People used reddit chat?
this post was submitted on 14 Jul 2023
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I always assumed that trolls used it for brigading since people on 3rd party apps couldn't see it.
Yeah, I got into a disagreement with someone in a thread once and for a year or two, they'd just message me at random times to yell at me and accuse me of making them suicidal. I eventually blocked them and should have done it sooner. Aside from that, most other messages were just people sharing in game names for multiplayer stuff and Animal Crossing dodo codes.
I had to turn the chat off because I was actively helping Linux noobs and then they sent too many private messages to me.
you'd be surprised, I've heard from other reddit users that entire discord servers, wikis, & other communities would first start from reddit group chats so apparently there were a lot super involved in it. one of the big community partnered discord servers I was in told me the only reason they were on discord at first was because reddit chat made it hard to search old messages
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.
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.
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Why?
They want to destroy the Left's ability to share ideas and congregate.
I was speculating that maybe they are going to drive the stock price into the ground and the magically "fix everything" to make it go back up, and make money on that...somehow. I'm not a stocks person so I don't know.
This isn't how corporations work. One, they don't have that kind of foresight. All most of them care about is the next quarter, and being more profitable than they were at the same time the previous year. Two, they're not going to purposefully tank their own stock, not for any reason. If "they" did (assuming you mean the C-suite folks who would be in charge of operations), they would be replaced by shareholders pretty quickly for not fulfilling their fiduciary duty.
Year 2030 is a global target for renovations in every aspects of societies and countries.
Year 2030 is a global target for renovations in every aspects of societies and countries.
According to whom? What kind of world do you live in where there's some kind of overarching "force" with "targets" like that?
If I'm being honest, it sounds like conspiracy theory BS.
You’re right. In my experience, the Blackrock thing is the bait to a slippery slope of crazy conspiracies and MRA goonery.
Year 2030 is a global target for renovations in every aspects of societies and countries.
By what method? Is that when the secret computer chip in the vaccine will turn on and kill us? Thereby removing all the people who have shown they'll do anything the government tells them to do, leaving behind all the staunch and distrustful individualists who are harder to control? Or is this some other global renovation?
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I am no longer apathetic but livid
Fuck u/spez.
"First they came for the API..."
"First they came for the API..."
Deletion of personal data without consent or lawful base is also a violation of the GDPR.
They probably still have it. I did a gdpr request then overwrote and deleted all my posts. Then deleted my 11 year account. A couple of weeks later I got the request contents, which contained every post, every comment and every DM I ever made. Reddit does not delete when it's supposed to.
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.
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This sounds like it would hurt Reddit more than the users since a lot of value was in being able to search archived solutions to obscure problems.
It's just the chat though, not posts comments. I've probably used chat 3 times since it exists, I couldn't care less about the history. I'm sure most don't mind. Still, Reddit sucks.
If I understand correctly, this is only about private chats and private messages. Public comments you still have to blank/delete personally, and Reddit seems to be keeping restoring them.
I'm finding they are stealth restoring them. As in, I've deleted all my posts/comments, but every once and a while, I'm finding someone replying to a post I've most definitely deleted. And my profile shows no posts/comments associated with my account.
What is much more likely is that you didn't delete all your comments and posts. Reddit "listings" only go back 1000 items and if you delete an item from there older items don't pop into view. So if you deleted all comments visible from your profile and you had posted more than 1000 comments you effectively never deleted all your comments.
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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
They still have it. I did a gdpr request then overwrote and deleted all my posts. Then deletedy 11 year account. A couple of weeks later I got the request contents, which contained every post, every comment and every DM. Reddit dies not delete when it's supposed to.
I don’t know if that’s across the board. I overwrote and deleted my accounts after Apollo shut down. Waited a week, checking in periodically, to see if any of my content made it back into my accounts. After a week of nothing resurfacing I felt safe deleting my accounts.
Reddit is really going downhill. Yay Lemme
man, what a shitty move. i had some chats that i wanted to keep in case i needed them in the future but forgot to back up :(
It seems there's a form you can submit asking Reddit to retrieve them, if you wish to explore that option.
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The are apparently still available through old.reddit as well
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