▲ 183 ▼ Reddit removes years of chat and message archives from users' accounts (mashable.com) submitted 3 years ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to c/reddit@lemmy.world 29 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] hayes_@lemmy.world 5 points 3 years ago (2 children) Data storage/hosting isn’t free… permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Ryumast3r@lemmy.world 34 points 3 years ago (1 child) They're definitely not deleting that data. Just hiding it. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] igorlogius@lemmy.world 9 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) And they sell it to the highest bidder to train their next LLM, which seems to be all the rage at the moment. permalink fedilink source parent [–] thisbenzingring@wirebase.org 14 points 3 years ago* (1 child) 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 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] thepianistfroggollum@lemmynsfw.com -1 points 3 years ago Yes, text doesn't take up much space, but decades of text can easily take up a lot of space, especially when you track things like edits. Not to mention that this data isn't in text files. It's going to be in a database, so the number of records that need to be parsed will impact performance. How big that impact is depends on how they set the database up. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Ryumast3r@lemmy.world 34 points 3 years ago (1 child) They're definitely not deleting that data. Just hiding it. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] igorlogius@lemmy.world 9 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) And they sell it to the highest bidder to train their next LLM, which seems to be all the rage at the moment. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] igorlogius@lemmy.world 9 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) And they sell it to the highest bidder to train their next LLM, which seems to be all the rage at the moment. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] thisbenzingring@wirebase.org 14 points 3 years ago* (1 child) 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 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] thepianistfroggollum@lemmynsfw.com -1 points 3 years ago Yes, text doesn't take up much space, but decades of text can easily take up a lot of space, especially when you track things like edits. Not to mention that this data isn't in text files. It's going to be in a database, so the number of records that need to be parsed will impact performance. How big that impact is depends on how they set the database up. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] thepianistfroggollum@lemmynsfw.com -1 points 3 years ago Yes, text doesn't take up much space, but decades of text can easily take up a lot of space, especially when you track things like edits. Not to mention that this data isn't in text files. It's going to be in a database, so the number of records that need to be parsed will impact performance. How big that impact is depends on how they set the database up. permalink fedilink source parent