Reddit policy changes make sitewide protests nearly impossible
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sometimes the only winning move is not to play
Yep, stop moderating and move platforms. Easy-peasy
fuckin matthew brodderick ovah hereeeeee
How about a nice game of chess
Global thermal nuclear war
Sounds like something you would do if you were about to remove a very popular feature like old reddit in the coming months.
Yeah... something big must be coming and they're gearing up for it.
Old.reddit is definitely on the chopping block and this is the precursor
It provides limited API functionality still and it avoids the shit ad filled new reddit page
Anything but old.reddit is beyond shit.
Whelp... expect to not be having it in the near future cause that's next to go
“communities should honor the expectations they set”
Oh, really?
Too bad Reddit executives don't feel that way about their own website.
pretty sure thats what they meant
The only site wide protest that counts is not to use it
It's what I did and I haven't missed it
I miss it. It has subs for everything: niche hobbies, small video games, IRL games, etc.
Still not worth going back.
Same. This is why I hope Reddit continues to get worse. I want another exodus, and I want my niche communities back...
Still not going back tho.
I mean, sure, sometimes it's unavoidable as a resource because it contains years of info but I don't really miss the social aspects of it at all. As reddit slowly has become worse and worse I've just realised social media isn't really that useful to me. I do hang out on Lemmy and can't say that I don't enjoy it but I don't keep up actively on any social platform anymore.
And delete your posts and comments.
https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite
They've done a lot to neuter that.
Not sure on the technicals but lots of rate limiting to prevent PDS from being able to get everything and outright shenanigans to make posts not appear in the old view which also prevents PDS from deleting them. Not to mention un-deleting comments after a while (even if you use the option to edit before deleting).
So run it early and run it often. And then just delete the account for the rest.
They already have your comments. Deleting your comments only harms future users who are looking for whatever information you shared.
So hopefully if you deleted any informative comments you moved them elsewhere, right?
This doesn't make sense. What value do your comments have to reddit if they aren't presented to users? Harming these future users is how you harm reddit.
Did you actually read my comment?
Some users have seen their deleted content return later. So yes you should try but don't assume it will be permanent
Can confirm! I’ve run that exact utility multiple times. Each time it finds a few posts that were restored.
But it’s like 99.5% effective in deleting posts. So it’s better than nothing.
I've checked a few times, and I've had a few posts show up after I thought I got them all. I think what is going on is that the delete script can't get posts that are on hidden subreddits that you aren't subscribed to. So when people are done protesting or whatever and they set the subreddit to public the posts come back.
Would do so but they bring back allot of posts, and besides I deleted my account. I couldn't take them making it more and more difficult for me to do what I enjoyed on the site.
Enshitificication of Reddit continues!
The beatings will continue until community morale increases... and of course: profits.
Every day the Fediverse just gets that much better than r*ddit
Fuck /u/Spez
Sorry; the above is mandatory these days when talking about enshittified reddit.
I'd say it very strongly looks like Spez is doing exactly what it looks like. I can attest from my days as a meta-subreddit-mod and reddit mod that this behavior tracks exactly with any time Spez thinks he's planning an unpopular change; they pucker up hard and start bracing things they think will be affected.
Probably, it is Old.Reddit; because it likely does not add to their revenue. Old.reddit interface was not designed with advertising in mind and it is purely functional first only.
Of course; by editing or removing old.reddit interfaces; they will be lobotomizing their moderation teams. The new reddit interface provides far less control and granular information; making it difficult at times to moderate without falling back to the old.reddit interface.
Undoubtedly they will likely also try to freeze, disable, or cripple AutoModerator /config/ pages, if they haven't already, or revert them as well when this new enshittification masquerading as a "small positive change" drops. It's hard to say.
Instead of recognizing their moderators as major stakeholders who have chosen to build their communities on reddit; they have chosen violence, and are treating them like enslaved serfs. Hmm...I wonder if that means they could possibly be breaking modern slavery laws... Until Next Time!
https://media1.tenor.com/images/ce7115153e3ae261c59341f516a8ac81/tenor.gif
Fuck /u/Spez
Leave reddit now.
<3 Melody.
I wonder what they are planning that they think will piss everyone off.
Old.reddit being "sunset."
Don’t use Reddit unless you lick boots
The funny thing is this will do absolutely nothing to prevent a sitewide protest. There are so many ways for mods to effectively destroy a subreddit or redirect it while remaining public.
In fact, and this is the important blindness that Reddit continues to have, the mods usually need to work hard daily just to keep a sub usable. Reddit is so dismissive of that effort and so brazenly presumes upon their volunteer labor that they seem to think subs just continue on sheer momentum, if only they could stop mods from sabotaging them.
Mod posts every day pointing to a new community at Lemmy or elsewhere, stopping using bot removal tools, stopping troll culling, marking NSFW, etc will do the job.
custom subreddit CSS: black text on black background
They'll scrap old.reddit.com to avoid that.
subreddit CSS doesn't work on new reddit? lol I had no idea
but if they scrap old.reddit then I see a nice big wave of new Lemmy users coming, and we're much more ready for it this time
Well they don’t want to hurt the feelings of the nazis they protect. Keep reminding them that 400 thousand Americans died in WW2 to give us the right to punch nazis in the face.
bots are gonna be very disappointed
I wonder how it’s going for Reddit? I expect they are still huge.
dunno, for 16 months now, the only time I went there was after a google search and the answer was in a reddit thread... There is 15+ years of answers to various obscur topics and all, "unfortunately"
They're starting to get stale though. Sometimes yes, there will be a 15+ years old thread that's still relevant, but there will also be so many cases that the latest post is 2+ years old and no longer applicable or outdated.
The biggest problem they have I think is that it's all bots, everywhere
It’s surely beyond 50% at this point.
And the newer threads (from the last 1-2 years) often just aren't that helpful. Lots of people who don't know what they're talking about, or comment just to say they have the same problem.
I can usually get a helpful answer by trying a couple search engines or just fighting with Google, but it takes longer than it should sometimes.
They could just setup auto moderator rules to bury all new posts
stop using it
Ok, done. Now what?
nothing else, you are already winning
I've already torched my entire comment history there. Fuck reddit.
Oh, that'll be fun, considering how much of the content on Reddit is simply bots making reposts.
I've said it before, and I will say it again, and again, and again and again.
Good riddance, Reddit.
GOOD riddance, Reddit.
Good RIDDANCE, Reddit.
Good riddance, REDDIT.
GOOD RIDDANCE, REDDIT.
I ditched Reddit when Reddit suspended all my clone on same phone. I make clone for privacy issues.
Privacy is not profitable
No it doesn't, just stop using reddit.
People still go there? They should stop.
Did anyone nazi that coming?
All 10 of us here stand united on this most exquisite and elevated of horses!
It's so weird to be content with/amused by this situation. Feels like Alexandria was just built nextdoor, fisherman have started to arrived with massive boats and high-quality nets, and here we are, the old fishermen pushed off our original fishing site yet full of glee that we don't have to pay taxes in Alexandria. It's like, this isn't really a successful venture, right? We're not really thriving like we were in the past, are we? We're likely never going to get anything like that back either, huh
Idk, maybe my values just don't give me enough internal validation yet, to feel good about it or something. The only consolation I see really is that I don't think the time spent online is very worthwhile anyway. What I liked most was the community but it's become clear most of that was never real
It's always the people with 0 post submissions complaining about this. It's always someone else's responsibility to create communities and find the content to fill them and it’s never enough. Just imagine how much more active the Lemmy side of the Fediverse would be if everyone submitted one article, meme, video, or podcast, etc. a day in some niche community of their choosing. But hey, I guess shitting on the opportunity we have to start fresh is a lot easier than committing to contribute to the slow but organic growth of another news aggregate.
I shit on the opportunity? Dude, I don't think you understood my comment at all, especially since you got so defensive in your response.
Let's try and take a breath and relax. Let me know if something I said hurt/disrespected you and I'll address it since it wasn't my intention to offend anyone.
First, I visit Lemmy daily and comment all the time. Am I not a true Lemmy user because I don't post? I personally think that's a silly thing to say.
Second, I never even mentioned the posts here being the issue. You just assumed that, dude. My issue is entirely the lack of people. Sorry that wasn't clearer in my what I wrote
Finally, if I'm honest, I don't think this place is better than reddit. It may one day be but I don't think it is yet. I hope I'm allowed to have that opinion here.
Something else I think is that the demographic of the userbase is a lot more similar/less diverse than it ever was on reddit. Again, I'm not even saying that's a good or bad thing. They're just realities we should try and understand. It could be both. I just find the hate for reddit to be over the top and I think it clouds people's view of reality. You're welcome to disagree. We could even have a nice chat about it!
I'm of the belief that if we want this place to be better than reddit we need to truly try and welcome people we disagree with into the community so everyone feels like they're included even if they're not always posting or commenting or even visiting or whatever. ;)
I mean, maybe I should just ask, are people here mainly for a defederated social network - and what does that mean to you? I've kinda always been looking for a good healthy community - I hear the Internet used to be way better at that before - and I felt like reddit showed that their communities were fake and ripe for turning on themselves. This place seems identical in that way.
Sorry if I could've communicated that better in this message or the last one