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[–] dope@beehaw.org 66 points 1 year ago (5 children)

To anyone still on Reddit and/or moderates a sub, I would recommend deleting all of your content. Reddit is going to continue making money off of whatever you post, even if it's helpful. If you're worried about preservation, submit your content through an archiver. Don't let them continue to make money off of you when you are not valued. Down with corporate overlords.

[–] fear@kbin.social 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

There are reports of them already restoring deleted content, too. They have zero respect for their users' autonomy.

Edit: Someone started a thread about it here

[–] lamentforicarus@beehaw.org 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Just checked my account and all of my posts and comments are back. :[

[–] Rising5315@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No way. Can anyone else confirm of their old user data is back? This is a huge low by Reddit

[–] pieceofcrazy@feddit.it 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think this is also, like, illegal? At least I the EU

[–] deephurting@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago

Make sure the press hears about this. We're still ranting about spez editing comments years after the fact; not only disobeying a user's wishes, but violating the law?. That's a whole other kettle of fish.

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[–] insomniac_lemon@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not sure if it's what happened, but remember that content in private subreddits isn't on your profile and thus cannot be deleted.

When it opens back up, your content will now appear on your profile. (Run it again as-needed)

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[–] saplyng@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You could try editing all the posts/comments instead - even possibly doing it a few times. I doubt whatever intern they got to start undeleting user data is going to be very thorough and won't look through several edits

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[–] coin@asimon.org 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@fear @dope @generalEdo Are they even allowed to do that with the GDPR protecting EU citizens? :think:

[–] RepairUnit3k6@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

GDPR protects personal information like age, name, nationality, face or likness. Sadly it dosent protects content as far as I know. However if I'm mistaken I'm open to be corrected

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[–] JunkMuffler@lemmy.one 8 points 1 year ago

I deleted every post and comment before deleting my account entirely earlier today. You're right. The only way to stop Reddit from profiting off us is to not only leave, but burn our content down on the way out the door.

[–] lovesickoyster@lemmy.one 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I nuked all three of my accounts, each with thousands of comments. Fuck reddit.

[–] Csynthare@dataterm.digital 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Double check, they restored my deleted comments and posts.

[–] lovesickoyster@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago

just checked and yup, mine have also been restored - on an account I nuked about 6 months ago. I’ve deleted the account so I can’t even remove them again.

Thank you reddit for forcing me off your platform and not having to deal with your shitty app anymore.

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[–] Blue@beehaw.org 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They are digging themselves in deeper than I expected. At this point, I don’t think I ever want to go back. This is just straight up a middle finger to their communities and contributors.

[–] deong@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean, there was never going to be an ending here where they came out and said, "You know, we've heard you, and more importantly, our VC investors who've given us 1.3 Billion dollars have heard you, and they've told us that your community matters more than their exit."

I'm not suggesting that this kind of timing with Reddit might disrupt one of the largest democratic platforms by converting it into a publicly traded company, but Reddit is definitely giving the same kind of vibes the United States gave when they installed puppet democracies in Latin America.

[–] briongloid@aussie.zone 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Reddit is digging their own grave.

[–] JunkMuffler@lemmy.one 11 points 1 year ago

I see what you did there. 😂

[–] geoffervescent@kbin.social 21 points 1 year ago

Lol, I can't believe what I'm reading. Reddit admitting to the mod community that they have a duty to keep spaces "accessible to users." They've had 20 years to keep their spaces accessible to people who require screen readers and so on. It's been crickets until this week.

[–] PurrJPro@beehaw.org 19 points 1 year ago

Oh they're really sticking by this stupid decision aren't they. Well, they can't complain about being laid to rest if they're the ones who dug the grave, I guess

[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Everything they do just exacerbates the situation

The site will lose whatever tiny amount of cred it has left if they do this

[–] FaceDeer@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Indeed. I was expecting a two-week "calm before the storm" at this point, as the protest blackout ended but the API was not yet removed. But the protest continued and Reddit keeps stirring the pot. Interesting times.

I know that in the end Reddit will be able to brute-force themselves a "win", but if the Fediverse gets a nice solid critical mass of users as a result then I think Reddit's destined for a long decline.

[–] PlasticExistence@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

They're almost literally going to cut off their nose to spite their face. The absolute lack of understanding of the consequences of their actions is... entertaining at least.

[–] neo@lemmy.comfysnug.space 14 points 1 year ago

Let the mass deletions begin!

[–] ShartyWaffles@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

The shit show at the fuck factory continues …

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[–] AdamantiteAdventurer@pathfinder.social 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Anyone looking to delete their posts, comments, and accounts. See below: https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite

[–] insomniac_lemon@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Remember that it won't delete comments from private subreddits. ("Wanna see me do it again?" when one opens back up, at least until the 30th hits)

Also the edit function doesn't seem to actually work (all my deleted comments are just [deleted]... and keep the original edited on date), that may be a technical issue I imagine best bet for that would be to edit-only before deleting your account itself.

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[–] Sterile_Technique@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Damn, wish I saw that before deleting mine.

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[–] jrest18n@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Fk them.

I'm wiping my comment history on that site and deleting my account. I'll never say the name of their website again just to deny the SEO.

I've held off given how much enjoyment/useful content I've historically found there. Was waiting to see if they at least gave an inch.

That site is dead to me.

[–] Gray@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

You could just refuse to say their name.... Orrrrr you could just get some fun SEO terms going so that when people Google it they get results like Reddit sucks dick or Reddit is shit or Reddit hates you.

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[–] xc2215x@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

Reddit is killing their own site this way.

[–] Matthew@lemmy.one 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Maybe the Apollo dev will surprise us and make an app for Lemmy. That might help sway users to try Lemmy.

[–] tinwhiskers@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

I seem to recall seeing something about him not wanting to do that and throwing in the towel on it, but I may be mistaken, and he can always change his mind if so, anyway. But, god that would be great for the trajectory of non-corporate social media if he did.

[–] EuphoricPenguin22@normalcity.life 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I mean, someone else is working on an iOS client inspired by Apollo for Lemmy called Mlem. You can even install it on your Apple device here.

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[–] ShakaWhenRedditFell@startrek.website 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I am going to be unpopular for saying this, but from reddits point of view it makes complete sense. Content they "have" is not viewable, so users that make it unviewable need to be removed.

A vast majority of users on reddit just consumes, they don't post. Maybe comments but not actual posts. So by making those users be able to view everything again, they will keep them on the site.

We can just hope that content quality goes down which would drive users away, but thats more a longterm thing.

[–] ILeftReddit@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It make sense, but reddit also gave mods tools to go private. They gave mods the power to mod their sub as they pleased until they didn't like it. A "no, not like that" scenario

[–] Banzai51@midwest.social 4 points 1 year ago

Reddit is about free speech when it suits them.

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[–] Milk@latte.isnot.coffee 8 points 1 year ago

Already deleted my Reddit account. Trying to get use to Lemmy. So far so good. 🫡

And I hope nobody is surprised.

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 7 points 1 year ago

I giggled when I read the following statement in Spez's memo:

, and in the short term we have a few upcoming critical mod tool launches we need to nail

Seems like they're well prepared /s

[–] fuser@quex.cc 6 points 1 year ago

bring on the scabs.

[–] HuddaBudda@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I am not sure how this change is going to help them. What happens when the communities don't vote out their moderators? What happens when the voted moderators also decide to go private? What happens when the randomly assigned reddit council approved moderator, isn't good at the job?

[–] TechyDad@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago

If the moderators decide to go private again, then Reddit will kick them out and replace them with someone who will toe the official Reddit line. ("Everything Reddit is doing is great and you'll be banned for saying differently!")

If the new moderators are horrible at their job, then Reddit won't care. They're betting on their site being large enough that a few subs going bad won't hurt them. They're also banking on there being no Reddit alternatives for users to flee to. (They don't see Lemmy as a threat just yet.)

[–] bagonthebench@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think we’re guilty of thinking that the number of people who think the way we do is larger than it is.

I don’t think that this is going to mean much to Reddit over the short to medium term. They literally have hundreds of millions of users. Reddit’s death will probably be slow, maybe in the same way as Facebook.

Honestly, I think the best hope for the fediverse is something like Hackernews or Stack Exchange…a robust community using a viable or future-proof platform.

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