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Reddit nukes everyone’s pre-2023 chats and messages::Shooting itself in the foot again

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[–] Evoke3626@lemmy.fmhy.ml 22 points 1 year ago (4 children)

This is awesome news to privacy focused people. I don’t want this shit stored anywhere ever. I couldn’t be happier. And with that done, I will finally delete my 10 year old account.

[–] mriguy@lemmy.world 48 points 1 year ago (3 children)

They’ve made them unavailable to you, but if you think they’ve actually deleted them, you’re dreaming. Now you can’t delete them, but presumably they’ll sell them for as much as they can get. Spez was pretty clear that aggressive mometization of existing content was his business plan, and this is undoubtedly part of that.

[–] Evoke3626@lemmy.fmhy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Figured it would be too good to be true. I really already knew this but was in denial

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