L4sBotReddit removes years of chat and message archives from users' accounts
frazwMy 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
irkliThis. My static websites are on GCP with Cloudflare https. Storage costs are almost literally zero. I pay when people access/read. My storage cost is never over 8 bucks/month. Unused, 10 cents a year.
How much data are you storing and how much do you think reddit is?
Oh no comparison! Mines like 10 to 50 gb. I assume reddit’s is in high terabytes.
The point is cloud services charge for data leaving storage over networks.
Just guessing, and I’m not gonna RTFM and do the math, but for “cold line” storage a static petabyte would be maybe hundreds of dollars/mo max. That’s noise to them.