I took a quick look while it was up and it was just a user guide, similar to the lemmymigration subreddit
This wild banning of subreddits that promote alternatives to reddit is likely to push a lot of people to leave who may have been on the fence about staying on reddit
I’m just waiting for the real Streisand effect to kick in if they ban /r/redditalternatives
That’s already happening. People are mentioning kbin, lemmy, and tildes pretty regularly. A few others have tossed their sites in as well. It’s going to get passed around one way or another.
I just deleted Reddit after seeing this post lol
If you haven’t done it, go back and delete your posts and comments. Reddit needs your content, without its users providing content and moderation Reddit is done.
Redact can automate your content purge.
Windows, Mac and Linux clients available.
This will go away with the api changes right?
Yes. Don’t wait around if you want to automate content removal.
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I did that :) Also fuck u/spez
Is there any way of downloading / exporting my comments? I know it sounds daft, but there’s some of my early posts about personal stuff that I’d like to keep. I couldn’t find anything in my account settings (first time I’d logged on to the actual website in a long time ha)
I know I saw some programs mentioned in various threads that will download your posts and comments into JSON and .csv files
You can request your data, but it can take 30 days, so that’s not very viable: https://www.reddit.com/settings/data-request
Power Delete Suite automates the exporting of your data, but from what I can tell it just exports your comments into a spreadsheet
Cool thanks. I’d be ok with waiting for the response before deleting my account. I might give that other option a go as well. Once I’ve got all my comments in a spreadsheet I might then realise how pointless keeping them is!
@charlytune @LinkOpensChest_wav I looked through my past comments on Reddit and I think only one was of any use. Frankly I mostly lurked, so they can have those comments. I’ll delete my account June 30th (or before if spez tries damage control again) and just enjoy the fediverse.
Does this affect the karma of the account? I was thinking about selling mine
No, it doesn’t affect the karma of the account. I just tried deleting some of my posts to check this, and it remained unchanged.
Honestly, such a disappointment to see what has been a great community devolve because of such short sighted decisions…
That’s crazy lmao, I found out about kbin through all the fiasco and the subreddit called redditalternatives where it was rated very highly, just a few hours ago too
But anyway, hello everyone, been a reddit user since 2013, this seems like a nice place to lose productive hours to
Came here throught the same post as well! The fewer numbers here are actually motivating me to be more active on this platform.
Me, three! I have to agree that I’ve already commented, posted, and boosted stuff more in the past 2-3 days than I have in the last couple of months on Reddit.
What’s boosting? I’ve also come from reddit but I’ve never heard of this. Is it just upvoting? Lol
Worth adding: it doesn’t exist on Lemmy, only on kbin and Mastodon because those are more Twitter-like.
@bahcodad @introvrt2themax it’s more like retweeting on twitter
And as a side note: it works within mastodon or kbin but not in lemmy.
Thank you
Thank you
Same here
Welcome! I’ve been here for a few days now and this reminds me of the reddit of old. You’ll love it!
Bruh lmfao reddit is tweaking the fuck out now.
Paging Streisand, paging Barbra Streisand. Your effect has arrived.
Absolutely. It’s really quite fascinating, sociologically speaking lol.
Hahaha oh god this is just… wow…
Hard to believe how different reddit was back in 2010
Reddit really hates lemmy since lemmy is practically better than reddit
Absolutely wild that they looked at what happened at Twitter, identified all the things that triggered the several periods of mass migration to Mastodon (shutting off api access, policy changes, shutting down conversation about alternatives) and decided to speed run it. Next thing is trying to directly monetise people by giving them a red tick or something.
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Yeah Genevieve Marie ruined Fark for me. That’s when I went to Reddit. Now I’ve left Reddit for completely different reasons.
Reddit is shifting from user-focused to investor-focused and AI-focused. It doesn’t matter what users think. They have done their job. They can all literally quit the site today, and it still doesn’t sink Reddit’s plans. Reddit has no reason to care what any user thinks anymore. Those days are over.
Technically it has kinda worked out for Twitter though. They still have a sizable userbase, its just a dumpster fire now.
Probably depends on how you define success with these things. The valuation of the company is down a significant amount since it was purchased and recent reports had ad revenue also down a significant amount too. Whether the owner cares about those things is probably up for debate, and evidence would suggest he might be looking for something other than money out of it, like influence, or just a play thing. I’m not sure the owners of Reddit are motivated by the same things, I think they just want to be richer. Time will tell I guess, it’s difficult to tell the difference between incompetence and intentional acts from the outside.
I mean, there’s an argument to be made that reddit was going down this path long before Twitter, what with their hosting and perhaps even promotion of r/t_d
My assumption all along is that the new API pricing thing was in preparation for a backpedal where they implement a paid tier for users that includes third party app access
Very plausible, but they can screw off with that psychological game bullshit. I am tired of everything being about profits these days. I want the early 2000s internet back!
Centralization needs to die, and community collaboration needs to take its place so stuff like that stops happening.
A single entity made a single decision, killing countless devs years of work in an instant.
I haven’t been this entertained by reddit shenanigans in a long time tbh
Is there any advantages to kbin over lemmy? php seems like a much worse tech stack for no benefit.
I think it might serve it’s own niche. I heard the microblog tab makes it a bit nicer to see content from mastodon users that someone is following. so it could develop to be like a hybrid lemmy/mastodon type of tool. But I haven’t read too much into what kbin is aiming to be
Honestly, I joined lemmy.ml first before really taking a look at the ideals of most of that userbase and I just do not agree with a large part of what they identify with.
Bounced around to a few other instances that all seemed… Idk not the right fit. But kbin so far seems much more my style and I finally now got an account created so we’ll see how it goes.
I feel like the server owner matters more than the platform itself. Which is to say that while I’m also not a fan of how far left the lemmy devs are, I have found some lemmy communities to be more in line with my values. I imagine if lemmy grows at all we’re eventually going to see many views represented. So I think whether to use kbin or lemmy should really come down to aesthetic preferences. I personally prefer the look/feel of lemmy, but I respect anyone who prefers kbin. It’s pretty cool that we can communicate across platforms. Really shows the power of ActivityPub.
I’m curious what has turned you off here, since I’m very new. Reddit’s weirdly right wing political tilt has been turning me off for some time now, hoping that’s not the case here.
Also new, and I’m with you- reddit was always too full of right wingers for my liking. I also like this instance (lemmy.ml)and it seems to have a more left tilt, specifically when it comes to bigotry.
Why even bring up politics?
Most of the communities federate with Lemmy though, so Idk if you can escape it.
For example this post is on Lemmy.
And now that I think about it it kind of makes sense. Most of the time if you want a non-corporate protocol, it’s made by leftists or people that are really right-wing.
Kbin is nice. It’s easy to register on kbin.social so might as well check it out, although they are possibly under DDOS attack right now. I’m on there and lemmy at the moment.
Both systems are very similar and are compatible. You can follow lemmy from kbin and vice versa. Lemmy is probably more mature, but kbin is also pretty slick and seems to be moving fast. The community on kbin.social is fairly large so you will likely find more interaction on there without having to subscribe to federated servers. That probably makes onboarding a little easier for reddit refugees. They also have a microblog feature that works like Mastodon (federated twitter alternative) so you get to use lemmy-like and mastodon-like in one app and federate with both.
The fact that kbin is written in PHP shouldn’t put anybody off. Modern PHP isn’t the same as the old stuff that earned a bad reputation. I haven’t used PHP for a long time, but my understanding is it’s now a solid stack that’s on par with other mainstream stacks.
You can follow people on kbin, can’t follow them on Lemmy “because it would require an overhaul”
I mean it’s easier to develop new features when you’re using a language like PHP. I love Rust but it’s going to be laughable at how slow they will move new features out compared to other platforms unless they can get a ton of more developer volunteer support (and way less people know Rust to begin with).
How many new features are there really to add?
I’d rather them be made in a much more solid language than having them fast.
Better profiles, followers, better community customization, better embeds, I can keep going on. Yeah, Reddit has a ton of stupid features that nobody asked for but it also has a lot of things that are very good for everyone. Obviously we’re still in the early days but they’re already running into issues (they are just finishing ripping out all the websockets and chat server stuff, which was one of the big things slowing down instances)
It looks like the Lemmy devs might have some IRL issues.
https://reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/143o5xd/reconsidering_my_support_for_lemmy/
those are the admins of one instance. if you don’t like them, you can join another or create your own
Not if they’ve hard coded their censorship into the platform.
That hasn’t been the case for a while now. It also never truly mattered, the code is available for you to modify.
Really mad that I can’t say my favourite slurs on lemmy. Where can I be racist now?
The admins of one instance and the devs of the whole platform
It’s FOSS, so fork it and host it yourself or find someone else you like who has/can do so. I don’t personally think it’s too surprising that this free (as in freedom) platform was created by and initially attracted leftists and anarchists, and even if it is, I think it matters far, far less than everyone seems to think it does.
Serious question: Since it’s a federated system that is open-source, what do their political views have to do with supporting the platform? Even if they decide to become Neo-Nazis and change it, the rest of use can continue to use the work they’ve made thus far and keep it like it is or improve on it. Our use of it doesn’t support their political aspirations either aside from their beliefs in federated social media.
They have the censorship hard coded in. Why mess with a compromised platform when there are better alternatives available that don’t include censorship and human rights violations?
Must be traumatic to have your worldview questioned for the first time. They’ve been fed anti-communists propaganda from birth and are now trying to avert their eyes, lol. Reminds me of evangelicals when they encounter “satanic” media.
Are you suggesting that there are no valid criticisms of communism, and then removing the agency of anyone who suggests otherwise? I’m genuinely curious as a socdem who likes a lot of liberal ideas.
I’m suggesting this is cult-like behavior, yes. People (especially communists) criticize various Marxist thinkers as well as the positions of communist parties all the time. Of course I don’t think every criticism is invalid. As far as I can tell, they’re barely even doing any criticizing in the linked thread, they’re just going “tankie warning!!! do not hang out with these people!!!”.
I’m happy to say that wasn’t the response I was expecting, but now I’m not sure what to do with my tankie pitchfork.
holy sh!t, this single thread was better than entire /r subs I have seen :-)
lol they’re going to reconsider their antipathy for reddit when they show up here and don’t have the entire reddit “policy” department putting their thumbs on the scales
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Reddit is speedrunning the death of Twitter.
I’m just glad I got out and found lemmy
I run the r/kbin subreddit.
Used for spam. Right. 🙄
I’m on both beehaw and kbin. I’m still trying to understand kbin. I guess magazines are like communities? But the list of magazines, while long, appears to only be local? How do I see communities on other instances to subscribe to them? Beehaw is more understandable. I can see what instance someone is posting from. I can see and subscribe to communities for other instances. I can select to see all my subscriptions from any instance.
So for now, I’ll keep both my accounts. Let the dust settle. Learn how to drive “this thing” and eventually delete an account from a server that I don’t need. It’ll free up space for someone else.
You can find lemmy communities via the search function. Search with @COMMUNITY@LEMMY-INSTANCE, this produces a magazine that is linked to the community.
I don’t think it has communities like Lemmy - it all seems to be kbin.social so it is all local. However, if you head over to Lemmy and locate the communities you want to follow from their big list (like the beehaw.org communities), you can add them to your kbin subscriptions and follow along from kbin. The only difference I’ve found is that Lemmy community links start with the ! sign, so that has to be changed to @ when you search for the community through kbin.
Edit: I’m keeping my kbin and my sh.itjust.works accounts for now to see which I prefer.
It looks like someone is making an extension to handle subscribing to Lemmy communities easier from kbin. I’m still trying to figure it all out myself though.
That would be great! The easier things are for anyone who migrates the more likely they are to stick around and contribute.
I joined here specifically because I saw that had been banned - they must see this as the threat. Anyone have any info about what was in the guide? I registered and subscribed to some things, but still getting my feet wet.
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