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Let's say you made a comment on rexxit, then went back to fix a typo, saved the change, then noticed a missing word and went back to fix that. You've had three 'different' comments: original, typo fixed, final.
The way rexxit worked was that it only saved your current comment, plus the most recent previous version. After you fixed the typo, they had your original comment and the fixed-typo version in their database; when you replaced the missing word, they deleted your original comment from the database, moved the fixed-typo version to the 'backup' field, and put the final version in the 'visible comment' field.
People who deleted their accounts and wanted to make sure their content was gone, can scripts that replaced the original comment with a temporary comment, and then either deleted their comment or replaced it with a final comment - meaning that rexxit lost the original content that was valuable to them, and the user was sure their content was removed.
During the API Wars, some people just deleted their original content and then later saw it re-appear; the speculation was that rexxit was restoring deleted content. This was particularly annoying for people who deleted their content and then deleted their accounts, because they couldn't get back in the re-delete their stuff.
It's possible that rexxit modified their code to save an additional copy(s) of changed content; is possible that rexxit is no longer restoring content that got deleted en masse. But I'd suggest running something that changes your content, and then either changes it again or delete it, and then waiting before you delete your account.
Also, you're probably not going to be able to get rid of everything: rexxit only allowed you access to your 1000 most recent comments and 1000 most recent posts. I had to delete those, delete everything that had been gilded, and ... there was some other category that I specifically had to delete, but I don't remember what it was, sorry. I waited another week or so, them googled it username on rexxit and deleted everything it found (same thing on Bing/DDG), then repeated it s couple more times over the month or so that followed. I still find occasional content on the site, which is annoying.
Anyway, depending on whether you just want to send people to Lemmy, or want to screw over rexxit, just be aware that doing so fully may take a bit of effort. If it helps at all, I used PowerDeleteSuite.
Rexxit?