When all the subs went private for the blackout it caused Reddit to crash. Suggests that it's a resource-intensive task for their backend.

Edit: this is hypothetical btw

Looks like Reddit is forcing another sub open, but there are users advocating changing the sub to be about actual steam.

r/piracy post the pure is here .....

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/35555

A fellow mod informed me that about it as I was laying in bed. Reddit sent a message to the mod team and after 1 hour demoded me. I didn't even had time to see it, never-mind respond to it.

Looks like we rattled reddit enough to start shooting. There goes all that fancy talk about our protest not affecting them much.

Just FYI for now. It's late here so I'll see how we proceed tomorrow.

https://youtu.be/JPLbnNDjo5Y

https://web.archive.org/web/20230611210834/https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/146wn9s/meta_who_is_astroturfing_rprogramming_and_why/

Hi, it might be against what most people feel and think right now but I feel that it needs to be said.

I come from rational place even though I currently hate reddit and removed it completely from my devices, but I'm not going to delete my posts or nuke my comments.

Like it or not Reddit is still a huge database for a lot of solutions and great posts and discussions about opinions, reviews, how-to and many many more. Lemmy will take time to keep the pace and be filled with these types of content. And it might might take years to get to it (I really hope it will).

Deleting and nuking posts and comments are only distroy what we and the entire reddit community built over the years and it will be a huge loss for all of us.

If you ask me, the best way to say 'fuck you' to reddit, is keep all the old Content there, try to migrate as much as we can here and from now on build this content here. When/if Lemmy be mature enough we can go back and fuck everything up on reddit.

This is my 2 cents.

I get this error message every single time I tried to delete my account for the past few days. Is spez really banning people from deleting their accounts, or is this just an error on my end somehow? Because if he is... that's just fucked up :/

https://www.wired.com/story/the-reddit-blackout-is-breaking-reddit/

Based on this line:

Like with Twitter, no clear alternative has emerged as a replacement.

I think the author could use some advice in the comment section.

cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/38559

I've been seeing a lot of angst and emotion on the Reddit migration, which results in either defeatism or blind optimism. In the end, it probably doesn't matter, but I wanted to do more fact-based research into the subject.

I put my findings and my analysis into what it would actually take to kill Reddit, based on the deaths of Digg and MySpace. tl;dr it's a lot less dramatic than most people would think.

I'm way too young to remember Digg. I signed up for Reddit in 2015, and I've heard talks here and there about the migration from Digg, but that's it.

*I couldn't figure out where else to post this as I don't have permissions for r/ModCoord and can't figure out where else protestors are organising. *

Reddit's administrators are keen to demonstrate their control over the communities here. As moderators I understand you rely on third party tools - which will soon be removed from you - to do your unpaid labour for the corporation.

Therefore as a protest why not use the first party tools you do have at your disposal and just report all comments and posts that do require moderation to the reddit administrators to handle themselves?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/212576

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.

I just wiped and deleted all my Reddit accounts. Lemmy is my new online home.

Edit: apparently not. See below.

~~I've been following the status of my own reddit profiles since I deleted my contributions on Monday & Tuesday of this week. I used a browser script to download and then edit my comments, and upon a second pass to delete them. I operated primarily on two accounts I still hold.

Today I, like many of you, was surprised to see a lot of my original, unedited comments back on my accounts. After several hours I re-ran the browser edit/delete cycle and upon review found more unedited and undeleted comments, yet no revived posts from the last pass. This piqued my curiousity. If there had been a restore, it seemed incomplete and it missed my submitted content.

My day continued: check in on the profiles, edit and then delete some posts, go outside a minute. I began noticing a pattern, that new crops of zombie posts would occur on both accounts at the same time, and were always from the same subreddits. I would delete them, and they seem to be staying deleted. I have yet to delete any one comment twice that I have noted, and I am looking.

Those are my observations. As to my theory, I think if you manipulated comments of you're on a subreddit while it was locked or restricted, that those changes are cached until the subreddit unlocks. At some point either caches got flushed, changes timed out, or I was getting to my own content before the cache worker did. (For all I know that worker is some poor, unpaid mod-slave). Anyway, I think the cached changes got lost, and the subs reopening reasserted hidden content.

Tl;dr, It amounts to a protocols nuance on the back end. Pitchforks on standby, this isn't the strawman we were looking for.

Epilogue:

B- b- but solidgrue you fucking apologist, why you defend Reddit so???

I'm not trying to defend reddit, egads no. Reddit is doing some shady shit lately on the PR front. While I wouldn't put restoring deleted content past them, they have lawyers who would have pointed out how EXCEPTIONALLY a bad an idea that would have been. There are compelling arguments under GDPR and the US CDA section 230 regarding ownership and "content provider" that discourage this. Rather, I want to acknowledge that we Rexxitors are leaving, and leaving angrily. Reddit's management is already playing the Us vs. Them angle. It'd be an unforced error on our side to run with the Restored Content angle too hard when it's a mundanely reddit infrastructure problem.

We'll need credibility when they drop old.reddit.com, and NSFW content from their mobile app~~

(Edits: sloppy editing)

Edit 2: theory refuted. Standing down. I has asked earlier about pre-blackout edits & deletes but got no answers. Now we know.

for anyone who has been on Reddit for a long time, you've noticed a downturn in the quality of almost everything. With the release of chatbots and the advances in ai, there is a strong likelihood of Reddit becoming just bots talking to bots. What if he has info that it is happening more than we suspected and figures the platform is doomed, and it's time to cash out because no one can stop it? he wouldn't be able to say so.