i have two subreddits, one of them has videos for content and the other one is more based around discussion about the links that get posted, so i realise i might have to do two different processes, and i'm not getting paid sooo ..

i have two priorities. one is to transfer as much content as possible. the other is to take as little effort as possible to do so. i'm not sure which one is higher, but considering that it's saturday night right now the second one is still really important because i'v got a bottle of rum and the sound system is turned on and imma groovin' and don't wanna stop

After weeks of burning through users’ goodwill, Reddit is facing a moderator strike and an exodus of its most important users. It’s the latest example of a social media site making a critical mistake: users aren’t there for the services, they’re there for the community.

A call-to-action for Reddit users to reclaim their digital autonomy

As we've seen in the past week, a large amount of users don't care why subreddits are blacked out or why, they just want their timeline back to normal.

It's understandable, most users just want something to "work" when they want to use it and don't give any thought to what that means. We've already seen mods be replaced, deleted histories come back to life, whatever it takes for Reddit to make it seem "normal" so they don't lose users. Heck, even some of those who have left Reddit may be tempted to go back and read / comment on things they see there, because Reddit obviously isn't going to die overnight. So how do we continue the fight in the current environment Reddit has put us in while still getting a message across the users?

My thought is the following, and I'm putting it here because I think recent migrants are/were more than semi-casual reddittors, and it's clear we've got some development talent out there. I'm a developer as well but I'm looking for:

1. Thoughts on the approach I'm suggesting
2. Thoughts on implementation / usage
3. Overall feelings regarding this in general

The idea

Make browser plugin(s) and / or a website that [knowingly to the user] intercept comment post requests for reddit and stores the post content elsewhere. In its place, all that is submitted to reddit is a link to a website (where people can click to view users intended comment text) along with a blurb about "reddit owning your comment data".

The browser plugin can also find these comments within posts and automatically query and get the raw text and replace it within a reddit page to make viewing these posts easier for everyone.

The idea being that the more users install the extension to easily read these posts, the more users obfuscate their posts so that other users also need the extension to more easily read comments on reddit.

Not only does this protect user data from being owned by Reddit, it makes it so Google searches will not find content on reddit.

Example post before and after:

(Unencrypted, or viewed with the browser extension installed)

(The posted content stored in reddit)

There's my idea. A few thoughts / notes:

• Is this possible? I haven't checked out manifest V3 or made a browser extension in a long time, but with what RES already does I assume this would be doable.
• Is it worth it? Will enough people want to read comments stored in this manner to "join the fight"? Who knows
• Should it store the comment data elsewhere, or just store encrypted text in the reddit comment itself?

Anyway. I know we've got a lot of ex-redditors here, a lot of very talented developers, and a fight still going on that deserves a next step from the users.

Open to any and all thoughts from. This is just a musing on a potential next step - I haven't decided if I'm going to start developing anything yet.

[email protected] /c/[email protected] https://lemmy.world/c/streetwear

I’m having trouble with the difference between threads and microblogs/posts. I keep thinking in terms of Reddit. I know magazines would be what ‘subreddits’ are. Are threads what we see on the front page of a subreddit and but then what are posts? I read the FAQs but still confused.

Anyone able to shed some light? TY!

#RedditMigration

Ok, maybe I’m doing something wrong, and I might have language wrong here, so correct me if I’m way off the mark.

But I can’t figure out how to tell if I’m about to go to a comment section of a posy that’s from a kbin magazine or some other group’s magazine equivalent.

My understanding, as someone using the mobile site:

• I have an account on kbin.social
• Kbin.social is an instance of. . . Something…
• kbin.social is federated with other. . . instances(?) like lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works.
• because of this, we who have accounts on kbin.social can interact with posts from communities/magazines/whatever their equivalent is from Instances(?) that kbin has federated with.
• the home page on kbin.social is the equivalent of Reddit’s r/all
• the home page on kbin.social will show posts from other instances we’re federated with
• presumably there is some way to tell whether the post we’re clicking on is from a community on kbin.social, or a community on a different instance
• with some posts it’s easy, because there’ll be a little (lemmy.world) or similar under the title
• some posts, however, have (kbin.social), and then when I click to go to the comment section, it turns out it’s from sh.itjust.works
• when you click on a post originally from another instance, it shows a warning at the top of the page, that it may be incomplete. The name of the instance is only shown at the bottom of the page, not in the post information.

My questions:

1. is my language right?
2. How can I tell, before clicking on a post, what instance it’s from?
3. assuming that both kbin.social and lemmy.world both have a “books” magazine/community/etc., how can I tell if the post on my home page from “books” is from kbin or lemmy?
4. how do I see a feed of only my subscribed magazines?

Thanks!

Prior to the protest reddit was in full support of the protest. Most polls on subs supported a shutdown. Now, seemingly every community cant understand why the protest was needed and they're calling it a mod power trip. There is a 3rd possibility. This is an unfounded conspiracy but reddit themselves could be manipulating scores.

See the NFL thread if you don't mind sending traffic

https://reddit.com/r/nfl/comments/14b11kh/were_just_here_so_we_dont_get_fined/

Obligatory just came from reddit post :P So heres a bad photoshop I did.

#RedditMigration

“The blackouts are not representative of the greater Reddit community.”

Attached: 1 image Well, at least Reddit has admitted their "we're not trying to be like Twitter/Elon" stuff was false

Archive Link: https://archive.is/lEePE

The top mod of r/piracy has been removed by the admins and the subreddit will reopen.

While most of the people here upset and rightfully so, we have got to move past the angst to actually build this place out.

We have to recreate the environment and communities we've created on on Reddit here, so that people don't feel like they're missing out being on kbin.

That way, the next time Spez goes full Elon, we already have everything in place to make the jump.

I help run r/MMA on Reddit. We aggregate news as well as bringing on MMA figures for AMAs.

We, like many other magazines here, will need a way to quickly aggregate breaking news onto our magazine, and the easiest way to do that is going to be through a bot that mirrors submissions to our subreddit.

At least for the mags that rely on breaking news, if we implement this at scale, the end user wont be missing much by migrating over here if they get all the same great breaking news.

Do we have any bot builders in the house who could take this on as a project?

We would be leveraging Reddit's own userbase at scale to better kbin, and eventually beat them in the long run. That's the biggest L we could ever deal them.

EDIT: WASN'T SURE THIS WAS GONNA BLOW UP. IVE MADE https://kbin.social/m/BotIt FOR DEVELOPMENT. IF YOU'RE INTERESTED AND CAN HELP OR JUST WANT TO FOLLOW THE PROJECT, COME ON OVER. THANKS.

Steve Huffman said in an interview that Elon Musk's cost-cutting at Twitter was inspiring and that the two have chatted "a handful of times."

You can tell the landscape is seriously shifting at reddit because of the drastic change in user opinion just in the last week. Subreddits that were overwhelmingly in favor of the blackout last week have suddenly shifted to seem drastically against it. Is this a sign anyone actually changed their minds? No, it's just the opposite: most of us dissenters packed up our shit and left.

I'm disappointed in some of the specific game subs I've been a part of staying open in the name of "but the community and resources are all established here" (#Rimworld) or those who aren't even talking about it (#GenshinImpact, #TearsOfThemis). I'd really like to create some of these over here to get the ball rolling, but I know moderation is not a task to be underestimated; I KNOW I don't really have a suitable personality for it, plus I have my hands full with other projects.

#RedditMigration

Reddit can restore your deleted posts. However, if people flood them with GDPR / CCPA delete requests, they may become liable for lawsuits if they don't comply.

It sounds like their current policy is to not delete your posts even when deleting your account, but there may be grounds for legal action here.

I've been thinking about this today..

If there's a divide among people who want to still use Reddit and others who want to try out the Fediverse (Kbin, Lemmy, etc), I believe it may be a good idea if we had a bot that could mimic at least the posts (and maybe later even the comments) on subreddits that people are missing out here in the Fediverse. This can at least help populate the emptier communities that are here on the Fediverse and incentivize people to remain here without the fear of FOMO (myself included).

Is there any existing solution that could provide the necessary functionality? How feasible would this be if someone would start working on this now, considering the Reddit API changes?

If you're like me, you have a habit of typing reddit.com whenever you have some time to kill at a computer.

Kicking habits takes time, so as you develop a new habit of typing kbin.social (or lemmy.world or whatever the case may be), consider a browser extension that blocks or redirects traffic from reddit to your desired new social media destination.

For Firefox, I have found these to be helpful over the last week:

• Block Site
• Redirector

I know Spaz is the adam mod but still under our rules, he should never be allowed to post anything in the website ever again. He broke the number 1 rule in Reddit and many subreddits for mods. He can post whatever he likes in his official place but never in other subreddits. Everyone knows how annoying automod can become, it should be possible to do it or enough to annoyed him.

Is there a way to sort threads by top comments? 'Hot' doesn't seem to work for me.

#RedditMigration

Written by DrNeurohax

"Some Thoughts on Ways Mods Can Stay in Malicious Compliance, in Order To Prolong the Protest and Their Removal by Admins.

r/funny should be proud. They sat in the crosshairs for longer than anyone thought they would. I hope they, and all the other subs pressured into going restricted or public, continue to show their support in some unique way. Some ideas:

• Include kbin/lemmy equivalent magazines in the banner and a sticky post. Sticky an autocomment on every post with fediverse info.

• Only use the standard mod tools and halve your time commitment. "We went back to using the tools they gave us and this is how it will be from now on. Welcome to the new Reddit you guys chose by not supporting the blackout!"

• Mark the sub NSFW. Realistically, there's rarely a reason anyone in an office should be on Reddit. This should also make the sub unavailable for mobile users when the API changes go into effect.

• Make every day April Fool's Day. Like when r/DataIsBeautiful posted nothing but pics of Star Trek's Data. If you have no ideas, just google the sub name and see what you find!

• • PIC is also:
• • • a type of long catheter that is inserted through a peripheral vein, often in the arm, into a larger vein in the body, used when intravenous treatment is required over a long period. Seems like an important topic for r/Pics to cover. (Dictionary.com)
• • • Slang abbreviation for Partner In Crime, so maybe change focus to famous crime duos (Urban Dictionary)
• • • Slang for a movie, so become the movie subreddit (Encyclopedia Britannica)
• • Just go nuts with https://www.abbreviations.com/pic

• Set unreasonable posting requirements without an announcement, but noting the change in the side bar. Gotta read the fine print."

Set posts to require moderator approval.

• Approve 1 post every hour or only approve really poor quality ones.

Fracture the community.

• Announce alternative subs for your topic, which you also control, and encourage unsubbing from the original sub. Do some of the above, while also setting the sub to require accounts be subscribed for a month to post. Those that leave will find nothing in the alt subs, which they can't post to, and be unable to post on the main sub for a month. Also, fracturing the large subs will reduce traffic overall, due to the chaos.

• Remove and replace scrub mods where possible. If you get booted down the line, another supporter can continue the pattern.

• Forward any post remotely related to a product advertised on Reddit to that company's media contact for approval. Advertisers should know what is being associated with their brands. (And if some really gnarly stuff gets submitted by some non-mod account, it might be more impactful."

We must fight back. Spread the word.

#reddit #boycottreddit

Hello all. Also new and arriving from Reddit. What a mess it is over there!

#RedditMigration

TayTay's post asking for Reddit admins to respond to his report about being demodded unfairly

TayTay getting PERMA-SUSPENDED for "harassments" in response!!

#reddit #protest #boycottreddit