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I analysed 20 years of my chats

by valzevul on 5/27/2026, 11:31:13 PM

https://drobinin.com/posts/am-i-a-bad-friend/

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by: NDlurker

I wanted to do this so bad back in like 2009. I archived MSN messenger chats and my texts and everything and I figured sometime in the future I'd be able to analyze them and maybe even train a chat bot to imitate me. But over the years I lost hard drives and cell phones and accidentally deleted stuff and yeah it didn't happen. Very cool this guy was able to do it

5/28/2026, 5:10:56 AM


by: Cider9986

I mostly text on Signal with disappearing messages so I wouldn't be able to do this. Most people are fine with disappearing messages at 4 weeks, but a few people like to keep their chats forever.

5/28/2026, 5:21:28 AM