L4sBot@lemmy.worldMB to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoReddit removes years of chat and message archives from users' accountsmashable.comexternal-linkmessage-square74fedilinkarrow-up134arrow-down11file-textcross-posted to: RedditMigration@kbin.socialtechnology@lemmy.worlddach@feddit.detechnology@beehaw.orgsnoocalypse@lemmy.mlreddit@lemmy.worldreddit@lemmy.ml
arrow-up133arrow-down1external-linkReddit removes years of chat and message archives from users' accountsmashable.comL4sBot@lemmy.worldMB to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square74fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: RedditMigration@kbin.socialtechnology@lemmy.worlddach@feddit.detechnology@beehaw.orgsnoocalypse@lemmy.mlreddit@lemmy.worldreddit@lemmy.ml
minus-squareCloudless ☼@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoText takes very little space, so I don’t think it is mainly about storage costs. I think they just want to save the data migration costs.
minus-squarevzq@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoThey want to sell it to AI companies, so they need to make sure they can’t scrape it.
Text takes very little space, so I don’t think it is mainly about storage costs.
I think they just want to save the data migration costs.
They want to sell it to AI companies, so they need to make sure they can’t scrape it.