Reddit @lemmy.world BrikoX @lemmy.zip 1 yr. ago

Reddit removes years of chat and message archives from users' accounts

mashable.com Reddit removes years of chat and message archives from users' accounts

Many Redditors were caught off guard by the removal of their chat and message history.

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Damn they really hate their users
- You mean customers
  
  Their customers are investors and ad agencies.
  
  The users aren't customers. They're the product they offer to their customers.
"Removes" or "hides them so that you think they're gone and won't try to delete them manually but they're still keeping them for nefarious reasons that mere mortals cannot fathom"?

Edit: I noticed by sheer coincidence that my reply to the next comment was removed. I SERIOUSLY do not know why. I'm very confused and if I did anything wrong, I'm unable to learn from this without being told what I did wrong.
- Well, request your data under GDPR and if they're only hidden, they should still be included: https://www.reddit.com/settings/data-request
  
  Did that a few weeks ago, yeah. Can people outside our socialist EU-cuck utopia do that? Also, I still haven't heard any definitive answers as to whether right to be forgotten includes comments and private messages.
... well to be fair nobody should have used those as long term storage solutions. But they still could have been nicer and more clearly announce their intention so people who care would have gotton a chance to save their stuff. - Just posting it in some changelog doesn't sound very noticable.
- This is Reddit we’re talking about they don’t do reasonable requests such as “advanced notice”
Permanently Deleted
- According to Reddit, "empowering the userbase"
- Data storage/hosting isn’t free…
  
  They're definitely not deleting that data. Just hiding it.
  
  Text data on a compressed drive is so small. You have a modern server and accessing text files in a compressed drive is not noticeable performance hit. The compression ratio is massive for text and markup language files
We're migrating legacy chat to another platform but only chats since the beginning of 2023 Who the fuck considers less than a years worth of chat legacy. Smh. It's sad to see reddit burn it's foundation to ashes. Lemmy here we come
Committing seppuku in the name of profits. It seems lots of newly minted CEOs/Millionaires need to do this a few times before they learn to stop fucking over their customers, some not even then.
But they keep trying to restore my posts and comments. Once a week I login to check and there’s always something back.
- Sounds like a toxic relationship
Oh no all those chat requests from girls living just 3 miles from {location}!
Whatever. Anyone still there is getting what they deserve. You know what a garbage company they are, you have nobody but yourself to blame. Most messages I ever got on there were from accounts pushing OnlyFans accounts.

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