As a victim of domestic violence who has spent years online trying to help other victims, Reddit's act of undeleting several of my deleted comments just made me have to go through and manually delete. In the process, I had to relive a huge chunk of trauma.
In case any folks who are on a lemmy instance instead of kbin see this post (Hello new users!), boost is a kbin feature, which is a different type of "software" than lemmy. The main kbin instance is https://kbin.social , which can interact with both Lemmy and Mastodon instances
tl;dr - kbin is different than lemmy. They all talk to each other though. Boost is kbin only
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?
Dunno for sure, I feel the same way as you, but I think it’s more about "I refuse to use the app you intended me to be forced to by killing [favorite 3rd party app].
If combined with an adblocker they don’t get your ad revenue but they do still get to add you to the tally of “active users”, so I still feel abandoning ship altogether is best practice.
Hi! I jumped ship following the #redditmigration lol so I guess here’s my #introduction. Currently a music composition graduate student, just trying cool new (to me) styles of music. I’ve got a pretty wide variety of nerdy interests like #dnd#anime#videogames (#FFXIV and #TOTK are my comfort games right now) and #magicthegathering.
@zenzen for MTG, you may want to follow @mapodofu. I love the game; I played a lot of it with my grade school friends several years ago. I don't play it now because I've found other interests. I have 2 of my bests decks around, though, just in case 😁.
I'm mostly a limited player (draft). But if you're into Magic, follow the hashtags #mtg and #MagicTheGathering. =) Lots of cool folks here, and more arriving today, it seems. Welcome!
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.
Reddit admins appear to be removing links to Lemmy instances posted in comments.I'm seeing quite a few "[Removed by Reddit]" comments in /r/RedditAlternatives this evening. Anybody else seeing their comments being manipulated by Reddit staff today?
@Chozo Huffman is really taking all the cues from his hero Musk. Halving the valuation, alienating loyal developers and a core set of users and stifling freedom of information on the internet.
For me as well. Did other apps shut down their service too early. Or did Reddit forget to close their API. It’s 08:22 right now in California where Reddit is based. Maybe waiting for some employee to begin their day and actually close the API.
Just got back from a long hike. Opened my laptop and it was open to where I left off yesterday - a reddit page - but it didn't load. So I checked reddit.com - not available. Did it die without our love?
@takishan given the way the whole thing played out, I struggle to see Reddit trying to do it simply for good will. But again, I know I'm being cynical here.
Maybe in time something will come out... for now - Narwahl seems to be the only third party client that retained access and even NSFW content (which was supposed to be limited to official app and web only) seems to be accessible. (yes, I checked... for science)