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I'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 been.. fun

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! 🍻

Don’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.

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.

There'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.

I 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 shit CEO of that shit company thinks about them. Stockholm syndrome is strong in these people.

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.

The longer this goes on, the more convinced I am that this will actually damage Reddit significantly.

This won't go anywhere as long as users aren't willing to leave reddit. Mods can be replaced, users can't.

I 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.

Well, since we are here on Lemmy, it feels like that good damage is already done on Reddit side.

If the injury is a fatal one, only time and the engagement on the alternatives will tell.

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.

Edit: direct link for GDPR is here: https://lemm.ee/comment/402687

Third week? Damn, i sweared i joined only two weeks ago

Reddit is a full trashcan nobody bothered to empty for 10 years. Lemmy it up!

Given that reddit is making it difficult for users to delete posts and comments [1]. I wonder if it will make it more difficult for them if instead of deleting the comments and posts, but we flood the posts and comments with garbage edits.

Something like this could be easily scripted out. Could use browser automation if you don't want to use the reddit api.

If they truly have the ability to roll back deleted AND edits on a post and comment level, then flooding the change history log with garbage edits will cause them to hemorrhage money in terms of cold storage (ie, Amazon S3) and database size.

They can't be infinitely storing all of the edit history. So at some point they have to purge the oldest commits at which point makes it equivalent to deletion of original post, except now they are keeping garbage and paying to keep that garbage stored. Have fun running your LLM on that junk.

Something like this:

• original comment: "Some thoughtful comment here"
• 1st edit: <edited to hit max comment length with garbage content, maybe "lorem ipsom" placeholder stuff>
• 2nd edit:
• 3rd edit:
• nth edit: ...

Again, this assumes they are even keeping the edit history. Would be nice if we can get insider information from a reddit backend engineer to confirm.

[1] https://lemmy.world/post/647059

I've been weening myself off RIF and onto kbin. Once it's gone so am I.

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.

We 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.