sometimes the only winning move is not to play
Yep, stop moderating and move platforms. Easy-peasy
fuckin matthew brodderick ovah hereeeeee
How about a nice game of chess
Global thermal nuclear war
Sounds like something you would do if you were about to remove a very popular feature like old reddit in the coming months.
Yeah… something big must be coming and they’re gearing up for it.
Old.reddit is definitely on the chopping block and this is the precursor
It provides limited API functionality still and it avoids the shit ad filled new reddit page
Anything but old.reddit is beyond shit.
Whelp… expect to not be having it in the near future cause that’s next to go
“communities should honor the expectations they set”
Oh, really?
Too bad Reddit executives don’t feel that way about their own website.
pretty sure thats what they meant
The only site wide protest that counts is not to use it
It’s what I did and I haven’t missed it
I miss it. It has subs for everything: niche hobbies, small video games, IRL games, etc.
Still not worth going back.
Same. This is why I hope Reddit continues to get worse. I want another exodus, and I want my niche communities back…
Still not going back tho.
I mean, sure, sometimes it’s unavoidable as a resource because it contains years of info but I don’t really miss the social aspects of it at all. As reddit slowly has become worse and worse I’ve just realised social media isn’t really that useful to me. I do hang out on Lemmy and can’t say that I don’t enjoy it but I don’t keep up actively on any social platform anymore.
And delete your posts and comments.
They’ve done a lot to neuter that.
Not sure on the technicals but lots of rate limiting to prevent PDS from being able to get everything and outright shenanigans to make posts not appear in the old view which also prevents PDS from deleting them. Not to mention un-deleting comments after a while (even if you use the option to edit before deleting).
So run it early and run it often. And then just delete the account for the rest.
Some users have seen their deleted content return later. So yes you should try but don’t assume it will be permanent
Can confirm! I’ve run that exact utility multiple times. Each time it finds a few posts that were restored.
But it’s like 99.5% effective in deleting posts. So it’s better than nothing.
I’ve checked a few times, and I’ve had a few posts show up after I thought I got them all. I think what is going on is that the delete script can’t get posts that are on hidden subreddits that you aren’t subscribed to. So when people are done protesting or whatever and they set the subreddit to public the posts come back.
A dev here. Not a reddit dev, but a dev. Deleting thing online doesn’t necessarily mean real deletion of the content. For instance, every post and comment is a row of a “big notebook” (a table on a database) and every row is split by columns for specific data: who’s the author, where it was posted (which community), what’s the content and, sometimes, a yes/no column called “is it deleted?”. When you delete such post, you are writing a “yes” inside that column, without actually replacing the content. It’s an oversimplified explanation of how platforms register posts, sometimes there’s a “version” table (think of it as multiple notebooks keeping track of different things simultaneously) that will keep the different versions of an edited post/comment, so they will remain intact inside such table.
Tl;dr: once on the internet, always on the internet (unfortunately). Especially if we’re dealing with a corporation that profits over user’s data. Rare cases where a thing on the internet finds real oblivion.
They already have your comments. Deleting your comments only harms future users who are looking for whatever information you shared.
So hopefully if you deleted any informative comments you moved them elsewhere, right?
This doesn’t make sense. What value do your comments have to reddit if they aren’t presented to users? Harming these future users is how you harm reddit.
Did you actually read my comment?
Might be better to replace old posts with links to the fediverse. Or since those are probably filtered “Google search ‘Reddit alternatives’ and look for the mouse…” or some shit like that.
Would do so but they bring back allot of posts, and besides I deleted my account. I couldn’t take them making it more and more difficult for me to do what I enjoyed on the site.
Enshitificication of Reddit continues!
The beatings will continue until community morale increases… and of course: profits.
Every day the Fediverse just gets that much better than r*ddit
I wonder what they are planning that they think will piss everyone off.
Old.reddit being “sunset.”
Don’t use Reddit unless you lick boots
The funny thing is this will do absolutely nothing to prevent a sitewide protest. There are so many ways for mods to effectively destroy a subreddit or redirect it while remaining public.
In fact, and this is the important blindness that Reddit continues to have, the mods usually need to work hard daily just to keep a sub usable. Reddit is so dismissive of that effort and so brazenly presumes upon their volunteer labor that they seem to think subs just continue on sheer momentum, if only they could stop mods from sabotaging them.
Mod posts every day pointing to a new community at Lemmy or elsewhere, stopping using bot removal tools, stopping troll culling, marking NSFW, etc will do the job.
There are so many ways for mods to effectively destroy a subreddit or redirect it while remaining public.
custom subreddit CSS: black text on black background
They’ll scrap old.reddit.com to avoid that.
subreddit CSS doesn’t work on new reddit? lol I had no idea
but if they scrap old.reddit then I see a nice big wave of new Lemmy users coming, and we’re much more ready for it this time
Well they don’t want to hurt the feelings of the nazis they protect. Keep reminding them that 400 thousand Americans died in WW2 to give us the right to punch nazis in the face.
bots are gonna be very disappointed
stop using it
Ok, done. Now what?
nothing else, you are already winning
I wonder how it’s going for Reddit? I expect they are still huge.
dunno, for 16 months now, the only time I went there was after a google search and the answer was in a reddit thread… There is 15+ years of answers to various obscur topics and all, “unfortunately”
They’re starting to get stale though. Sometimes yes, there will be a 15+ years old thread that’s still relevant, but there will also be so many cases that the latest post is 2+ years old and no longer applicable or outdated.
The biggest problem they have I think is that it’s all bots, everywhere
It’s surely beyond 50% at this point.
And the newer threads (from the last 1-2 years) often just aren’t that helpful. Lots of people who don’t know what they’re talking about, or comment just to say they have the same problem.
I can usually get a helpful answer by trying a couple search engines or just fighting with Google, but it takes longer than it should sometimes.
They could just setup auto moderator rules to bury all new posts
