They have warned about this before, but it’s still pretty wild to think they’re now removing old DMs (and chats, but it’s not like anyone used those).

Interestingly you can still see them if you take out your data via a request, so they got them in the database still.

  • Chozo@kbin.social
    6·
    1 year ago

    All of that is true, but they also could’ve said “Hey, we’re deleting these messages in a week, back up anything important, sorry for the short notice” and that would have been A-OK. Some people lost some sentimental messages and weren’t prepared to back them up because there was zero warning that this was happening.

    • Rikudou_Sage@lemmings.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      Someone said they’re still part of the GDPR export, you can try that. If it doesn’t work, use a VPN to connect from an EU country.