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umbraroze ,
@umbraroze@kbin.social avatar

A lot of people are boasting here like "well I just deleted my 15+ year account with quintillion karma."

I'm not going to delete my account yet (but probably won't be posting anything on Reddit either). Instead, I came up with a Strange Hobby.

Because password managers are so ubiquitous and easy to use and everyone should use one, I somehow found a complete list of all Reddit throwaway accounts I had over the years. (You know, from back when you could create accounts in seconds and Reddit didn't make you sign a blood pact or whatever.)

So I've been deleting those accounts. There was a pile of them.

And I like to every time I delete an account, a little siren goes off in Reddit HQ and Spez is like "Aaaaagggh! Not another one!"

collegefurtrader ,

If ass pennies were reddit accounts

btaf45 ,

"well I just deleted my 15+ year account with quintillion karma."

Your account only had a quintillion karma? My account had a sextillion karma.

VulcanSphere ,
@VulcanSphere@kbin.social avatar

Just uninstalled Relay and from now will rely on libreddit and old.reddit for feeds from the Snoo Platform.

Stopkilling0 ,
@Stopkilling0@kbin.social avatar

Why does rif still work for me? Anyone know what's going on? I got the 429 this morning but now it's working exactly as before.

luckystarr ,

It will probably work until your temporary credentials time out, the old API will be shut off or you try to re-login.

Logging out will shut it off for good. You probably won't be able to log in again then.

AnalogyAddict ,

As a victim of domestic violence who has spent years online trying to help other victims, Reddit's act of undeleting several of my deleted comments just made me have to go through and manually delete. In the process, I had to relive a huge chunk of trauma.

I'm not feeling okay right now.

AnalogyAddict OP ,

@tenth

That's what I used the first time. I was hoping manually deleting them this time would make it stick. Thanks, though.

r00ty Admin ,
r00ty avatar

You know it's probably on page 1023 of the privacy policy. I think it's more to the point to ask, how do they think this is the right way to approach the problem they have?

All it's going to do is severely reduce the chance people will ever go back to that platform. I think with the response to the API changes, reddit was backed into a corner (in a corporate sense) and is now showing their true colours.

tryplot ,

PSA: while upvoting exists, to get the "move closer to the top" effect that reddit's upvote had, you need to click boost

lwuy9v5 ,

In case any folks who are on a lemmy instance instead of kbin see this post (Hello new users!), boost is a kbin feature, which is a different type of “software” than lemmy. The main kbin instance is kbin.social , which can interact with both Lemmy and Mastodon instances

tl;dr - kbin is different than lemmy. They all talk to each other though. Boost is kbin only

Chozo ,

Reddit admins appear to be removing links to Lemmy instances posted in comments.I'm seeing quite a few "[Removed by Reddit]" comments in /r/RedditAlternatives this evening. Anybody else seeing their comments being manipulated by Reddit staff today?

l-rs ,

@Chozo Huffman is really taking all the cues from his hero Musk. Halving the valuation, alienating loyal developers and a core set of users and stifling freedom of information on the internet.

Dark_Blade ,
@Dark_Blade@lemmy.world avatar

lol they’re fucking terrified. Internally, they know they screwed the pooch.

Too bad though, the news is all over the internet.

Peruvian_Skies ,
@Peruvian_Skies@kbin.social avatar

What exactly are Reputation Points and how are they calculated? I've got mostly upvoted comments and a few boosts but I'm sitting at -3 and I'd like to know how it works and what it means.

Pamasich ,
@Pamasich@kbin.social avatar

@Peruvian_Skies

Currently reputation is calculated from boosts and reduces (downvotes). Upvotes are favorites and not counted. This will be changed iirc.

umbraroze ,
@umbraroze@kbin.social avatar

As I recall, Reddit really dragged their heels in implementing GDPR-mandated data checkouts, citing technical challenges and privacy issues, but I'm sure it was more about the technical challenges and laziness (old codebase that has kind of sucked since forever and they're not keen on touching it). This was when the law went into effect in 2018.

I requested archives of my data from Reddit as per GDPR a few weeks ago, and it's still pending. And the page said "oh, uh, we'll provide them within 30 days." ...which is well within the letter of the law, if not the spirit. Other sites I've requested my data from can provide it within days, usually.

All I can say as someone who's been perplexed about Reddit's tech side for a long time is that it's pretty damn emblematic of the whole site.

seacocker ,
@seacocker@lemmy.world avatar

They might not have bothered to implement an automated setup just for EU & UK users, meaning it’s an ad-hoc process each time. If they go over the 1 month you can head over to the ICO website and file a report.

tunetardis ,

A better RSS experience

I've been playing around with RSS views of the fediverse hoping to get something comparable to multireddits, but there is a problem.

First of all, it is possible to get reddit feeds on both kbin and lemmy. The URLs look like:

https://KBIN_INSTANCE/rss?magazine=MAGAZINE_NAME
https://LEMMY_INSTANCE/feeds/c/COMMUNITY_NAME?sort=new

Unfortunately, these are problematic when dealing with instances that are not your home instance. Any links to the post page will be absolute remote instance URLs, which means you cannot interact with the post (e.g. leave a comment). The URL really needs to be made relative to your home instance for that to work, but for the life of me, I cannot figure out how to fix that for a specific post. I can only fix the URL to the magazine/community itself and then hope to locate the post within it again.

If there is a way to get home instance-relative RSS feeds, I'm all ears! Failing that, I might work on a scraper that can take URLs of the form:

https://KBIN_INSTANCE/m/MAGAZINE_NAME@REMOTE_INSTANCE
https://LEMMY_INSTANCE/c/COMMUNITY_NAME@REMOTE_INSTANCE

and generate RSS feeds out of them? But I don't want to reinvent the wheel if something like this is already possible?

It might also be useful to someone trying to write an app with a multireddit-type feature? I will definitely release source if I come up with anything.

EDIT: fixed a typo in URLs

erp ,

I was there when Digg imploded. Then I was there when Reddit imploded. History doesn't always repeat, but it does echo.

xuxebiko ,

One option to reduce interaction with spez-ruled reddit is to use https://reddit.adminforge.de.

Eg: to access r/modcoord, use https://reddit.adminforge.de/r/ModCoord

Any other ideas to deny that greedy little fascist pig boy his joy?

BrikoX ,
@BrikoX@vlemmy.net avatar

lemmit.online is scraping the posts from select subreddits without an API so that will work even after July 1st.

cde ,

If you're nuking your old reddit content, this might be important. For me, the reddit history visible on the website was far less comprehensive than the API could access.

As a 10+ year redditor, I would sometimes go back through my profile and delete stale or irrelevant content. Deciding to try a faster approach this week, I installed Redact (available at redact dot dev, or on the Google Play store). It lets you bulk delete, or preview things first, which I wanted to do in case there was anything worth preserving.

When scanning posts/comments, it first says it's sorting by new, then hot, then controversial.

The "new" results were the same as I could see on my profile, but then the "hot" and "controversial" scans found page after page of comments that I couldn't see on my u/ page. There were 50 results per page, and I didn't keep an accurate count, but I removed at least 1000 comments, mostly from 2013-2018, via the API.

No idea how many people this could help, so it seemed like a worthwhile first post on kbin.

(Also, hello!)

wolfshadowheart ,
@wolfshadowheart@kbin.social avatar

I used the old powerdeletesuite script to edit the comments, it worked for most of them.

anon ,
@anon@kbin.social avatar

I just posted a similar story and a kind soul led me to your post. My story correlates well enough with yours.

jaberwok ,

Recent NPR article on Reddit's IPO -- I strongly suggest you give it a listen. I won't say anything other than I found myself angry enough to provide a bit of feedback and links to evidence refuting some of the worst misrepresentations.

amitsolanki8811 ,

https://www.imitationhub.com/2023/07/ronnie-turners-widow-afida-reveals-plans-to-have-a-baby-using-her-late-husbands-frozen-sperm/

const_void ,

Have you ever seen blatant vote manipulation on Reddit?

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