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.
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.
I just checked on my account I nuked 6 months ago and it's all back - apart from the actual account, so I can't nuke the history again. Obligatory fuck u/spez.
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.
Some of the comments are on a sub that I know specifically did not go dark or private during the protest, so I don't think it is solely from that. I'm going to do it again with a different program, and I will continue to do it until someone leaves it alone. Right now the reddit admin are on alert, but eventually they'll stop paying attention.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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
True but it is also "their" site. So they can do as they please if necessary. I am not sure how anyone is surprised at that. But in turn this now shows what will happen in the future if you try anything out of line, so I hope people who had considered being a mod are not going to anymore.
Just to be clear, I don't condone this behaviour, it is pretty shitty. But what else are they supposed to do if they want to keep the site running. Giving in to users demands seems not an option anymore, and to be fair, it is far too late to give in. Who of us really would return happily if they now said they are not going to charge for API access, how could anyone believe them now?
I would 100% return to Reddit if they stopped this. I can't bring back my deleted history and I won't resub to everything. I'd still keep Lemmy for actual discussion on high visibility topics (you can't have a conversation with 10,000 people on Reddit). But I would absolutely go back until they tried this shit again.
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?
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.
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.)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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