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.
People used reddit chat?
I did. I was contacted several times by people who read my post about central serous chorioretinopaty, an eye pathology I have. People asked me for advice, we exchanged our experiences, they asked me how I was faring. I wrote that post in 2014. Last contact was some month ago.
I’m an occult nerd and my reddit chat was moderately active with discussions about that. It wasn’t extremely popular, and it never turned into a persistent thing with more than two people, but it seemed like reddit chat was a good way to break the discussion out into a 1 on 1 where appropriate.
Yep, it was. I dunno if it would be best to open an instance about my eye disease or what, wait for Lemmy to have a chat… It’s often misattributed: people believe opticians need to resolve the issue while it’s stress related. So, in a way I could help.
I had to turn the chat off because I was actively helping Linux noobs and then they sent too many private messages to me.
All I ever got was spam.
They just keep fucking it up there.
Don’t you see a pattern? Every Blackrock/Vanguard owned businesses are driving themselves down on purpose.
To my knowledge, Reddit is owned by private companies and investors. Blackrock and Vanguard have no ownership stake, or a very small and very indirect ownership stake.
For what it’s worth, a significant percentage of every (reasonably liquid) public company on Earth is owned by Vanguard and Blackrock, because those companies manage trillions of dollars in assets (many of which are middle-class people’s retirement investments). They aren’t a conspiracy. They’re asset managers, and mostly passive managers at that.
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’m guessing you watched the same YouTube bs that I stumbled upon where the downfall of organizations such as Netflix is attributed to Blackrock. That channel is such blatant propaganda/conspiracy theories that I don’t think Blackrock is anything but a target for conspiracy theorists much like Bill Gates is.
@Nuuskis9 @thatonedude1210 all wall street businesses do pump-n-dump cycles. Lol. Take the tinfoil hat off.
Deletion of personal data without consent or lawful base is also a violation of the GDPR.
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.
That is true, in the GDPR, processing is defined as follows(Art 4): “‘processing’ means any operation or set of operations which is performed on personal data or on sets of personal data, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, organisation, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction;” And a data beach is defined as follows: “‘personal data breach’ means a breach of security leading to the accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorised disclosure of, or access to, personal data transmitted, stored or otherwise processed;” And article 5 says: “processed in a manner that ensures appropriate security of the personal data, including protection against unauthorised or unlawful processing and against accidental loss, destruction or damage, using appropriate technical or organisational measures (‘integrity and confidentiality’).”
There is still legitimate use, as you still have the account and an accidental or unlawful deletion is a data breach.
I am no longer apathetic but livid
Fuck u/spez.
“First they came for the API…”
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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
If I still had my Reddit accounts I’d be P I S S E D
Reddit is really going downhill. Yay Lemme
