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
“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.
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.
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.
A dev here. Not a reddit dev, but a dev. Deleting thing online doesn’t necessarily mean real deletion of the content. For instance, every post and comment is a row of a “big notebook” (a table on a database) and every row is split by columns for specific data: who’s the author, where it was posted (which community), what’s the content and, sometimes, a yes/no column called “is it deleted?”. When you delete such post, you are writing a “yes” inside that column, without actually replacing the content. It’s an oversimplified explanation of how platforms register posts, sometimes there’s a “version” table (think of it as multiple notebooks keeping track of different things simultaneously) that will keep the different versions of an edited post/comment, so they will remain intact inside such table.
Tl;dr: once on the internet, always on the internet (unfortunately). Especially if we’re dealing with a corporation that profits over user’s data. Rare cases where a thing on the internet finds real oblivion.
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?
Might be better to replace old posts with links to the fediverse. Or since those are probably filtered “Google search ‘Reddit alternatives’ and look for the mouse…” or some shit like that.
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.
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!
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Fuck /u/Spez
Leave reddit now.
<3 Melody.
Every day the Fediverse just gets that much better than r*ddit
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
bots are gonna be very disappointed
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.
I’ve already torched my entire comment history there. Fuck reddit.
stop using it
Ok, done. Now what?
nothing else, you are already winning
They could just setup auto moderator rules to bury all new posts
Adding insult to injury, Reddit recently struck gold by licensing its content to train AI models.
Oh, that’ll be fun, considering how much of the content on Reddit is simply bots making reposts.
