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

Reddit removes years of chat and message archives from users’ accounts::undefined

  • db2@lemmy.oneEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Many of those left on reddit, not all but many, are the ones who were happily shitting on the mods who were protesting. Fuck those trolls, they voted for the Leopard Party. The rest of us did a data request like it said when the shenanigans started because the writing was on the wall.

        • VindictiveJudge@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          1 year ago

          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.

          • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            1 year ago

            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!)

  • AbidanYre@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Remember when people were critical of Lemmy because an instance admin could shut down and you’d lose all your account history…

  • lennybird@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Not terribly upset at this, but it does suck that we had to look to 3rd-party applications to be able to properly search our own comment history. I have thousands of comments going back a decade and I reference a lot of stuff to save time. In my pursuit to archive some of my write-ups, it became impossible to do so with the absence of Push Shift / Camas.

    Oh well fuck it; Reddit admins royally fucked me over with a bullshit suspension and won’t even hear out an appeal. Bonus that they only let you use… 250 characters to explain.

  • rbar@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    And here they were saying the private subreddits were causing usability issues…

    The admins, not to be out done, have now just broken search links and user experience for the whole rest of the site. Not just for the private subreddits.

    I can take my browsing somewhere else, but the biggest casualty of reddit’s implosion for me will be the years of help posts in hardware and Linux focused subs.

  • frazw@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    My gut tells me they are not deleted but rather simply no longer publicly available. Can’t have these pesky AI bots training for free.

    • dhork@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I think it’s the opposite. These are private chats that can’t be sold to the AI, that’s why Reddit thinks they’re worthless.

  • ShaktiAmarantha@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    This is such weird self-destructive behavior by Reddit.

    One oddity: I requested a complete archive on June 21 and received it on July 6, and for some reason it includes my incoming private messages going back only to Oct 2021.

    I expected it to be either complete (~2015) or chopped off at 1/1/2023 like chat. Why Oct 2021???

  • Altima NEO@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Oh that’s fine. Fuck the Reddit chat function. Only scammers and spammers ever messaged me on that shit.

      • dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        The self help bot is worse. It was only used to push vulnerable people over the edge and for pissing off people who couldn’t pm someone who disagrees with them.