Yes. I loved Reddit for a LONG time. They started to crumble in my opinion when the added these Snooavatars, which later turned into a NFT scheme. I never bothered with these. The promise of the website was awesome though. Being able to follow interests and communities instead of people was a completely new concept, which I had never seen before. Now it feels like the corporate greed has finally completely taken over.
EDIT: Imho this should be changed. At least the first two points. It does not need to be 100% foolproof on other instances, as they may be down when the deletion happens, but I think that the instance, which hosts the content should NOT have the content after deletion. Another idea would be to edit comments / posts to just say "[removed]".
gif. With a hard g, because there is also .jiff and you could not distinguish otherwise.