Reddit

I have nothing against hobbyists moderating their tiny little corners but the vast majority of Reddit isn't it. Reddit demands more and more income out of the heaps of unpaid labour they've been thriving off of with little respect for the people who got them where they are. For me an ideal outcome would be Reddit paying for moderation of all subreddits of any notable size (unless they're corpo-owned too - then it's up to them). I would be over the moon if this turned into people questioning why Reddit is dictating things like this while profiting from unpaid moderators (if you get someone's labour worth AND don't even pay them that's an absolutely insane profit).

I personally deleted my account and don't even browse unless I need to for work. I'm happy to see people still deleting their content and deleting their accounts.

Reddit has been taking from their community and in spite of having the insane set up where they don't even have to pay for the moderation they push against the comfort of the community. It's time they pay. Literally.

Here's a link to their post: https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/14b2a6q

This is the first time I'm hearing about the bad actors part, and a quick search returned nothing. Anyone know what they're talking about?

Thanks to everyone who suggested editing the comments before deleting them, but I decided to just go through the last 3 years of comments and edit them instead (yay, macros).

I could only go back 3 years on the comments in RES, and I'm pretty sure comments to subs that are currently private weren't shown. I was actually looking for a specific comment to archive, but r/TheOrville is private and none of my posts/comments were visible.

The one toward the bottom with 761 points on the post titled "What's the worst adult tempter tantrum you've ever seen or heard about?" was a really good story, too. Maybe I'll share it here, sometime.

This is just hilarious.

r/pics, gifs, among others are voting on whether to return to normal operation. As lots of people supporting the black out aren't using Reddit at the moment the voting is currently going in favour of returning to normal

“If a moderator team unanimously decides to stop moderating, we will invite new, active moderators to keep these spaces open and accessible to users. If there is no consensus, but at least one mod who wants to keep the community going, we will respect their decisions and remove those who no longer want to moderate from the mod team.”

I am increasingly fed up with Reddit's attitude towards this whole thing. What's the best way to delete all my posts and comments? I have very few posts so those are easy to delete by hand, but I must have thousands of comments in various subreddits and it'd be a pain in the ass to delete them one by one. Is there a tool that makes this easier?

I was actually somewhat ok with going back to certain Reddit communities (although NOT just mindless scrolling) after the blackout. There's a lot of communities where (I thought) there's literally no alternatives.

Then came his latest wave of interviews attacking people that did their jobs for them (mods, Devs making a usable mobile app) and making insane hypocritical statements about "democracy" (everyone would gladly kick you out given the chance) and "landed gentry" (dude, if the mods are the out of touch landed gentry, that would make you the out of touch king, right?)

Why is he still giving interviews? Not like I even care about the company but seriously what good can he possibly do at this point, every day thousands more people leave for good.

Anyway, I seriously don't think I can use Reddit with a clear conscience, at all, anymore, at least for now. Every time I interact with the site (even with adblock) I can't help but think the entire time I am helping this millionaire megalomaniac's company keep continuing on.

I guess there's always the chance the board is letting him self destruct to offer him as the sacrificial lamb.

I honestly don't know if this will last in terms of me not using reddit at all, but every day this idiot opens his mouth is another day I'm not using reddit and another day I'm searching for and interacting with alternatives.

This is going to be a marathon. Not a sprint. It'll take multiple years and many Lemmy improvements to kill Reddit.

What we can do however is raise awareness and even if things are slow and from time to time we have to use reddit for whatever reason, we might want to foster a soft pledge, commitment or intention of not posting any new content on reddit.

It does not matter if Reddit has millions of users if the actual content creators and skilled moderators are dropping off.

should we call for migration across reddit subs to come to lemmy? the same way we once did for digg users to go to reddit?

Hi all! What's your opinion? Let's pretend reddit would give in to the protest and cancel the plan to increase the API pricing. Would all of you go back to Reddit or stay on Lemmy?

I mean.. what has been said by the CEO cannot be unsaid now. We all now know what we are in the eyes of the CEO.

A lot of people don't know this, but you can subscribe to subreddits using RSS by simply adding .rss at the end of the URL, e.g: https://reddit.com/r/socialism.rss and then you can add the feed to your favorite RSS reader. For example, there's a great add on for Firefox and an Android app.

As far as I know, RSS feeds aren't affected by the API changes. So if you use Reddit to catch up on the news, this is a great way to do that.

The script has been updated a few times. It now has new features. You should check it out again, even if you already have.

exactly what is says on the can. put in the multireddit URL of all your subs (explained in script), get a list of lemmy communities of the same name.

It looks like they're undeleting posts which means you won't be able to go back and delete them again if your account is gone. I checked today and about 30% of my deleted posts were back.

Reddit will profit off your past content if it stays up in its current form. As an alternative to deleting, I've seen people suggesting editing your old text posts to be gibberish so that it will screw with the AI models that scour Reddit.

I don't see how politely suggesting what a racist should do with their time is "threatening violence," but even if it were, we should at least both have received warnings.

If data protection lawyers and those with deep knowledge could chime in, even better how GDPR handles these situations.

There are more and more reports coming in that reddit is undeleting comments.

https://mstdn.social/@hkrn/110553743836119207 https://tane.codes/@tanepiper/110553809293213303 https://mastodon.social/@ashe__/110553872844888220

Apart from the disastrous breach of trust it becomes actually physically dangerous for the users. As this comment https://kbin.social/m/reddit/p/448164/-/reply/779118 claims a 7 year old deleted post has been restored. It could expose deadnames pre-transition, it could have restored erroneously posted content with private information of addresses, passwords and other confidential information.

What is the future legal course to take against this? What steps to take as an affected user, how to actually delete history and is compensation possible especially for these critical incidents?

And how does Lemmy deal with deletion? Because the content gets mirrored between servers I see deletion as problematic, but would at least the biggest federation respect the users request?