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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I don't think it is in backups only. My guess is they store your full edit history for each comment/post/whatever. Newest one will be shown on the frontend, rest is for data vampires

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

This is it exactly. Edits to use are "changed". To the back end it's just an iteration while the rest still exist.