> In our continued pursuit of empowering communities, we are transitioning to a new chat infrastructure<p>Okay what does that have to do with anything...<p>> In an effort to have a smooth and quick transition to this new infrastructure, we will migrate chat messages sent from January 1, 2023, onward<p>Oh so some tech lead wants to get promoted based on "made the chat system 500% faster" and they're going to do it by deleting 99% of chat messages. Bogus.
Glad to see Reddit following in Twitter's footsteps. Hopefully Instagram will be next. When social media's dead, the world will be a better place.