Reddit Migration

Used the site for longer than I care to admit, joined the protest, and when I went back after the blackout I kinda realised I don't really belong there any more given the nature of gaslighting the current management is engaged in. So I nuked and paved.

Here's hoping the Threadiverse goes to the moon! 🚀

Given today's revelations with Reddit's CEO and his sense of entitlement, I think there is a serious risk of losing our ability to bulk-change the text of our posts before removing our accounts, so I'd like to do this sooner than later.

Mine is a 9+ year account with a LOT of comments, so I want to make each one count.

In my text, I would like to mention:

• what the fediverse is
• what potential I believe it has over reddit
• a link for people to browse various KBin instances, and another for Lemmy (which links should I use?)

For the comment section below:

1. What text did you choose to replace your reddit posts with?
2. What tool did you use to do it? (How was the experience?)
3. What do you think about merely abandoning the account rather than deleting it so that reddit might be forced to remove it themselves? (I really don't mind deleting it at this point either, just looking for thoughts.)
4. Feel free to contribute any other thoughts related to the topic.

Thank you.

I saw this posted to Hacker News just now. Looks like it might be the start of something useful. I assume that one can suggest additions (or other edits) by emailing the curator using the address on the upper right of the page.

/kbin and lemmy might be not perfect yet, but I am glad that I am here and not on Reddit.

I miss that i could google something, write reddit in the end and the results would be honest and not ads or trash

I really miss chatrooms in general, and I thought we were due for a comeback for the year or two reddit was running them, what with the userbase they have.

“The blackouts are not representative of the greater Reddit community.” Or so he says. Also:

Q: So you’re saying that Apollo, RIF, Sync, they don’t add value to Reddit?

A: Not as much as they take. No way.

Does anyone know how you go about making a new post in a magazine here on kbin? (Sorry for the dumb noob question, mods, please move / delete this if this isn't the right place for this!)

#RedditMigration

This was a really hard decision for me but I purged all my posts, votes and comments via Shreddit. I then deleted all my accounts. I've been on Reddit since it was just a baby website. I love Reddit, the friends and the communities I was involved in changed my life for the better.

We'll see how it goes but the only way we are going to win this fight is to walk away from Reddit. We have to send a message to them and the only way to do that is to hit them where it really hurts, right in the wallet.

Change is a good thing and I am ready to embrace it. I'm all in on kbin now. Let's see where we go from here 🍻

Are there any communities you've not yet seen on kbin that you used to visit on Reddit?

Edit: So a lot of people don't know this, you can search for magazines on kbin here - https://kbin.social/magazines

I know all the #fediverse can work together and talk to each other, but inasmuch as it matters, I'm rooting for #kbin to come out on top of the #RedditMigration. I really like the blend of the thread interface for more formal, large-scale engagement threads, with the microblogging tab for more casual posts. It just makes sense to put them together. This is neat.

Edit: I wonder if people are having trouble viewing replies on others' posts? I've gotten so many that restate the same idea.

#RedditMigration

“We are not... unilaterally reopening communities.”

The first link was through MSN, my bad. Here's the link directly from The Verge.

It’s almost like he wants to piss people off. Calling moderators running his site for free and upset ally what’s happening “landed gentry”?!

Thousands of subreddits are still dark.

If you didn't know, on DuckDuckGo you can search for posts or magazines with site:kbin.social just like you would with Reddit. The same applies to any other Fediverse site like Kbin, Lemmy, Mastodon, etc.. I was really frustrated because it seems like Google was intentionally suppressing them.

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Is there an equivalent to r/all on kbin? I am enjoying the site but I am not finding a way to satisfy my urge to doom scroll aimlessly.

#RedditMigration

The similarities are amazing, especially considering Reddit was one of the succesors of Digg. They can now enable other successors by making stupid decissions and alienating core users.

I wonder if this speaks to the unsustainability of platforms like these, or the cycle can be broken by making good decissions.

There are posts/comments over on r/redditalternatives about users using shreddit or other services to delete all of their posts/comments, only to find out they've been readded a day or so later.

I have not gone through this process yet (though I intend to - I just want to be sure all the posts I've "saved" will be saved also, not just the post/comment history - I bookmarked a lot of interesting stuff!), So I can't speak to personal experience. Not sure if it's due to the users deleting the content but not their account, or if the admins really are going in and just adding all the stuff back in so to not lose the content and searchability.

Just a note to check on your content that you wiped to make sure it's gone. There are multiple anecdotes of people erasing their data 3x and it keeps coming back.

Edit: examples in this post

That Reddit will not shut down. It will take the hit and go on and probably make at least some money. Only, it will be a much different place, more like Facebook or Instagram, in that it will be full of ads and less specific information.
It will cease to be a different, often niche space and become just another, more generalized social for a more generalized public.

In short: we, aka the people who migrated, simply are not their intended target anymore.

On the subject, I found @gonzo0815 's post very interesting and more detailed than my summary😅 (link https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/25185/A-few-thoughts-about-the-blackout-and-the-future-development)

Let's not poison ourself, thinking on "how to make them pay". Let's move on, and enjoy the new internet spaces we are building!

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