- cross-posted to:
- technology@beehaw.org
- technology@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- technology@beehaw.org
- technology@lemmy.world
Reddit removes years of chat and message archives from users’ accounts::undefined
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Joke’s on them, everything I wanted was copied to local storage when it happened and the rest of my 14 years of reddit posts were overwritten with a single letter a and deleted.
As some other redditor said, reddit’s only value is our posts. delete all your content and let spez IPO the ashes.
Wow, they’re doing an impressively shitty job of owning Reddit.
Deleted all my comment and post history from there when I was directed to Lemmy. Zero regrets. Have not looked back. Find the engagement here far better; proper discussions without the trolls. Loving it… Also tried Mastodon and enjoying that too even though I never used twitter.
Used to spend hours each day on Reddit and was active contributor on the subreddits I subscribed to. Hoping we get some of the less popular and specialised communities here so we all got to make an effort to support the smaller ones by posting and commenting.
Man fuck those fascists. I am glad for every day that I am not on there writing content for them. Now granted my content might be shyte but it still drove revenue. 😆
Fascists, is it?
I’m doing a full history delete using my data request as a reference to all my comments. 17761 comments. Many stupid crap, but also many helpful tech related stuff that will no longer drive traffic to Reddit.
That’s just so sad to me. Is there any place we could tell people to store or upload these things? I hate that we’re losing so much because of one company’s hubris.
Honestly even an instance that’s just “deletedposts.lemmy” or something like that, to save posts that were useful.
Agree that it’s sad, and I’ve got the export of my posts if that ends up being useful… but idk what to do with it rn
Sooner or later someone will make something, either a site or actual software, that will be able to parse the dumps and present it in a user-friendly fashion. There are enough users out there with data dumps now to justify it.
If/when it happens it’ll also be possible to create an archive everyone can see and search that isn’t beholden to reddit at all.
using my data request as a reference to all my comments
You… absolute genius. Thank you, that should have occurred to me. 🤦 This I can just script to catch all the old ones that don’t show up in the user overview.
Their rate limiting is a bit annoying, but after adding a 3 second delay (maybe overkill) the deletions seem to be progressing steadily.
Good on you!
He really saw Elon destroy Twitter and decided to try a speedrun.
Reddit is sinking.Good thing I’ve brought a towel
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Now there’s a hoopy frood!
Hopefully the captain goes down with the ship.
The only thing he’s going down on right now is Elon’s ego.
I noticed this shortly before exiting Reddit. Thought it was just a glitch that a bunch of my chats were missing. Most of them were “thanks for the gold/award!” type messages, so it kind of goes right along with the stupid decision that to kill coins/awards.
Smells like desperately trying to save on storage costs.
Text takes very little space, so I don’t think it is mainly about storage costs.
I think they just want to save the data migration costs.
They want to sell it to AI companies, so they need to make sure they can’t scrape it.
Heo the hell do you scrape private chat logs? lol. Get a grip.
You cannot sell active data without explicit consent but what if data that has been “deleted” accidentally gets shared with a 3rd party 🙈
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They probably looked at Facebook’s latest dumpster fire involving hauling data outside of the EU and decided to just not find a workaround.
It’s incredibly cheap, no way they don’t have money for storage. They should fire their CEO instead lol
It’s called doing the Elon. Or “musking”
We have to email dictionaries till they add that!
Musking: the act of becoming an ouroboros of shit producing self consumption.
How a about “coming in and stinking up the place”?
In an effort to have a smooth and quick transition to this new infrastructure, we will migrate chat messages sent from January 1, 2023 onward. This change will be effective starting June 30th.
It really seems like everything reddit is doing is rushed and always chooses to harm the users as a default. It’s as if they’re actively sabotaging their own platform.
Every decision they’ve made in the recent past, they have went with the worst possibly option available. Repeatedly.
They don’t want users to be able to wipe their own chats manually or via GDPR requests.
If anyone asks, they will be told that the data is gone, but we all know that’s not the case. They do have backups.
My guess is that they saw they screwed up, and His Heinous Spez decided to tell everyone “in for a penny in for a pound, any other bandaids we’d like to rip off?”… Thus this type of anti-user moves.
To long, didn’t reddit.
Agh what the fuck guys. I had a months-long convo about when I ordered a custom kitchen knife from an awesome aussie I met on the platform. Thank goodness I remember his username on instagram because everything else is gone completely! Glad I moved to Lemmy.
Oh. Someone totally broke something and they are playing it off as intentional lol
For god’s sake. Time to request data.
I’m blown away by how it seems Reddit makes the wrong decision all the time.
When you’re the CEO of a platform you don’t care about anymore and just want to cash out, wrong decisions are a dime a dozen.
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It’ll blow over sooner if we do it while they’re still mad instead of making them mad again.
Bad move. Should have waited until people had cooled down from being mad. Now they’re mad for more than one reason, which makes them more likely to leave.
That conspiracy theory that Twitter and Reddit are being killed deliberately in order to stifle the public’s ability to organize mass movements during the lead up to the 2024 election is looking plausiblier and plausiblier. (It’s a perfectly cromulent word, shut up!)
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