Reddit recently removed years of chat and message archives from users’ accounts without warning as part of an infrastructure upgrade. Many Redditors were upset to discover that their chat histories from before January 2023 were no longer accessible. Reddit claims they only migrated data from 2023 forward during the transition to the new chat infrastructure. Some users were able to retrieve some of their old messages by requesting their Reddit data, though others reported that not all messages were recovered. Along with this change, Reddit has recently made other unpopular decisions like ending Reddit Gold, showing a lack of communication and consideration for users’ sentimental attachment to their online data.
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People used reddit chat?
you’d be surprised, I’ve heard from other reddit users that entire discord servers, wikis, & other communities would first start from reddit group chats so apparently there were a lot super involved in it. one of the big community partnered discord servers I was in told me the only reason they were on discord at first was because reddit chat made it hard to search old messages
I had to turn the chat off because I was actively helping Linux noobs and then they sent too many private messages to me.
I always assumed that trolls used it for brigading since people on 3rd party apps couldn’t see it.
They just keep fucking it up there.
Don’t you see a pattern? Every Blackrock/Vanguard owned businesses are driving themselves down on purpose.
Why?
They want to destroy the Left’s ability to share ideas and congregate.
I was speculating that maybe they are going to drive the stock price into the ground and the magically “fix everything” to make it go back up, and make money on that…somehow. I’m not a stocks person so I don’t know.
This isn’t how corporations work. One, they don’t have that kind of foresight. All most of them care about is the next quarter, and being more profitable than they were at the same time the previous year. Two, they’re not going to purposefully tank their own stock, not for any reason. If “they” did (assuming you mean the C-suite folks who would be in charge of operations), they would be replaced by shareholders pretty quickly for not fulfilling their fiduciary duty.
Year 2030 is a global target for renovations in every aspects of societies and countries.
Year 2030 is a global target for renovations in every aspects of societies and countries.
According to whom? What kind of world do you live in where there’s some kind of overarching “force” with “targets” like that?
If I’m being honest, it sounds like conspiracy theory BS.
You’re right. In my experience, the Blackrock thing is the bait to a slippery slope of crazy conspiracies and MRA goonery.
Year 2030 is a global target for renovations in every aspects of societies and countries.
By what method? Is that when the secret computer chip in the vaccine will turn on and kill us? Thereby removing all the people who have shown they’ll do anything the government tells them to do, leaving behind all the staunch and distrustful individualists who are harder to control? Or is this some other global renovation?
Haha it is funny that you oppose only with the arguments you read from fact checkers instead of going to Youtube and see what those globalists says by themselves. In every country the top politicians goes regularly to their meetings who talks harsh things directly and all you know is that all they talked is a conspiracy theory. You always repeat the sentences who nobody actually said, expect fact checkers. Lol
Since you described them as “globalists”, it’s clear that anything you say can easily be disregarded
If only we could have understood how dangerous it would be for one or two generations of people with zero understanding of what “research” means to be allowed to propagate that misunderstanding to hundreds of millions of people.
Watching videos on YouTube doesn’t equal “research,” and thinking it does is actively making you stupid.
Firstly, the term “globalists” is an anti-Semitic dogwhistle. Beyond that usage, it’s meaningless.
Secondly, YouTube is riddled with disinformation. This is primarily due to the algorithm which drives receptive users to extremist videos (and skeptical users who might refute those videos away from them). It’s also because it’s a lot more difficult to fact-check spoken language than written language.
I’m not siding with that maniac but can you please elaborate how “globalist” is code for antisemitism? I thought it was a rallying call for nationalists with no racial connotations but I’m obviously missing something.
The fucking Black Rock conspiracy again! That’s just the gateway to incel bullshit.
What’s the conspiracy part in Blackrock in your personal beliefs?
Blackrock is “evil” insofar as it is a corporation, and corporations are evil. They’re not the fucking New World Order or some stupid bullshit.
I know it feels good to believe that powerful entities are controlling things behind the scenes. But “feels good” doesn’t always comport with “true.”
I am no longer apathetic but livid
Fuck u/spez.
This sounds like it would hurt Reddit more than the users since a lot of value was in being able to search archived solutions to obscure problems.
It’s just the chat though, not posts comments. I’ve probably used chat 3 times since it exists, I couldn’t care less about the history. I’m sure most don’t mind. Still, Reddit sucks.
If I understand correctly, this is only about private chats and private messages. Public comments you still have to blank/delete personally, and Reddit seems to be keeping restoring them.
I’m finding they are stealth restoring them. As in, I’ve deleted all my posts/comments, but every once and a while, I’m finding someone replying to a post I’ve most definitely deleted. And my profile shows no posts/comments associated with my account.
If I still had my Reddit accounts I’d be P I S S E D
Deletion of personal data without consent or lawful base is also a violation of the GDPR.
They probably still have it. I did a gdpr request then overwrote and deleted all my posts. Then deleted my 11 year account. A couple of weeks later I got the request contents, which contained every post, every comment and every DM I ever made. Reddit does not delete when it’s supposed to.
Do you have a citation for this? It conflicts with what I know about GDPR.
Mostly GDPR encourages companies to delete personal data they were holding once they no longer have a legitimate use for it. There is a rule where you can demand your data be frozen if so that misuse cam be investigated and in that case you’d be right. But in general companies can and should delete personal data.
Reddit is really going downhill. Yay Lemme
man, what a shitty move. i had some chats that i wanted to keep in case i needed them in the future but forgot to back up :(
It seems there’s a form you can submit asking Reddit to retrieve them, if you wish to explore that option.
thanks for letting me know!
All worthwhile content from reddit needs to be gathered and archived somewhere outside their reach or it will be lost.
the archiveteam reddit project is doing just that
