That’s because the technical reasons ultimately don’t matter, they’re expensive but not insurmountable to a company.
If you had to take a backup of a massive system across multiple regions and maybe have to hire an entire engineering team to do it at a total cost of 200 Million, and an additional annual cost of 50 million to maintain it, but said backup of the data was/would be worth 500+ million dollars would you not do it?
Do you have any idea how much space energy maintenance and a plethora of other items it would take to be backing up every comment and post on the site?
Yes, and if said data is worth it, (or at least in the mind of whatever executive is in charge of such a decision at least or Spez himself) they would absolutely spend the money to store at least one complete backup. They’re mostly not doing monthly backups or whatever, but at least one prior to a major policy change announcement that they knew would piss off a lot of people is reasonable.
You’re thinking too logically here, to whatever executive (s) are in charge and probably Spez himself, data = AI = $$$, Lots of data = AI = $$$$$ someone along the lines went “Our users will probably be pissed and start fucking with their profiles, IT backup all the things” and IT/infra engineers probably went (Just like you) that’s going to be a LOT of data and cost" and then that same exec probably went “Idgaf, you’re just some engineer, you don’t how much value it has on the markettttt!! So do it”
Those “Don’t delete, overwrite” reddit tools have existed for a long time, do you really believe reddit didn’t take at least one complete db snapshot before the whole API shenanigans? They wouldn’t have multiple complete backups of the supposedly “very valuable” data?
so the solution no longer is there, depriving those who may be looking.
Which honestly, does more harm (to regular people) than good (harming reddit)
Nah, they’d just throw up a disclaimer “Not true medical advice, consult a doctor for actual confirmation” and they’d probably be in the clear
Spez could have swallowed his pride and like gig-economified (If that’s not a word yet, I stake my claim lmao) mods, could have probably gotten away with paying pennies on the dollar with the right scheme (ala Amazon turk). I could see the headlines now “Reddit making waves PAYING moderators”, “Make 500 bajilion Dollars JUST moderating for Reddit!” and people would have flocked to it lolol
This guy already figured it out AND got rich off it
Computer softwares are just fancy
electronwiggle controller
Ftfy
Prob closer to 6000
You’d be right, if the hardware AND software weren’t made by the same company and locked to each other and that same company didn’t simultaneously have a massive market share
I hate the amount of data American social media companies collect and what they do with it
I REALLY hate having Chinese or Russian or [Insert Authoritarian Hostile Country] doing it.
American companies do it for the pursuit of profits, Companies from these countries are doing it to topple our government or whatever.
Something something the devil you know…
Also, that data is from some mobile analytics firm, how reliable are those numbers?
With all the data these damn companies vacuum up, it better be damn reliable, otherwise what is even the fucking point lmao
What took so long lmao
Can’t tell if you’re joking or…because if you’re not…
Yea I kno, I’ve looked into it before and it can be summed up as “it’s a job with fun sexy bits, but lots of job bits still” LMAO
I would like to audit the OnlyFans 101, OF101 class please
Ah I get it now, you must be one of those school administrators who implements asinine dress codes for girls because “It’s too distracting for the boys”
They’ll learn just fine. Not to mention the myriad of ways of doing OF in a way that prevent IRL identification. Hell, OF has profile geo blocking as a built in feature lmao
Brb, going to go make an OF rq
Most adults are perfectly capable of siloing different parts of their lives, especially between work and personal lives.
But I can see you’re probably not part of most adults and therefore it MUST be impossible for everyone else…
But that’s the problem, I’ll gladly go elsewhere when I can, but on many occasions, for me personally, I have run into some random Reddit comment being the only place where the answer is. Luckily, so far when I’ve run into a comment containing a potential answer but has been overwritten I’ve been able to find it in an archive, but how long until that becomes a rarity? Real tangible knowledge has been/is being entirely lost