1003
Reddit removes years of chat and message archives from users' accounts (mashable.com)
submitted 3 years ago by [M, B] to c/technology@lemmy.world
161 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

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

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 19 points 3 years ago (2 children)

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.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 4 child comments
    •
  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    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.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •
  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    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.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •
  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    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

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •
  • [–] 2 points 3 years 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.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent