Analysis

Your own deleted Instagram posts come back from Recently Deleted for 30 days. Someone else's do not come back at all. Every method tested on 9 September 2026, with verdicts.

What Facebook keeps after you delete a post (Trash, Archive, 30 days), how to restore your own, and what still exists when someone else deleted theirs. Tested Sept 2026.

Discord does not keep deleted messages. Here is what the audit log shows, which logging bots and exports actually work, what gets you banned, and what an archive can still find.

Deleted Telegram messages are gone from Telegram for everyone. What the recovery apps really do, what survives in public channels and groups, and where copies still exist.

Six methods for recovering deleted and removed Reddit posts, all tested. What each one actually returns, and what to do when the author deleted the post.

Reddit archive API in 2026: what Pushshift, PullPush, Arctic Shift and Reddit's own API actually return, and how to evaluate any Reddit data provider.

THINKPOL's Reddit Deletion Index: 2.9% of captured comments are gone within a month, 95% CI 1.9% to 4.6%, n = 616. Method, cohorts and limits.

Removed and deleted Reddit comments are often still recoverable. Five methods tested in 2026, what each one returns, and a free comment lookup you can run now.

Reddit archive search explained: how archives capture posts before deletion, what survives removal, legality under GDPR, and free tools to search them.

Reddit's 2026 API changes and the Old Reddit login wall are closing public access. What it means for Pushshift, PullPush and Reveddit users, and why the archive already exists.