.
At least for EU residents, they are legally obliged to show what data they have on you and let you delete it. Should show well enough if they keep data for other non-EU people. At least if it turns out deleted content is still retained.
This only goes for personal data. The content you put on reddit is public.
Are you sure? Not saying you are wrong, I've just never heard about that or thought about it in those ways. Either way, in this scenarios it's not really public any more, is it?
I am pretty sure but I wouldn't insist on being right.^^
If you choose to delete a comment, you're choosing to make it no longer public.