Reddit removes years of chat and message archives from users' accounts

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Reddit removes years of chat and message archives from users' accounts
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Data storage/hosting isn’t free…

They're definitely not deleting that data. Just hiding it.

And they sell it to the highest bidder to train their next LLM, which seems to be all the rage at the moment.

Text data on a compressed drive is so small. You have a modern server and accessing text files in a compressed drive is not noticeable performance hit. The compression ratio is massive for text and markup language files