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

  • Jackthelad@lemmy.worldEnglish
    45·
    2 years ago

    I just don’t understand what the top brass at Reddit are hoping to achieve with these changes.

    I mean, they’re universally hated. What’s the goal here?

    • TheSpookiestUser@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      2 years ago

      They aren’t universally hated. No one likes them, sure, but as with a lot of things the silent majority is in the “doesn’t give a fuck” camp. This is the camp Reddit is relying on to keep using the website no matter what they do.

      Now as for why, beats me.

      • TwilightVulpine@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        Only lurkers would be indifferent to losing all their messages. I guess they are likely more numerous but Reddit needs active users to keep functioning.

  • everythingsucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    39·
    2 years ago

    There’s nothing about it on the top two pages of Reddit so either people don’t care or let’s get out our tinfoil hats and make this make sense.

    • Strangle@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      2 years ago

      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?

      It’s all fake bullshit

  • AzPsycho@lemmy.worldEnglish
    29·
    2 years ago

    I bet this has to do with complying with court orders. Can’t turn over something you don’t have.

  • GONADS125@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    2 years ago

    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.

    • Asashin420@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      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

    • THE_STORM_BLADE@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Very true, glad I didn’t have anything super essential in the chats, but still peeved as there were a couple of nice interactions I had that I would occasionally look back on.