You would be surprised about what content reddit curates and keeps from getting amplified.
Do you guys remember when you’d be banned from Facebook for posting the NY Post article about Hunter’s laptop? Or the the NY Post Twitter account was banned?
It’s all to serve a narrative, all the time, forever.
How many times did you hear “He crossed state lines!” As if that was a crime, or something?
Private messaging after a post on a local subreddit is how I met my now wife, back in college. Would go back and look at our awkward exchanges from 10 years ago occasionally.
Glad I screenshotted them years ago, now that they're off reddit. Figured that would happen eventually.
If I'm not mistaken, Reddit plans to develop a new chat system, sort of. I remember back when I still use reddit in new reddit, there was a new chat with all my old chats put in some sort of legacy chat categories.
Maybe that legacy chat is what they're planning to nuke? Even then I think it's stupid. I can't even see the difference between the new and old chat.
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.
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.
This is a good point. It’s more likely that they changed their underlying storage infrastructure/access and don’t want to deal with data migrations. Data migrations are very expensive and non-value add.
So, yeah, probably some messed up data processing still going on behind the scenes and now you CAN’T delete them because you cannot access them. I could even see that last bit being the entire point. They’ve removed easy access to delete any messages along with any reminder of what exists that Reddit has. Oh god damn it it’s probably both of these things. Much easier to run data processing on something people don’t try to access often.
People are so fucking dumb that they will still be using reddit. The value is in the content they generate which people do not understand.
With all the changes r/spez made , anyone with some brain would leave the platform and let the website crash and burn but people are so dumb that they will make r/spez a billionaire and then complain about it.
Didn't seem to be supported in 3rd party app (sync pro anyways) or i probably would have at some point. Probably a lesson there for the fediverse. If a feature exists and you want people to use it, don't make it invisible(or so bad it should be invisible)
For developers a list of features that people aren't using should probably be posted and also with a quick gif of it in action so those not technically inclined can recognize them
I haven't because unfortunately some content is still there and some communities haven't left, but the rest of the time is Lemmy.
That and I don't think I am capable of actually deleting it there is too much stuff there that although I have backed up I would feel bad that would dissapear by my own hand.
lucky for me that completely banned me. everytime i tried to create a new account, they shadow banned me. So now its not as exciting as it was before and now after their latest changes, I dont even care anymore