Reddit Migration

Attached: 1 image Updated Apollo to give it that Tweetbot treatment 🤝

Thank you to everyone who offered advice in my "where do I host this" thread. I appreciate the insight and it absolutely helped me narrow down how and what to look for.

So, I've selected a host... and now I have to configure everything. I have root access, a solid VPS, and... well, I need the time to do it, but I should be able to find a moment or two!

Any tips, tricks, Items of Grave Concern?

Just to let you know we also have "woahdude". Thanks

Some users wonder if the dev will be charged for having it still up, others argue Reddit can't charge him without having signed a contract. Everyone is confused as to why the API change hasn't made it inoperable.

Why is Boost still working?

someone on reddit made some secret subreddits for certain acievements:

• controversial club - one of the most controvertial posts on reddit within an hour
• popular club - top 25 posts on reddit of the day
• eternity club - popular club clone
• ternion club - popular club but you also got ternion

etc...

why they exist? who knows, but i guess they are no longer secrets

Mods, please let me know if this is not allowed. I’ll remove it.

With what’s happening at Twitter and the mess that’s going on right now, I feel that we need to migrate all the users over to the fediverse. I still don’t understand why anyone would still be using Twitter today but we need to get them out as soon as possible and stop supporting Elon. I think what he’s doing is ridiculous and it’s just a matter of time before he runs Twitter into the ground.

As the title says, Reddit replied to my GDPR request to delete all my data saying I had to do it first, which I suspect is in violation of GDPR law.

Reddit's argument is that to comply with GDPR, they just need to dossociate your account from your posts, so the latter cannot be traced back to you. However, the argument could be made that the posts themselves are enough data to be linked to you.

Is there any type of response that could be framed in legal terms to make reddit really remove all the content from my account?

Ernest just posted some comments clarifying recent changes to Votes, Boosts, Favorites, and Reputation Points.

Post is here

“It does mean you’ll need to pay more attention.”

It’s honestly really sad what’s been happening recently. Reddit with the API pricing on 3rd party apps, Discord with the new username change, Twitter with the rate limits, and Twitch with their new advertising rules (although that has been reverted because of backlash). Why does it seem like every company is collectively on a common mission of destroying themselves in the past few months?

I know the common answer is something around the lines of “because companies only care about making money”, but I still don’t get why it seems like all these social media companies have suddenly agreed to screw themselves during pretty much the period of March-June. One that sticks out to me especially is Reddit CEO, Huffman’s comment (u/spez), “We’ll continue to be profit-driven until profits arrive”. Like reading this literally pisses me off on so many levels. I wouldn’t even have to understand the context behind his comment to say, “I am DONE with you, and I am leaving your site”.

Why is it like this? Does everyone feel the same way? I’m not sure if it’s just me but everything seems to be going downhill these days. I really do hope there is a solution out of this mess.

Just uninstalled Relay and from now will rely on libreddit and old.reddit for feeds from the Snoo Platform.

#RedditMigration

I've heard a few people say that they don't use reddit apps anymore and only access reddit via old.reddit. Could someone explain to me how that resolves the "morality issue"? Isn't that still traffic and aren't they still getting money? Is it less money somehow?

#RedditMigration

All 6000-ish of it lol. I'd been registered user for close on five years and I only made use of it for a couple more before that. But boy did Reddit help me out in a variety of ways small and big. And helped me waste time. Some would say too much time. Some would be right.

I deleted my content two and a half weeks ago in one big, automated purge and I've been waiting and watching and stamping out the occasional zombie content reappearing from the dead. I haven't seen any in a couple of days and today is a good day to die. This was much sadder than axing Twitter or Facebook (Freedom! Horrible, horrible freedom!)

I don't know how my experience with kbin will shake out, but I'm honestly looking forward to trying to contribute more and be more thoughtful, careful, interesting, in whatever ways that I can. That's the intention I'm starting with.

Alas, poor Reddit, I knew ye well-ish? It was a tough choice.

Any surge in kbin or lemmy signups?
I'd check myself, but don't know there to look. We might not see much change until Tuesday when the long weekend is over.

#RedditMigration

Why does rif still work for me? Anyone know what's going on? I got the 429 this morning but now it's working exactly as before.

#RedditMigration

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/925265

I've been working on a new Lemmy client for iOS and Android and will be looking for testers in the coming weeks. I'll be starting with iOS and then later rolling out to Android.

Features (so far) include:

• Compact and card views
• Multi-account support
• Gestures
• Nested/Threaded comments
• Themes

Let me know some of your favourite features of other Lemmy / Reddit apps that you liked that I may not have thought of!

Please follow the link if you're interested in testing. Here are some screenshots of the app so far and you can check out my thread on its development on Mastodon.

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https://tanza.hubza.co.uk/kbinfamiliarity.png
Hi! I joined kbin a few days ago, and found it hard to get used to the new UI, so I made a theme which replicates old Reddit as closely as I can!

To install the theme, you first have to install the Stylus browser addon, then you can install the theme here!

I also highly recommend using the Kbin Usability Pack as well, it adds alot of very helpful things! To be clear I didn't make this.

I hope people find this theme helpful! Please report any bugs by just responding to this... article? or making an issue on the github!

This is honestly probably for the best. It's a really bad idea that we've let reddit monopolize niche knowledge

For those that dont want to look at the link:

"effective immediately, we plan to discontinue the following activities:

1. Active solicitation of celebrities or high profile figures to do AMAs.

2. Email and modmail coordination with celebrities and high profile figures and their PR teams to facilitate, educate, and operate AMAs. (We will still be available to answer questions about posting, though response time may vary).

3. Running and maintaining a website for scheduling of AMAs with pre-verification and proof, as well as social media promotion.

4. Maintaining a current up-to-date sidebar calendar of scheduled AMAs, with schedule reminders for users.

5. Sister subreddits with categorized cross-posts for easy following.

6. Moderator confidential verification for AMAs.

7. Running various bots, including automatic flairing of live posts"

I feel this was Reddit biggest sub, and probably the most prestigious. Wonder what the effect will be on reddit overall and if reddit will replace the mods.

Curious about if there is any discernable difference anyone can see if they may have popped in to Reddit today? I know it's probably naive to think there would be a big difference first day.
I deleted rif and never even used other apps or desktop site so I won't be going back, hense the question to those that are accessing the site.

Reddit shockingly restored all the comments I deleted via PowerDelete Suite a while ago. If Reddit will do their damnedest to keep my content against my will, I'll do what I can to still change it and protest.

I'm taking that as a chance to instead replace most of my non-useful comments via the same tool with the following open letter. That way in the future if anyone comes across my content, rather than see a (deleted) or a suddenly empty post which could be unhelpful and frustrating, maybe the message I leave will provide some context and information for future Reddit visitors considering to use that platform (or stumbling across my posts via Google searches). So feel free to use this template too. I think a bunch of us leaving behind something for future Internet historians would be helpful at least until Reddit stops being a thing completely a la Digg.

"I removed most of my Reddit contents in protest of the API changes commencing from July 1st, 2023. This is one of those comments.

This decision has widespread implications such as making it more difficult for moderators to manage their subreddits, more likely for spam to enter subreddits, more difficult for blind users to access Reddit, more difficult for anyone to see NSFW content and many other negative consequences. Most third party applications are now gone due to the extortionate new pricing being unaffordable for developers despite widespread outrage from the community.

CEO Steve Huffman's awful leadership through the lackluster AMA and a press junket tour aggressively defending the situation insisting nothing will be changed, saying he'll modify the moderator rules to kick out protesters and force subreddits to reopen, demonstrates humongous contempt for the Reddit community that makes and manages Reddit's entire content library in the first place. Accusing a developer of blackmail and then completely ignoring all post pointing out how this is a lie with evidence - alongside other lies related to the API - is wild too.

I'm now using alternative community platforms like Kbin and Lemmy. Reddit's revenue comes from my posts. If that is how they wish to treat our community, they don't deserve my content any more.

This could have been easily avoided if Reddit chose to negotiate the API changes with their moderators, third party developers and the community their entire company is build around into a more reasonable middle ground. They have not.

RIP Reddit 2005-2023. You were Digg 5.0. So long and thanks for all the fish."

Gaming, news, tech, general literature. All of these are somewhat thriving, with a steady influx of posts and comments. At the same time, the userbase is sorely lacking for more niche communities. In my case it'd be stuff like poetry, yoga, religion, linguistics, meditation. Or many other communities I'd doubt they'd form a larger userbase here, at least to the degree that it'd foster good discussions. Communities where there are a larger amount of "normal people", that are not tech-aware, and who have no interest in migrating off centralized corporate solutions. That just want a large space to discuss what they're interested in.

This for me at least, makes it hard to completely leave reddit (or even Facebook and their groups!). Do you think the fediverse will ever reach the point where this would become a non-issue?

Find your next diving spot. A list of subreddit alternatives on different platforms.