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by duskwuff 1099 days ago
> What happened to all the video and images that Reddit hosts?

Even just the text of comments and submissions is >>80GB per month.

I wouldn't be surprised if the "leak" deliberately excluded this data in favor of more interesting nonpublic data, though.

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> Even just the text of comments and submissions is >>80GB per month.

Surely that can't be true after compression?

Not 80 GB/mo, but they're still pretty huge after compression. Zstd compressed comments and submissions for Feb 2023 were ~34 GB.