L4sBotReddit API fee protests push into third week
linearchaosThere's no way they can IPO with under the current circumstances. They'll not be able to strong-arm the volunteers into submission. I'm thinking there's a deadline, they'll drop spez and sell the company off to some place that gives a crap.
KetchupWouldn’t it be enjoyable to watch receive news of that here on Lemmy đź¤
They'll sell the company off to some place that will give less of a crap. It will become Deaddit.
you're not wrong
DeadNinjaDeaddit - love that moniker !!
Reddit was once a beautiful thing, I hope a way can be found for it to remain so. But this seems like a much nicer place now, more like the Reddit of old. So unfortunately, Deaddit seems like the only moniker that fits now.
Kinda sorta hope we can federate in reddit's history at some point, like a static instance and move on. I've pretty much jumped ship, but no point in denying there's a history there.
While Greece is still relevant today, its ancient history is what people look to. So long as Reddit continues to exist in search results, it will serve a similar purpose.
The problem with your analogy is that swaths of Reddit's knowledge is intentionally being overwritten by its posters. There's no guarantee that indexed search results won't link to a comment that just says "Fuck /u/spez".
this is what I fear, this is probably a hot take but I hope reddit might as well make it possible to see the first iteration of a comment, genuinely useful for knowledge subreddit
Reddit has, throughout the years, said that they don't keep a revision history of comments, only the text from the most recent comment and flags like "deleted", "edited", "removed by mods" etc.
Of course, they could be lying, but a lot of these things were said before the recent drama and there's no real reason to doubt.
I suppose one could go dig up the old open-sourced code from like 2017 and see how comments and posts were stored then, and hope in the intervening years they hadn't altered it?
blivetI suspect it’s the truth. For a site the size of Reddit keeping a version history of comments would represent a huge expenditure of resources for essentially no purpose.
Let's be real. That probably happened with ancient civilizations like Greece and Rome too lol in fact there are some d ocumentaries that point out just that, with Graves being defaced with.. unkind words haha very uncouth and graffiti all over temples that are anti certain statesmen of the time etc
gornarI appreciate this sentiment!
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I_Miss_DanielReddit croaked?
Reminds me of the old dad joke.
What did the chicken say in the library?
Book book book.
What did the frog say in the library?
Reddit reddit reddit.
tinwhiskersReddit is now further away from a public offering than it was last year, Mr. Huffman said.
https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]/t/85610/Spez-talks-to-NY-Times
saltI've been pleasantly surprised by the number of people who are continuing to stick with it + be supportive. I didn't expect anything beyond the planned end of the blackout, although I didn't expect thousands of subreddits to participate in that either. Either way I've basically cut Reddit out entirely. I used to scroll 2-3hrs a day and I'm down to maybe 10 minutes once or twice a week when I'm trying to find an answer to something. Attempting to fill my newfound free time has really been something
That’s what I’ve been doing here instead, lol.
It's annoying that so much of my search results rely on community discussions from reddit. I've pretty much ditched the site entirely and am getting pretty comfy here, but a lot of historical discussions on reddit simply can't be replaced and likely never will be.
Well, no offense, but I don't want both of my arms broken to begin with, let alone what comes after!
DreamButtWeirdly enough it got me more engaged with social media. In the sense that now I'm posting and talking with people on lemmy and mastodon more than I ever did on reddit. Weird how a place can get so popular it stops being a real community after a while
I don't know that it has me engaging more but it feels more fun and meaningful now. Reddit had turned into man yells into the void for me. Now I feel like I'm talking to real people again on Lemmy. It's such a relief honestly.
It helps not opening a post to find 10k plus comments and the top comment with 4k upvotes.
same here. still need to learn my way around, but overall it's very promising. I've not checked Reddit since the beginning of the blackout, however i might do it for some very niche subs. hopefully I'll find alternatives.
ilexDo you mean you're masturbating more or you took up painting?
Or painting themselves masturbating?
My god. And all thanks to daddy's little cumslut, Spez. Go figure.
AnonymousLlamaI'm enjoying the extra free time I've reclaimed from reducing my Reddit usage. Been investing it into little side projects and also fixing up little UI/UX issues on sites like kbin.social
I've gotten a lot more serious about playing TotK every waking hour, but to each their own.
ESP32 Home projects here!
Air quality sensors for now, maybe better presence detection next.
I've been thinking about jumping into a long JRPG or something just because I have the free time.
themadcodgerI was hoping to get free time back by ditching reddit, but now I'm spending a lot more time in the fediverse, mostly here and Calckey. At least the content and vibes are better here.
TigbittiesI've been weening myself off RIF and onto kbin. Once it's gone so am I.
Soon we'll have Sync for Everything Âą!
Âą Not you, Reddit.
I can't wait for that, Sync has been my all time favorite
iAmTheTotHaven't opened RIF since the 12th using only Kbin since. Don't miss it. Fuck spez.
Honestly? I've ripped off the bandaid and moved operations over here. It feel weird and treacherous just going back to check for zombie comments.
Y'alll are more my speed anyway. Prost! 🍻
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talIt feel weird and treacherous just going back to check for zombie comments.
Well, replace "reddit.com" in the url with "teddit.net" and you can view content on Reddit without going to Reddit.
Just wiped all my comments a couple hours ago with the help of PowerDeleteSuite. Didn't quite take the first time, and was surprised that it was a clean sweep the second time. From what I've read, I shouldn't have expected that degree of success.
Even so, I'll check back periodically to see whether they've been 'restored'.
I'll not contribute to that site any longer. I might still pop on over once in a while, eg, if a web search leads me there. But I'll be sure to have my adblockers/anti-trackers engaged.
RE: https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite
Works great, but you have to baby sit it was it'll occasionally display an error, and you have to click a button...
https://lemm.ee/post/314486
And now people are doing GDPR requests. Literally takes 3 seconds. Might as well!
Will edit with the direct link in a second. It's also a comment in the above thread.
why can't jerboa open those links?
SemmelstulleI think it might be because there is no "this is a Lemmy domain" in the HTML header and thus the Jebora Dev needs to register every website it can open manually and separately.
CynicalMillennialWe don't even need to be worried about 'failed' protests lol, things be will be pretty fucking obvious when nobody comes back in a few days when the mobile apps shut down. Shame Reddit.
I kinda don't even care, I'm enjoying my time here. That's really all that matters, isn't it?
randompersonI don't really get what protesters wants to achieve now but only a moron would go back even if they announced that there won't be any API changes knowing what CEO of that shit company thinks about them. Stockholm syndrome is strong in these people.
zeppoI don’t see why anyone would be still trying, other than perhaps mods of major communities who want to hold on to their power or prominence. For typical users, who cares. It’s like knocking and knocking on the door of an ex-friend who kicked you out of their house. Just go somewhere else.
It's a little more nuanced than that. A lot of mods are community founders. They care about their community, not reddit. Reddits just a middleman getting in the way.
Imagine a group of friends. Reddit is the friend with the best house for parties, but is kinda a dick. The mods are the social ones that brought this friend group together in the first place. Reddit is being stupid and making dumb rules that mostly hurt the mod. The mod is trying to either get reddit to relax the rules OR convince the rest of the friends to leave. Truthfully the friends should leave, but reddits house is so nice and they're comfortable. The mod could leave, but they're afraid all that will result in is losing their entire friend group. The whole situation sucks all around.
I MISS MY PODCAST SUBS :(
seriously, I was most active in those communities. Lemmy/Kbin are great for general info with comments that I mainly used reddit for, but the smaller communities with OC and memes that only those 50k people understood is gonna be fucking hard to recreate here.
I'm glad people aren't backing down, whether you left Reddit entirely for Lemmy like I have or keep trying to start fires over there, it all hurts Reddit's IPO.
nightscoutDon’t go back. Even if Reddit makes concessions, the CEO has shown that he will do whatever he wants and doesn’t give a crap about the users of Reddit, you know, the people who actually make him money. Any site controlled by a CEO is at risk of this happening.
SunrosaNot just shit controlled by a CEO, literally anything for-profit. For-profit software does not care about your experience. It cares about gouging as much money as it can from you. Open source software, the antithesis, is made for and by the people. It's there to be as useful and enjoyable as possible. Open source software has nothing to gain from forcing you to jump through hoops, unlike for-profit software. They put the hoops in place, then force you to pay them to fix the problem they deliberately caused.
IppeiThis won't go anywhere as long as users aren't willing to leave reddit. Mods can be replaced, users can't.
I left...reddit honestly seems clunky now...I go back to watch it burn but it's not burning enough :( maybe instead of John Oliver they should be posting dragons or something jeez
x4740NPeople should just start posting really unflattering images of spez or photoshopping spez
That would really piss him off
It took many years for reddit to take off to become a huge player on the internet. Digg, Twitter, and myspace where the big players in 2005 to 2010. Then people started to move to Facebook, Snapchat, and Reddit as they became more popular. It only a matter of time until Mastodon, Lemmy and other federated platforms take over. Especially if the community keeps growing and spreading the word.