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[โ€“] DocMcStuffin@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

There's one good news. Reddit didn't want to pay to move all the old DMs to the new chat infrastructure. So they deleted them.

[โ€“] hdnsmbt@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

Pretty sure they just didn't migrate to the new data structure and didn't actually delete the raw data. They're effectively deleted for users but not for Reddit.