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

  • @MyPornAlt
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    191 year ago

    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.

    • db2
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      61 year ago

      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.

      • @MyPornAlt
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        71 year ago

        Their rate limiting is a bit annoying, but after adding a 3 second delay (maybe overkill) the deletions seem to be progressing steadily.

    • LemmyLefty
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      51 year ago

      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.

      • @MyPornAlt
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        51 year ago

        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

        • db2
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          21 year ago

          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.