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Yes, that's certainly possible, but it's also out of my control. I have basically three options:
That's it. There's no guarantee it works, but it has a much higher chance of working than the other two.
And there's a good chance they delete old backups. Hosting every edit is expensive, so there's a decent chance they clean up old data after some months.
In 2019 the total size of the text stored by Reddit was only 50TB. A Petabyte of data in cold storage is only 12k a year so even if they 500x in size since 2019 (very unlikely) it’s a drop in their ARR. given they sell the data for advertising and for AI, they are not deleting it. Reddit also self hosts a lot of their infra (they used to present their architecture at kubecon) so the storage costs would be even lower