I don't think they want that, they have a month before they have to come back with something or you can escalate it to a supervising body. Imagine getting taken to court because redditors flooded your GDPR response process

It not being visible is a relatively recent online phenomenon that I think has lead to some negative feedback loops on social media.

I treat upvotes and downvotes like I used to treat thumbs up, or thanks, or kudos or whatever on much older platforms; a way to say "I agree" or "I disagree" without adding a crap comment that doesn't add to discussion.

If you're using it as a way to vote on what other people get to see that's a reddit thing and this ain't reddit.

You're on a federated platform, people are talking here from across lots of different websites. They're genuinely popular though, most of the posts are human, most of the humans recently left Reddit so there's a lot of shares of favourite content.

"People with no boundaries or employment rights have no idea what we do after work" - In Europe we have a right to disconnect, everyone I know is more than able to use it. This is not a technology issue, this is a rights and culture issue.

That is by far the best mod update and explaination I have read yet.

There's conservative gays and self hating gays and guess what, they're the same gays. Imagine the mod of gaming was Bobby Kotick, sure, he's gamed, his gaming CV is a lot more interesting than most, but is he really the person you want shaping the discourse around gaming?

I'm willing to bet that they don't actually know when a sub went private, just whether or not it currently is. I also would not be surprised if the emails are automated but going out in batches to spread the workload dealing with replies.

Because Reddit got a reputation for being lenient on people who are toxic. I gave up on general, current affairs or regional subs a long time ago it's only smaller communities I'm leaving now.

Think of r/incels or r/The_Donald, r/GenderCritical, r/NoNewNormal etc - and they're the examples from recent, more generally appealing years after the subs named after slurs were nuked. These are the subreddits that got mainstream attention, they may no longer be on Reddit, but their members are, and anyone who would be drawn to them is still signing up, on the other hand lots of people have been turned off the site by those associations. It's not just that there's lots of people joining the site, it's who those people are.

In the same vein it's a really easy site to astroturf and there's no doubt in my mind that the "culture wars" are being stoked there because of it. Because there's a market for aged accounts for use in political astroturfing or general product shilling there are companies running the same shitty repost bots everywhere to produce them. It's a cycle that seems to be getting shorter and shorter.

It's not great is it? Reasonably we just need less vehicles

ActivityPub is the underlying protocol both are built on - it's what allows posts from lemmy to propagate and be interacted with on kbin and mastodon users comment on both via their existing accounts. Think of it as like email protocol but for social media.

Most of it is contained to specific forums, there's just more than one across a few instances, RedditMigration on Kbin is another.

The more time I spend here the more I'm realising blocking communities/magazines is as much a key to a good experience as subscribing to them, of not more.

It'll all die down anyway, to a degree there's just a lot of people here who just arrived from reddit. I'd avoid blocking the word itself as the wave will pass plus it's being used as a comparison in meta threads about features and UI and you might find you want to see those conversations.

Some analysts are waiting to see a withdrawal before they actually believe one is happening.

That article is dirt, it makes wild accusations purely based on not understanding how the Irish legislative process works, or more likely assuming it's readership doesn't. Its not going to do any good here because it reads like something a nutter would put together when you do have at least the gist of the system.

If you actually want to have an impact share things more in line with the iccl statement and if you're Irish talk to your local politician, that noyb article doing the rounds will do nobody any favours.

It's cool to see you here! Thanks for giving the full story. I still don't agree with the decision to open up against the community's wishes but I am glad that you chose to step back rather than being pushed to. I know the discord is there and I see people starting to come together on kbin/lemmy too so I hope we get a positive space in line with the ethics many of us share again soon.

I don't think accessibility is particularly good anywhere, but when software is open source, or failing that APIs free, people take things into their own hands and make it good. I read this in that context, even the fact Reddit would meet with community representatives rather than ask an "expert" is better than a lot of companies, though you would by the outcome if that is genuine or for optics.

@SomeoneElse I used Power Delete Suite, it appears to have an option to overwrite instead of straight deleting though it sounds like some forums have got wind of it! https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite/

A lot of the time they're niche specific, I would have found out about a lot of smaller sites from reddit and then just switched to searching them directly once I had a better understanding.

e.g. every second post in retro games subs was always "how much is this worth" and the answer is use pricecharting.com, analog camera subs or analog repair invariably reference butkus, there's heaps of small archives, wikis and old community forums out there for anything you can imagine.

If there's specific niches you're interested in maybe ask in those forums here, they might be able to point you somewhere.

Yes, we're seeing the same chart. Now add a bicycle, or replace 60 stupid little Tesla's with a bus.

We are not at a point where electric car ownership is a viable solution, we're at least 20 years too late. Even the manufacturing cost us too great.

You misunderstand the use of quotations here, they're air quotes. Reddit has already met with an "expert" - the mods at r/blind would like them to meet with an accredited professional.

I don't know what OP used but I used Power Delete Suite