Reddit Migration

Deleted my 10+ year old reddit account years ago, along with all other social shit. Fun to see everyone else finally catching up :)

Stop giving VC backed companies free data. Please, I beg you all. I know this is preaching to the choir but I just wish more people gave a shit.

It’s bad enough that these companies pay other shitty companies for data dumps on you, but handing it over in absolute dump truck loads yourself for free is stupid.

It’ll never change. Those same shitty companies will just scrape these new communities in due time. I don’t have a point I guess, the world is fucked and the cycle will continue. May as well fight the good fight though.

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I'm trying to migrate / re-create the subreddits I run on Reddit & I'm getting a 429 error during creation.

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This is what Stable Diffusion thinks "leaving reddit" looks like.

Their post announcing it, has comments disabled. I have been going on reddit looking for polls to vote "yes" to continue to participate in the blackout. This was kind of a bummer.

Edit: Looking at the mods most recent post, they're still putting up a fight! And all new posts have 0 upvotes and I can't see comments from RiF anyway. Can anyone else see anything from other reddit apps?

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman said he wants to end user-led protest by instituting a rule that would allow users to vote out moderators who have overseen the protest. NBC News' David Ingram shares the latest.

Goodbye you piece of shit spez and reddit. 15.5 years... I'm done!

Which is why /u/jailbaitlover I mean /u/spez is sending the message that they would gladly give total power to whatever mod crosses the picket line so they can boot the rest.

If Reddit had to replace all these mods it would be complete chaos and is not much better than the blackout. They will see the same exact problems Twitter has seen since they fired most of their content moderators.

I'm in awe, I've moved recently to this multiverse and it's so much more fluent. I can even use post formating in Firefox and both mobile app and mobile browser just work so fast.
Also no more of "sorry something went wrong", "use app", being unable to reply without restarting or slow loading.

I am curious about selling a Reddit account rather than deleting it. Might as well get something from this shit show. Will accounts go up in value after the 1st July? I know nobody has a crystal ball.

I think trying to protest reddit's asshattery via the blackouts is one tactic, but it appears to be losing a lot of steam for many misinformed reasons. I’m betting there’s a lot of shilling as well.

Perhaps the next phase should be to go after Reddit’s investors and advertisers and make it clear to them they are investing and posting ads in a dying community and will lose a ton of money.

In other words, investing in the dying reddit is a quick way to lose money. Investors and advertisers should pull out of reddit ASAP.

Fidelity cut the value of it’s stake in reddit by nearly half earlier this year. It’s likely that reddit’s value is going to tank substantially in the next few months. https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/01/fidelity-reddit-valuation/

Here are some of the investors that have some stake in reddit:

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/reddit/company_financials

I think it needs to be made clear that reddit is absolutely nothing without the community it attracts. The communities are driven by high engagement and good moderators who are all volunteers and work for free

Moderators are unable to work without proper moderation tools. Reddit admins have promised better ones for years and nothing has come to fruition. It’s all lies.

The community is unable to have any sense of engagement if they can’t post or access content due to default website and Reddit app simply being broken and littered with ads that are completely irrelevant to the audience.

Speaking of ads, advertisers should also stop paying for ads because they’re being blatantly mistargeted. Advertisers: You’re wasting A TON of money on ads that will not only not be clicked, but will be straight up blocked.

It’s unlikely reddit will fix these glaring issues since they’ve made that promise for nearly a decade and have only made things substantially worse.

In short, anyone who wants to invest in reddit should invest elsewhere. You WILL lose your money. It’s guaranteed.

I used to browse r/all in RIF after blocking hundreds of subs that I'm not interested in. Is there any way to do something similar here?

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I sent a GDPR data request to reddit days ago but reddit says it can take "up to 30 days" and I have yet to receive my download link. The API is shutting down soon and I really just want to archive my personal data before I purge the account. Is there an easy way to do this?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1290893

I just logged in and checked my reddit account, and all my manually deleted posts have come back.

Another update and possibly a solution for some case where posts were not properly deleted. Seems I jumped the gun on this and the restores haven't been intentional - at least not in this particular case.

There is a limitation in the popular Powerdelete that apparently prevents mass editing. Here is a link to a new version with a build-in delay and some other alternatives:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ModCoord/comments/145fico/comment/jnl4xmr/

There are other reported cases where manually deleted post reappeared or other scripts have been used, so this doesn't solve all issues but explains how posts that were both edited and deleted withPowerdelete weren't properly deleted and reappeared after subs went back live.

Update: As some have pointed out: the restores can be rollbacks from the server issues or post haven't been properly deleted due to subs being private during blackouts. Many have experienced the same issue, I can't explain how this happens. I'll just run the script again, try the GDPR request and delete my account.

Also worth noting: according to the ToS Reddit can actually do whatever they want with existing content, apparently we agreed to this when signing up.

#redditblackout #redditmigration #kbin #lemmy

Can someone do an edit of the infinity war video where all the fighters enter from the portals? But only with the subs that back the reddit blackout.

It cracks me up everytime I look at reddark to see stuff like amateurcumsluts next to animalcrossing and architecture.

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I've read about several tools (e. g. redacted, power delete suite) that delete all your content, so what's the best thing to use? I've also already read that reddit is bringing back deleted content (fuck you spez), so what the best way to prevent this?

Ars spoke with community mods about where Reddit goes from here.

I'm trying to find subreddit alternatives. There's a few subreddit that's in the 5+ million subscriber range that I had assumed must already have an alternative in the fediverse somewhere. But I don't really know how to find them.

I'm happy to create one but Id rather join an existing magazine/community if it already exists. What's the best way to search?

I want to move from reddit, but I don't want to lose all the post I saved over the years, is there an easy way to do that?

👉 https://www.macrumors.com/2023/06/13/reddit-ceo-blackouts-no-revenue-impact/👉 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1668346845142339585https://youtu.be/U06...

Hey everyone, I see a lot of people throwing around the term "enshittification" to describe the long-term and systemic decline of many of the centralized social media platforms, most recently Reddit. I commented this elsewhere, but thought everyone might benefit for reading Cory Doctorow's original article coining the term. The first sentence here sums it up nicely:

"Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die."

I'm a big proponent for tracing and crediting the origins of ideas, and I think this one speaks to a lot of people right now. For all its flaws and occasional user-unfriendliness, I think the main draw of the Fediverse is an escape from this profit-driven cycle.

You can also follow the Mastodon account for Cory's blog @pluralistic (yay federation!).

Most data shown so far looked at the Peak per Minute numbers, so I wanted to see the day data instead.

I took the data from the blackout.photon-reddit site source.

It seems that it makes a Reddit Api call every Minute searching the newest Post and Comment and calculates both per Minute rates.

I wanted to see the effect the Blackout had over the day, so I summed the data and plotted it. Seems like between 11th and 12th June the comments/day diminished by -19.2%. The posts/day saw a decline of -8.9%.

I have also been looking at the Subreddit Stats: Most comments and posts come from r/Askreddit. On 13th June the Sub had 2.4% of the total comments and 0.44% of the total site posts. Sadly I can't see the list of the most commenting and posting subs from reddit before the Blackout because it doesn't seem to work on wayback machine.

But currently it seems like the Top100 commenting Subreddits only make out ~10% (Askreddit: ~1.5%) . So the bulk of the comments happens on the sheer number of other active subreddits.

The subreddit stats site also doesn't show how it gets the data and doesn't make it easy to see historical data overview. During the Blackout there seems to have been post spamming from a now banned german nsfw sub that had even more posts/day than Askreddit