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this post was submitted on 14 Jul 2023
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My gut tells me they are not deleted but rather simply no longer publicly available. Can't have these pesky AI bots training for free.
More likely just moved to cold storage to save money. It’s expensive to keep data in an easily accessible database. If you don’t need to access it you can move it to object storage for pennies on the dollar and still keep it accessible for whatever nefarious data brokers you want to sell it to in the future
They’re implementing new chat infrastructure and only replicated 2023/01/01 forward. It’s in the article.
Oh man.
To be able to have a long running project and decide to truncate years worth of data...
Just, drop it like you never need it again.
Apart from working at Reddit, sounds like a dream