I miss it too - the curated experience after years of filtering out the crap and muting the nonsense, the sleek UX in Apollo, and the many friendly and familiar voices left behind who didn’t make the switch.
My advice would be - don’t give up on the Fediverse just yet. It will take a bit of time for the dust to settle and these multiple federated communities to find their voice. Like on Reddit, don’t ever browse /all - it’s just a litany of low-effort memes. Be deliberate about which communities you sub to, and browse by /sub. There’s enough quality content here to fill a feed, though perhaps not in any single community where the critical mass has not yet been reached to offer fresh content throughout the day.
TL;DR: even if your delete script confirms a full wipe and your Reddit profile page shows zero comment, there may still be comments left over (that you can find through a search engine and delete manually on Reddit)....
Yes, it’s not just just the search engine’s web crawler lagging behind in updating its Reddit index. Following the links takes me to the actual comment, on Reddit, under my username. There are dozens of them, some very old, some recent. Yet the Reddit Profile > Comments page shows I have none left. So even Reddit is not internally consistent.
It’s not just the search results, it’s the actual comments, on the Reddit website itself, still visible under my username. Despite redact.dev reporting a complete wipe weeks ago, and the Reddit profile > comments page returning zero result.
I only used Google to do a sanity check weeks after the deletion, and found all those leftovers that even Reddit doesn’t report to me as being still there.
Interesting - do you have more details about that? I would expect the “top 1K” query to show the leftovers, which would have become the next most top/controversial/etc after the original top 1K got nuked.
Weeks. But it’s not just Google returning obsolete results - when I follow the links, the comments are still there, on the Reddit website, under my username. I’ve clarified my post accordingly.
Are you still able to log in and delete each comment manually? That’s the only reliable method, unless of course Reddit goes full Satan and actively reverses deletions on purpose.
Thank you. I’m boosting your reply as I hadn’t heard of this behavior before (as I’m sure many others) and it’s the most plausible explanation for what’s going here, i.e., not malicious intent from Reddit but rather sloppy design of the profile’s comments feed and how it pulls data.
Une des choses qui m’a fait apprécier les bouquins de SF, c’est qu’on y trouve souvent cette thématique. Je viens de finir la mort immortelle ( T3 du problème à 3 corps) et au vu du “contexte” actuel, cela m’a ramené à cette question: si une entité extraterrestre ou une civilisation du futur vous demandais...
Cette question se pose également dans la perspective, non pas de faire le choix entre sauver l’humanité ou la planète Terre, mais dans celui de laisser la technologie graduellement remplacer la biologie.
L’un des fondements du transhumanisme est l’idée que la prochaine évolution d’Homo sapiens ne sera pas biologique, mais technologique. Il suffit pour s’en convaincre de constater qu’Homo sapiens d’aujourd’hui est identique à celui d’il y a 200.000 ans. A l’inverse, la technologie croit à une vitesse exponentielle ; y compris dans les domaines de la médecine et de l’intelligence artificielle, qui impactent ou concurrencent l’humain.
En extrapolant, se pose l’expérience de pensée du “bateau de Thésée” appliquée à nos corps. Personne ne remet en question qu’un homme équipe de lunettes n’est plus humain ; ni celui doté d’une prothèse de jambe ; ou d’un pacemaker ; etc.
Mais si l’on continue de remplacer ou d’augmenter les fonctions corporelles grâce à la technologie, à quel moment l’individu n’est plus un Homo sapiens, mais une nouvelle espèce (“cyborg”) ? Quid si le génie génétique permet de concevoir des humains davantage adaptés au monde moderne ? A l’exploration spatiale ? A abandonner le tribalisme et sa violence qui caractérisent nos cerveaux de primates ?
Car par ailleurs, si l’on refuse de “cybernétiser” les humains, ils seront de plus en plus à la traîne face à l’intelligence artificielle et ses instantiations physiques (robots de plus en plus agiles, performants, et passablement humanoïdes). Quid si ces humanoïdes atteignent la sentience ? Devrions-nous les traiter comme nos subordonnés, ou comme nos enfants aptes à prendre notre relève dans l’univers ?
Est-il finalement souhaitable de prendre le contrôle de l’évolution humaine, grâce à la technologie (y compris génie génétique), plutôt que de laisser l’évolution, processus éminemment lent et stochastique par nature, faire son œuvre avec tous les “déchets” qu’elle engendre (mutations délétères qui tuent par millions) ?
Et si au final nous pouvions (grâce à la technologie) donner naissance à une nouvelle espèce, à l’intelligence et aux performances supra-humaines, ne serait-ce pas une forme de spécisme (c’est à dire de racisme appliqué aux espèces plutôt qu’aux races) que de refuser de faire converger l’humanité en elle, et de laisser derrière nous notre passé d’Homo sapiens, tout comme Homo sapiens a laissé derrière lui Néanderthal et Cromagnon ? L’humanité se limite-t-elle à sa forme actuelle, que nous aurions arbitrairement choisi de figer dans le temps par égoïsme envers nos ancêtres et nos successeurs possibles ?
spez : je recommande la lecture du livre de Ed Regis “The Great Mambo Chicken or the Transhuman Condition” sur le sujet. Drôle et provocateur.
Les arguments devraient être jugés bons ou mauvais indépendamment du messager.
Mais puisque l’on parle de lui, la DGSE représente 6 de ses 40 années de carrière. Il est d’abord et avant tout un haut fonctionnaire français qui a roulé sa bosse et a été témoin des changements de la société française depuis le début de sa carrière en 1968.
That’s really all on Steve Huffman. He had years to prepare Reddit for profitability and an IPO. He was caught swimming naked when the proverbial music stopped, and he went for the low-hanging fruit (killing the costly API) with nothing but scorn for the dissenting voices.
The board should have fired him after the stealth edits debacle. This guy has no business being a CEO.
Don’t kick yourself. Perfect trading discipline is incredibly hard for everyone. It matters more to keep a cool head when the trade goes against you. You’ll make it back!
I’m personally sitting this one out. I’ve watched Sreeram’s lectures and I share some excitement about the innovative concept of Eigenlayer. I can see that the additional degree of abstraction that it brings creates novel use cases that cleverly leverage Ethereum’s consensus protocol.
But I’ve also chosen to forego some yield by solo-staking instead of playing the LST game because I want what’s best not just for myself, but for the Ethereum network of which I consider myself a modest but principled steward.
For now, I’m applying the same cautious logic to Eigenlayer. I may be foregoing some hypothetical future airdrops and extra yield, but I won’t rush into something so fresh that its impact is not yet fully understood. Like you, the risk of slashing my own node is not even my main concern; the risk of subverting the network is.
The most neutral advice I can give is to read Vitalik’s post on the topic if you haven’t done so already (https://vitalik.ca/general/2023/05/21/dont_overload.html) and decide how much risk the restaking use case you’re considering brings to Ethereum.
I thought today (July 5) might be the day we break $2K, but we didn’t and we seem to be receding right now.
Which leads me to ask, having lost sight of the /r/ethfinance pulse:
What’s this community’s sentiment with regard to the next few months? Are we still stuck in a foreseeably long bear? Are we at the cusp of a crypto spring? Are there trigger points (such as the Blackrock ETF’s approval, or the XRP verdict) that you think must happen before this is even decidable?
spez: thank you for the replies. I love that among four replies, one says surge up, one says crab sideways, and one says drop back down to the local low.
A bit meta, but in parallel to migrating to Kbin, I also started playing with the news aggregator https://news.kiwistand.com/, which is a Hacker News clone for Web3.
As I understand it, a key difference from HN, though, is that Kiwi is an open protocol for submitting and upvoting links. It does not contain identity management features nor the ability to store comments and replies. All you can do, as a user, is connect your Ethereum address to post and upvote links. You also need one ERC-721 Kiwi NFT in your wallet to have the ability to post.
Clients are then free to build their own commenting system (similar to Kbin or Lemmy) on top of the Kiwi protocol. Those clients may store comments data on the blockchain (e.g., an L2) or on a traditional server instance (federated or otherwise), and they may use Web3 authentication, e.g. Metamask or SIWE.
I thought this community might be interested given the Web3 focus and the openness of the protocol. Read more at https://paragraph.xyz/@kanfa/what-is-kiwi (disclaimer: I have zero affiliation to this project).
I think embracing and valuing the principles of FOSS, decentralization, anonymity, privacy, ownership of one’s digital identity and data, online security, etc. requires a degree of technological literacy that most people don’t possess. For most online citizens today who’ve only ever known the current centralized Web 2.0 through the glass of a mobile device, convenience trumps those principles even when you explain their value to them.
The Meta crowd and the Fediverse crowd are not two perfect distinct sets - more like a Venn diagram with some inevitable overlap.
I guess two things need to happen so we can get out of this rut in the technology cycle.
One, the Web3 developers and contributors need to shed their engineering mindset and start getting preoccupied with UX and ease of adoption. As you mentioned, we’re not going to convert the market to embrace the tech for tech’s sake; the onus is on us to adapt to the market’s expectations that “it just works”. That’s the Apple model and there’s a ton of money to be made for those who crack that magic formula.
Second, but related to the first point, is that the tech needs to take a backseat and become an invisible layer. No mass market user needs to even know that their next-gen Venmo or SSO is settled on, or powered by, the Ethereum network. We as a community want our champion L1 network to get the name recognition we think it deserves, but the reality is that just like no average user cares about TCP/IP or even knows about it, our own tech needs to efface itself and be a silent enabler of higher-level apps and use cases.
If you're nuking your old reddit content, this might be important. For me, the reddit history visible on the website was far less comprehensive than the API could access.
As a 10+ year redditor, I would sometimes go back through my profile and delete stale or irrelevant content. Deciding to try a faster approach this week, I installed Redact (available at redact dot dev, or on the Google Play store). It lets you bulk delete, or preview things first, which I wanted to do in case there was anything worth preserving.
When scanning posts/comments, it first says it's sorting by new, then hot, then controversial.
The "new" results were the same as I could see on my profile, but then the "hot" and "controversial" scans found page after page of comments that I couldn't see on my u/ page. There were 50 results per page, and I didn't keep an accurate count, but I removed at least 1000 comments, mostly from 2013-2018, via the API.
No idea how many people this could help, so it seemed like a worthwhile first post on kbin.
I miss reddit
Warning: This is a rant....
I just found out that not all of my Reddit comments had been deleted despite my profile page showing otherwise.
TL;DR: even if your delete script confirms a full wipe and your Reddit profile page shows zero comment, there may still be comments left over (that you can find through a search engine and delete manually on Reddit)....
Douce France (lemmy.world)
(le pire c’est que c’est une belle cascade)
Faut il sauver l'humanité ?
Une des choses qui m’a fait apprécier les bouquins de SF, c’est qu’on y trouve souvent cette thématique. Je viens de finir la mort immortelle ( T3 du problème à 3 corps) et au vu du “contexte” actuel, cela m’a ramené à cette question: si une entité extraterrestre ou une civilisation du futur vous demandais...
Pierre Brochand (ex-DGSE): «Si nous en sommes là, c’est à cause d’une immigration de peuplement massive» (www.lefigaro.fr)
ENTRETIEN EXCLUSIF - Après les émeutes, «le pronostic vital du pays est engagé», affirme l’ancien directeur général de la DGSE au Figaro Magazine.
Reddit seems to be scrambling behind the scenes to try and limit the effects of the migration. Damage control: ChatGPT bots are spamming pro-admin, astroturfed comments (i.imgur.com)
Apologies if this is a repost. They’re scared lol....
Weekly General Discussion - July 02, 2023 <-> July 09, 2023
Welcome to the Weekly General Discussion on Ethfinance...