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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Smells like desperately trying to save on storage costs.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

It's incredibly cheap, no way they don't have money for storage. They should fire their CEO instead lol

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Text takes very little space, so I don't think it is mainly about storage costs.

I think they just want to save the data migration costs.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They want to sell it to AI companies, so they need to make sure they can’t scrape it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You cannot sell active data without explicit consent but what if data that has been "deleted" accidentally gets shared with a 3rd party 🙈

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Heo the hell do you scrape private chat logs? lol. Get a grip.

[–] toasteranimation 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] CataclysmZA 6 points 1 year ago

They probably looked at Facebook's latest dumpster fire involving hauling data outside of the EU and decided to just not find a workaround.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's called doing the Elon. Or "musking"

[–] Cabrio 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Musking: the act of becoming an ouroboros of shit producing self consumption.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

How a about "coming in and stinking up the place"?

[–] Gamey 1 points 1 year ago

We have to email dictionaries till they add that!