My Reddit data dump came through today, and I stumbled across this post from 2015. I'd just like to tell you all that you're welcome.

l4sgc, 10 months ago

You should make another prediction now for what social networks will be like in another 7 years

ArugulaZ, 10 months ago

Uh, shitty?

aeternum, 10 months ago

For the most part, we're already there. Fediverse is the only saving grace.

lemonh3ad, 10 months ago

That’s what it is in three days.

Thrashy, 10 months ago

In the distant future of 2030, social networking between the scattered bands of surviving humans will be facilitated by ham operators bouncing packet radio off the few remaining satellite repeaters, and importing the responses they receive into their clan's scavenged network via FidoNet.

Kryostar, 10 months ago

@Thrashy @l4sgc I'll be back in 7 years.

shortwavesurfer, 10 months ago

Cq cq cq this is callsign. Anyone around

itsgallus, 10 months ago

ham operators

Imagine all the spam, though.

BastingChemina, 10 months ago

c/dadjokes is leaking !

it was a good one though.

cacheson, 10 months ago

!RemindMe 7 years

DoucheAsaurus, 10 months ago

Somebody give this guy the $10,000

cyberic, 10 months ago

Image Transcription: Reddit Comments

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/u/lotec

Is there an alternative to reddit, like reddit was to digg?

/u/tornadobob

I’d like to see a p2p version of reddit. That would help to keep it out of the hands of corporations. I for one live having a well organized site, but hate being at the mercy of a bunch of people in a board room.

/u/stratos

I think that could open a whole different can of worms, depending on the implementation. I’m not sure how I would feel about my connection being used to route traffic for subreddits with questionable/borderline illegal/copyrighted content, for example. It would just offload some potential legal problems from the site’s admins to its users.

/u/Thrashy

My thought was that you could build it a bit like XMPP, where individual servers can choose to federate with others, and provide a system where a user of one server can use his identity three on all federated servers. Think of it as having a “home” sub that talks to others in a web of connected subreddits, all of which honor the user identities of other connected subreddits.

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I’m a human volunteer content transcriber and you could be too!

Thrashy, 10 months ago

Thanks for doing this -- do you mind if I copy/paste into the post body for posterity?

cyberic, 10 months ago

Of course! Whatever we can do to make lemmy more accessible.

Balssh, 10 months ago

Not sure how you do this, but one way to speedup things is for example using something like iOS' scan text from image feature. Of course, it needs some additional formatting but at least you don't have to type all of the text.

cyberic, 10 months ago

I’ll have to look into something similar, currently I’m transcribing on Windows.

Edit: Also, it forces me to pick a language to respond to you. Is that normal?

Balssh, 10 months ago

I'm not sure how the language setting works when replying but afaik just leave it on english and everything should be fine. I'm sure there are tools for windows to automagically detect text in photos, maybe even Google has something to offer.

azura, 10 months ago

Thank you!

shortwavesurfer, 10 months ago

Thanks for this

webghost0101, 10 months ago

Now this should be a bot.

the_itsb, 10 months ago

is there a Transcribers of the Fediverse community starting or are you just doing this to set an example? I love both options, just wondering if I should join the group or jump on in to participate.

cyberic, 10 months ago

I just did a quick check of communities and no one has made one yet (so I made one). I posted on !main to see if we should move it there and created a community on discuss.tchncs.de/c/transcribersoflemmy

cyberic, 10 months ago

There’s not one yet, but i got permission from the mods at r/TranscribersOfReddit to use their tenplates as long as we change the footer.

I would love to start a community on lemmy for transcriptions, i’m just on a smaller instance.

notenoughbutter, 10 months ago

good bot

jherazob, 10 months ago

Didn’t think i’d miss those dumb bots, but i kinda do

Thrashy, 10 months ago

the unit conversion bot was a nice QoL feature on the technical subs I tended to hang out on.

Shitty Unit Conversion Bot was good for a laugh too.

MoonRocketeer, 10 months ago

Shakespearean bot always came through at the worst possible times to make me laugh, like it would almost intentionally pick posts that were heated and finally cooled off only for it to come in for the punchline.

omnislayer88, 10 months ago

o7

Scorch, 10 months ago

Damn. You’re e streets ahead

I wish I was more tech savvy to have the foresight for future tech applications. I’m already a dev damnit but I can usually only focus on the now or the immediate future.

How widespread was the concept of federation is the beforetimes of 2016?

sporez, 10 months ago

How long did your Reddit data dump take to arrive? I've requested mine several weeks ago with nothing so far.

saluki, 10 months ago

The best possible outcome

KidDogDad, 10 months ago

Wow you invented the fediverse and you didn't even know it!

min0nim, 10 months ago

And he got 2 karma for it. Bargain.

Obi, 10 months ago

Well really that’s one karma since the first point is his and doesn’t count.

riskable, 10 months ago

It’s good to know that the infinitesimally semantic species, technicalis specifcus has also migrated from Reddit 👍

vacuumflower, 10 months ago

That quote seems more like Usenet. But yes.

Would be nice to have the same identity for Lemmy, XMPP, Diaspora and whatever else.

KagariY, 10 months ago

sir i need nest year's lottery numbers :P

spider, 10 months ago

Only got two points because you made their heads hurt. ;)

argv_minus_one, 10 months ago

What kind of data dump? GDPR?

zekiz, 10 months ago

Probably

Gamers_Mate, 10 months ago

Nice I am still waiting for mine do they send you an email or do you have to wait for it to be sent to your account?

JWBananas, 10 months ago

That last part though. The fact that identity isn't federated sucks.

jherazob, 10 months ago

There's been proposals already, and i even think at least one (the Zot protocol thingie) already integrates with ActivityPub (faintly recall reading it at some point last week but could be wrong), but none of that is currently integrated in any way with any Fedi service. So i hope this is done in the not too far future, would rock to create an identity and use it on any Fedi service without needing to create an account on each instance.

mac12m99, 10 months ago

I think it would be very difficult on different service, but possibile on different instances of the same service

Grimlo9ic, 10 months ago

That's uncanny. How did you get it so close?

EDIT: Actually not close, bang on!