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Reddit Migration

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### About Community Tracking and helping #redditmigration to Kbin and the Fediverse. Say hello to the decentralized and open future. To see latest reeddit blackout info, see here: https://reddark.untone.uk/

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The reddit blackout is even more effectivte than expected! 5177/8829 (~60%) of subreddits are still dark [1] and the posts per minute are down to 1000 from 1400 [2].

This is huge. Subreddits were supposed to be back up yesterday. I personally missed Reddit the first day but now I am super comfortable here.

Glad to have found a new place to hang out!

Edit: Reddit has 100k subs, 60% out of those who officially signed up


[1] https://reddark.untone.uk/

[2] https://www-heise-de.translate.goog/news/Reddit-Blackout-dauert-an-30-Prozent-weniger-Aktivitaet-Werbebranche-wartet-ab-9189048.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.rdf.beitrag.beitrag&_x_tr_sl=de&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

True punishment would be active, content rich posters zeroing out their posts and comment history. By doing so, the Google searches - which currently refer a ton of traffic to the site - will start to fade. The body of knowledge- users knowledge, not Reddit’s- is what drives new traffic to the site. I plan to remove my contributions later this month, presuming nothing changes.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

15 year redditor, though only with ~250k karma. Scrubbed the crap out of my account. I'll probably still use reddit on desktop for as long as old.reddit exists, but for mobile I'm definitely trying out alternatives.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

How do I give Reddit gold? Hopefully this works🥈

In all seriousness "this is the way"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I've been on Reddit for 13 years, and I'm hesitant to remove everything, in case I want to revisit some of my old posts/comments. Is there a way to archive your own content?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yes this is the way to do it. It includes everything on your account even if you've clicked Delete on it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I left Reddit but didn't scrub any posts. Seemed a bit like cutting off your nose to spite your face. Although I do understand why others thought otherwise.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Huffman has recently made it clear that he wants to monetize user data, so I think that's a good reason to delete it, imho. I can still understand leaving it up as a courtesy to other users, but deleting all your content is a valid action imho.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Power Delete Suite will offer the option of backing your stuff up locally.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I used Power Delete Suite to back up and delete my content. Note that there seems to be a bug in the archive export process though. I had to follow the advice on this issue to pull my full CSV backup.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just had a go with Power Delete Suite, but the export is kind of minimal, so I think I'll roll my own with the API, while the clock ticks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah PDS is a good start but has some issues, if you're comfortable with the API you'll probably do better there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Why not sooner then later, holding out gives reddit hope.

There are a few useful extensions and browser plugins that help automate editing your past comment history and posts to be blank, the same tool then deletes the post and comment for you.

Don't leave anything behind IMO. I know I did not.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

/r/DataHoarder was encouraging that last I checked.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Man, you know it's bad when even a sub based on data preservation is saying, "Nuke it"

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wonder if they moved here too. Would be nice, really enjoyed being part of that community.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It's a pitty there aren't many (any?) subreddits that are "officially" endorsing a specific community in lemmy (or magazine in kbin) for migration.