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

  • 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@lemmynsfw.com
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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.