So now I float around the web more than a little lost. I have found Beehaw.org, are there any other sites to hang out? (Arts, Creativity, Writing, Pets animals, Design .... fountainpens... journaling?
I stopped using it around when the blackouts started, now it's gone. Is there a way to get them to delete all my data after having my account deleted or did I have to do that before deleting my account
What we are seeing is that reddit is requiring us to apply for a GDPR archive beforehand, and wait. Once we get it then we feed it to shreddit to manually delete it ourselves.
The word is that reddit doesn’t respect the deletion part and requires us to do it ourselves. They also seem to be claiming that after an account is deleted they have no way of finding which comments and posts belong to that account and so no way to do a GDPR archive post deletion.
I’m quite sure this is not GDPR compliant and quite a few folks have said they are now working to report reddit to their version of the ICO. However this is slow going and while I firmly expect reddit to get punished and sanctioned for it the process can take years.
One interesting thing I discovered is that you can't truly delete link posts on reddit. The link can't be changed and stays, all deleting the post does is that your username off of it (shows up instead as "[deleted]").
There are a couple different post types, like image posts. I only ever made text and link posts (and then it was mostly text posts).
I guess that's okay, once the username is gone for that not-so-deleted link post, then it's just a random link shared by some unknown random person. No personal identifying information revealed.
Unless it's a link to like your blog bio or something like that. But then I guess the PII is on your blog rather than reddit and you can always delete it from there, so still no problem.
I think at this point, the AI corps already have good enough training data and don't necessarily need any new stuff from reddit. Probably can obtain enough new training data via deals with their clients and stuff. Also, note that two AIs come from companies with big search engines (G and M$) and a third (FB) is a giant social media site. Yep, they've got enough of their own data.
Hence the recommendation is to overwrite then delete.
That said, while perhaps i can't completely rule it out, it seems like most of these turn out to be confusion over how reddit works, specifically over two things: stuff coming back after private subs go public (or even just restricted) again, and stuff not caught because of the 1000 indexing limits in reddit.
I had a feeling they'll put something like this, so I went in every now and then to see how infinity will react. I really loved the app, devs did an amazing job
What I’m seeing from some of those groups is that they at going to mod the app to let the user give their own api key.
For apps shutting down it gets even more extreme. Apparently the backend server code for Apollo is going open source. So some folks will use a modded Apollo app and run their own backend.
u/Awkwardtheturtle somehow posting an update on her reddit ban ... on reddit itself if i'm reading the pic correctly. Not sure how that's possible, maybe someone saw an edited post from her?
So the lore goes. I never interacted with this - or any power mod on reddit - so I can't speak from personal experience.
The point I'm getting at though - reddit wants cooperative mods who would have gone along with the new rules.
This powermod was likely one of those folks, who didn't support the protests or blackouts, and seems to have just got taken out in the crossfire.
Furthermore it's revealed that this powermod claims to have had a connection to reddit admins.
So basically if this person's connections couldn't save their account, especially this kind of mod that reddit would likely have wanted to keep, it shows how powerless even reddit admins are over corporate. (A lot of us here might have already known this, but even so.)
reddit is really shooting themselves in the foot here, blindly kicking out not only protesters but folks who might have gone on to be great loyalists.
Right??? And reading between the lines of her post, it seems like the admins she reached out to offered to help; and gave reassurances but ultimately couldn't do anything.
So how come even the admins can't do anything here? It's almost as if spez is the one banning them, and only spez is allowed to approve unbans ,or something crazy like that.
Never used a 3rd party app. Was very happy with the official reddit app as recently as a few months ago.
Now that I'm reading this, I have to ask, did reddit push through some updates to make it extra crudy or something? Worse, did they just do it a week before 3rd party apps have to shut down?
Fuck /u/spez and all of that. It would be my 13th cake-day on July 7th 💩and I won't be on Reddit to celebrate because the account will have been shredded and deleted....
I think this might be it. Assumed it wasn't there because it wasn't in r/all right away - which in turn might be a side effect of all the changes reddit put in to hide protest content from r/all.
So folks casually browsing and not knowing the subs may not see the news right away there, and give up and look at other sites instead. I'm happy to call this another win for the protest.
According to The Information, Reddit’s revenues were up 38 percent in 2022, but that’s down from the “more than doubling of revenue” it saw from 2020 to 2021. That said, The Information says Reddit still earned “about $670 million” in revenues last year. I don’t know if getting back the $10 million in “pure...
All other things aside, the specific reason for the ban seems to be unfair - this person would have been one of the "hey make me top mod of this sub and i'll make it public again" folks. Exactly the type that reddit admins want to keep.
I wonder if it's a possibility that the entire powermod slack team protests this by blacking out all the subs they mod indefinitely until the ban is lifted.
A ton of moderators have been making changes to their subreddits' rules (e.g., only allowing certain posts, going NSFW, loosening rules a ton) to protest without getting kicked out. Do you think this strategy of turning a subreddit into shitposts is effective or not?...
I thought about it and it'll be helpful a thread going of folks who made a request, and when they got their data. To help give other folks an idea of when they might here back, if they put a request in now....
Note though that this may not be true of everyone - for example if you want your saved posts beyond 1000 (and these saved posts aren't your own or ones you commented on) then the above trick won't help since pushshift didn't have the saved post information.
OC Post ban and deletion weirdness
After deleting my account, which was permabanned, on old dot reddit dot com it still shows up with the user suspended message....
After three years my reddit posts and comments and account are deleted.
So now I float around the web more than a little lost. I have found Beehaw.org, are there any other sites to hang out? (Arts, Creativity, Writing, Pets animals, Design .... fountainpens... journaling?
Just deleted my 6 year old reddit account!
I stopped using it around when the blackouts started, now it's gone. Is there a way to get them to delete all my data after having my account deleted or did I have to do that before deleting my account
I don't miss reddit, but this notification hit hard (lemmy.world)
I had a feeling they'll put something like this, so I went in every now and then to see how infinity will react. I really loved the app, devs did an amazing job
u/Awkwardtheturtle posting an update on her reddit ban (teddit.adminforge.de)
u/Awkwardtheturtle somehow posting an update on her reddit ban ... on reddit itself if i'm reading the pic correctly. Not sure how that's possible, maybe someone saw an edited post from her?
Six verified Reddit employees discussing the current atmosphere at the company. Featuring "First the company needs to get rid of Steve", "It's garbage", and actively hoping to be laid off (teddit.adminforge.de)
The official app is hot garbage
On a whim I decided to give the official app a try because a lot of people will be forced to use it, if they decide to stay on Reddit....
Seeing a lot of threads seeking validation for their choice to move from Reddit
Fuck /u/spez and all of that. It would be my 13th cake-day on July 7th 💩and I won't be on Reddit to celebrate because the account will have been shredded and deleted....
"Kbin: covering all the current news and rumours out of Russia about Wagner, a possible coup, etc. Reddit: *crickets* Make of it what you will. 🤷♀️" (indieweb.social)
Kbin: covering all the current news and rumours out of Russia about Wagner, a possible coup, etc. Reddit: crickets Make of it what you will. 🤷♀️
Maybe Reddit’s slowing revenue growth is partially responsible for the company trying to lock things down. - The Verge (www.theverge.com)
According to The Information, Reddit’s revenues were up 38 percent in 2022, but that’s down from the “more than doubling of revenue” it saw from 2020 to 2021. That said, The Information says Reddit still earned “about $670 million” in revenues last year. I don’t know if getting back the $10 million in “pure...
OC Permaban roll call
Shout-out to my sisters and brothers-in-arms!...
Infamous Reddit powermod, Awkwardtheturtle is permanently banned (www.reddit.com)
What do you think of subreddits protesting with rule changes (e.g., only allowing John Oliver)?
A ton of moderators have been making changes to their subreddits' rules (e.g., only allowing certain posts, going NSFW, loosening rules a ton) to protest without getting kicked out. Do you think this strategy of turning a subreddit into shitposts is effective or not?...
OC Reddit Data Retrieval Request timeline thread
I thought about it and it'll be helpful a thread going of folks who made a request, and when they got their data. To help give other folks an idea of when they might here back, if they put a request in now....