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

  • MyPornAlt@lemmynsfw.com
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    19
    ·
    1 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@lemmy.one
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      6
      ·
      1 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@lemmynsfw.com
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        7
        ·
        1 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@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      5
      ·
      1 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@lemmynsfw.com
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        5
        ·
        1 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@lemmy.one
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          1 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.