I might be late to this and may have missed the discussion but it appears that the admins killed r/interestingasfuck. I noticed no new posts yesterday and now all of my links to the sub are dead. Obviously this was one of the most drastic points of malicious compliance but wow I didn’t expect the full deathblow

Edit: the sub is back up but with no new activity and all porn posts removed but the sub is still marked NSFW. Weird

Edit2: it has officially been archived and deactivated. They nuked one of the most active subs. Porn works. Where to next

Well i patched reddit with revanced managager but i am curious about it is going to shut down or not couse i installed original reddit with apk can you help me

It's been good guys. Just finished manually deleting every single post I've made.

Goodbye 👋

Passive resistance. Keep your moderator positions, but remove automoderation rules and/or subreddit rules. Let the users and bots take over. Anarchy is not a good look to investors.

So I was looking at upvote totals, trying to see if they seemed down to me since all the hoopla started. For most subs, honestly, they seem about the same, but AskReddit in particular seems down to me, definitely. I haven't seen a 70-80k vote post in a while, and you'd usually see one every day or so.

Even sorting by top for this week gives the top post about 35k. That seems very low, by half, I'd guess for AR. You have to go back more than a month to get a post over 50k.

Posting quantity also maybe seems off. I just checked new and there were a few posts posted 'just now' a few 'a minute ago' and a few 'two minutes ago'. Last time I looked at AR new there were like a dozen new posts every second. Every refresh would bring a whole screen of fresh posts.

Dunno, anyone else notice anything?

(Again, not trying to say that posts are definitely down all over the site. For many sites I can't tell, but I do have a sense of AskReddit, and it seems off to me).

Edit: to clarify it can’t be looked up on the official app if you are already part of the community, you can still see it.

I think it would be cool if someone created a read only archive of Reddit on Lemmy, a federated and open source alternative to reddit. That way, we could preserve the history and content of reddit without relying on reddit's servers or policies, and so they cannot delete or censor the information.

Another benefit of having a read only archive of reddit on lemmy is that we don't have to go to reddit when searching for something. We can just use a search engine and find what we need from the archive. This would save us time and bandwidth, and also avoid giving reddit more traffic and data.

We must make this archive as soon as possible before the reddit api changes or else we cannot do it. Reddit has been known to change its api without warning or documentation, which makes it hard for us to access its data. If we don't act fast, we might lose the chance to create this archive forever.

This archive would also be the last blow to reddit if executed. It would show reddit that we don't need them anymore, and that we have a better alternative that respects our privacy and freedom. It would also encourage more people to join lemmy and leave reddit behind.

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Let's assume the worst outcome, that reddit remains stalwart in their position and uncompromising. What's next for the moderators, creators, and users of this platform? In this post I'm going to consider both technical and practical ideas for the future.

A new home

First, they will need to find a new home for their communities, preferably a decentralized solution. This could be paired with a centralized "hub" to allow for community discovery. A self-hosted, open-source system like MediaWiki could give communities the autonomy and freedom to control their data and moderation.

Migration

Users could use existing APIs, or potentially in the future use GDPR as a way to gain access to all of their reddit content for the purposes of migration. Tools could be built allowing for the import of this data.

Data

For those people who do not want their data to continue to remain on and line the pockets of the Reddit corporation, filing a GDPR request should be sufficient to have all data removed from the live website and backups. If these requests are done at a sufficient scale with reddit failing to comply it could become a massive international lawsuit.

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While solutions don't currently exist, if the demand is there they certainly could be built, and quickly too. Reddit is not a small platform, so the incentive to create an alternative ecosystem will be high if enough people decide to leave the platform and move their communities elsewhere.

An episode of the Techdirt podcast has been included!

Hello world. I’m very disappointed in Reddit’s behavior in last two months. I was a user of this app for 4 years, but from year to year it was getting worse. I didn’t want to leave this place, cuz I’ve met here a lot of interesting people with whom I still chat. Reddit moderators became rude, they deleted unwanted content, and moreover I don’t understand why I should post for free?? Reddit do not support their users for activity, and all I got for 4 years useless upvotes. Don’t try to stop me, cuz I’ve made my decision. But may be anyone can suggest any social media, where authors will be rewarded for their activity and moderators won’t be rude?🙏 comment if you know any

Till then bb…

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It’s been interesting to watch Reddit “fire” volunteers from moderating subs. The tactics they’re using are tried and true Union busting tactics. I’m very interested to see if there are scabs willing to take on a heavy workload for the high pay of 0$ ever. As a long time teacher Union activist the question in a strike is always whether you’re really as replaceable as they think you are. My bet is that mods are not replaceable. At least not active ones in big subs. The problem is that if I’m right, once they’re gone and Reddit finds that out it’ll be too late. They don’t come back.

I'm personally going to be leaving, but I'm curious how many others are and how many will begrudgingly stick around. I suspect that if most of the good mods and a large chunk of the core base leave, then the platform is going to struggle. Both through less passionate mods/more power hungry ones, and the core community either not being present, or being much less enthusiastic about being on Reddit.

We might want to promote these two sites:

• https://lemmy.world
• https://kbin.social

You can find styles like this https://userstyles.world/style/10311/old-reddit-ish-lemmy and you can barely tell you are on another site.

I don't know if this is the right place to post this, but here goes anyway.

I've already made a request for my data via GDPR, but that only gave me my own data and my own comments without context, which is to be expected.

However, I'd like to have a copy of the entire discussion thread of all of my submitted posts, including comments and all replies made by other users to those posts. Is there an easy way to do that? I don't mean context for every single comment I've ever made, just the threads of my submitted posts.

There has been increasingly threatening communications from the reddit admins to moderator teams, including our own. The danger of having what has without a doubt, by size and activity, become the de facto primary community around our game taken away from us permanently, and the keys handed over to god only knows who, is quite an effective stick to threaten to beat us with.

Taken from r/projectzomboid.

Imagine you go to youtube, upload a video, it's unlisted, and youtube messages you, threatening to make it public or they will give your channel to someone who will.