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    I’ll say it every time: it’s their platform, their servers, their choice. However, we owe them nothing. If they want to go it alone, we need to let them. Let them hire paid moderators and we should delete our content so they have to create their own.

    We built the communities there, we can do it again elsewhere. We have the expertise and the desire.

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      Reddit chose to be non profitable in order to kill off all internet forums.

      It’s reddit that’s changing the terms, not mods acting up.

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        It kinda reminds me of what happened to rural buses in Canada. We had small bus companies going all over the place. Greyhound bought them all out and ran the whole thing as a monopoly for a few years.

        Then they decided it was too much trouble and shut the operations down.

        For the last twenty years there are no rural buses at all. If you want to get from point a to b outside of town, it’s flight or drive.

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          Like everything else. Big money buys out competition and then kills off anything that is not profitable enough. Parasitic private equity take all the money.

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          That’s incredibly sad, and as the other commenter suggested, all too common with big daddy capitalism. I can’t describe how angry it makes me, and how powerless those situations make me feel at times. I’m so happy, and proud, when I see communities truly fight back - and I can fight along side then. So often we go out with a wimpe, I want to fight for the things important to me!

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        Seems the person that spread that was mistaken.

        They deleted content that was in public subreddits, then when the privated subreddits started going public again, the posts he made in those became visible again, making it seem certain content he deleted was being undeleted.

        So far, there’s been no verifiable report of actual undeletion of content.

        But besides all that, with GDPR and the similar California laws, Reddit is already asking to get sued and get the EU on their ass, for not deleting peoples data on request, as compliance requires.

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          “The person that spread that?” Are you being serious? That’s happened to a lot of people. It’s happened to me repeatedly. In fact I’m right now yet again deleting a bunch of posts that stayed deleted for days and are mysteriously back again.

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            Yeah, that previous explanation makes no sense – the YT guy who recorded his entire session was deleting the same stuff over and over again.

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              That sounds like a server error.

              Don’t get me wrong. I have no doubt that Reddit has decided to go to war with any unhappy users. I have zero respect left.

              Out of self-respect, I will still try to understand whether something is a bug or deliberate.

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            Are you certain it is the exact same comment or post? I think people are deleting everything (via scripts or whatever–some scripts are known to not work/only appear to be working–particularly ones that make use of pushshift which reddit destroyed a few months prior to this incident), but everything isn’t actually everything because of the way reddit hides content in certain situations. When people have posted screenshots it has been content from subreddits that had be set private during protests and reopened. Reddit annoyingly hides your own content from yourself in many circumstances.

            I’m not saying these undeletes definitely do not happen, but people have needed to delete content on Reddit for reasons the pre-date the protests. The legal risks to reddit for them to be caught restoring content that a user deliberately deleted is significant. So unless a whistleblower or compelling evidence emerges Occam’s razor will go with reddit bugs and “features”. Everyone knows reddit is bug-ridden.

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        I’ve just been sorting my comments by highest score and replacing a dozen or so each day with something like “-> fediverse”. So far none have been restored. Most of the lower scored comments don’t have value to anyone anyway so I’m just ordering by most impact until I get bored.

        Not participating isn’t the only choice.

        On days I’m feeling particularly petty I go into discussions and vote down the good comments and vote up the bad ones just to make the signal to noise ratio worse. Yes, I’m that petty.

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          I’d skip the vote one, it’s just giving them a bit more traffic stats. Agree with the edit though.

          If you wanna be petty, edit your posts into contextual nonsense that looks like it fits, so Reddit gets just a little harder to read.

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            Damn that’s a good idea. Sort by highest karma and make them word soup that makes readers question their sanity. I just went with ‘.’

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        Most of that was from subs coming back online. You can only delete visible content. I’ve been going back every few days and deleting the stuff that came back online.

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        For what it’s worth, I used Power Suite Delete to replace everything in my 14 year account with a deleted message, haven’t seen anything get reverted yet.

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        Engagement is what drives social media. Upvotes, likes, page views, searches are the fuel for their algorithms. (Or at least that’s what it seems to me.)

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        That will come automatically once my 3rd party app doesn’t work any more. Hopefully some Lemmy apps will be available in the App Store soon. The website on mobile is quite suboptimal.

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      we should delete our content so they have to create their own.

      Any content that users have posted to reddit became theirs with the TOS you had to agree to first. They’ve already undeleted user submitted content deleted as part of the protests. I agree it’s time to cut them loose and move on, but you won’t be able to retroactively stop them from profiting off the content they already have.

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          I live where the laws are less helpful. EU and California have the helpful ones. But as a non-resident, my understanding is that the law allows full removal of personal info. Deleting posts would be selective removal and doesn’t have the “and I live in the right place” question.

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    You MUST re-open the community you helped build over the years for free so that we can earn BIG monies on teh ads!! Make us monies for FREE slave!! We pay you NUTHIN! You work hard for USSSS!!! Work when WE tell you too!!! foaming at the mouth with rage

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      Don’t understand why other tech sites didn’t follow this story as closely as The Verge did. They are witnessing the downturn of one of the largest websites in the world.

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        Middle/ upper management for most everything don’t seem to actually know much about the real world from what I can tell.

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      Some in the verge are 3rd party app users. They get the betrayal reddit users feel from the way the API change was handled.

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    Man Reddit is really trying to push a narrative of big bad mean mods, never mentioning they’re unpaid and being ignored while doing a shitload of labor

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    Step 1: open the sub.

    Step 2: make every member a moderator.

    Step 3: watch the world burn.

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        One time i think r/darkhumor did a while ago like make random people mods (or is it r/darkjokes ??) and… yea lol

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      Can’t be done unfortunately. There’s a limit to how many pending moderator invites there can be. r/politicalhumor did the next best thing though.

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    Absolute garbage way to treat people. Foreshadowing for how reddit, and probably other places, plan to treat the communities they so love to claim credit for.

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    I deleted 9 years worth of user content, across 5 different reddit accounts. Followed by CCPA “Delete My Data” demands, on each account.

    It’s almost as if, a large majority of reddit users are spineless, or consider their useless internet clout points more valuable than a small sense of morality…

    A temporary blackout is not a protest compared to this method.

    For those wondering… TamperMonkey browser add-on with RedditHistorySanitizer userscript (https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/23605-reddit-history-sanitizer/code). It’s kinda slow, but much faster than doing it manually!

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    That Google exec’s comments along with the Apple showcase of Apollo must have reddit leadership shitting their pants.

    So much for the protest having “no effect”.

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    The mods make the community. I have modded a few subs and it is a pain to do well, so I stopped doing it. I have definitely had issues with mods (who hasn’t), but if large numbers of the good ones leave Reddit is screwed.

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    I hope more communities think of migrating to other places instead of staying on reddit. It’s getting worse with each passing day.

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    The sheer of panic in Snoo Platform, Inc. means that protest and blackout work.

    IPO blackout looks even more good now.

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    I deleted 9 years worth of user content, across 5 different reddit accounts. Followed by CCPA “Delete My Data” demands, on each account.

    It’s almost as if, a large majority of reddit users are spineless, or consider their useless internet clout points more valuable than a small sense of morality…

    A temporary blackout is not a protest compared to this method.

    For those wondering… TamperMonkey browser add-on with RedditHistorySanitizer userscript (https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/23605-reddit-history-sanitizer/code). It’s kinda slow, but much faster than doing it manually!

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      It’s almost as if, a large majority of reddit users are spineless, or consider their useless internet clout points more valuable than a small sense of morality…

      Or they’re just, you know… children. Or people who were never familiar with the site pre-official app. I don’t mean this in a disparaging way, but reddit 2014 is not the same as reddit 2023. They feel like entirely different websites to an extent (well, visually they actually are).

      I’m willing to bet the average age on there right now is probably mid-to-late teens. They most likely use the official app and don’t see the need to be involved in this because they weren’t on the site when there wasn’t an official app like most of us. I doubt many users are even that familiar with the old design.

      The whole target market is different now.

      I don’t think they care about points or clout or whatever. Vast majority of reddit users are lurkers or occasional commenters. Doubt many have all that much karma to spare.

      I think they simply don’t understand the effects here because to them “third party” isn’t something that they knew existed. “API changes” isn’t something with a lot of meaning to most users.

      The majority simply doesn’t care, because in their minds, they don’t need to. It’s “not their fight”. Whether they should care is obviously another story.

      We’re in a minority. Mods, third party app users, people who have a history with reddit. How many casual reddit users fall into one of those groups? How many into two? How many into all three? Not a lot.

      This is, and always has been, a protest by a minority of reddit’s users. One you, me, and the thousands of people who left reddit for Lemmy/kbin/Fedi support, but not one that a lot of casual users felt any resonance with.

      The situation is a lot more nuanced when it comes to reddit users as a whole. It’s not a simple “with us or against us” situation as some like to believe.

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        I miss the days when actual, breaking news would be on the front page almost immediately. It hasn’t been that way for years…

        It’s funny, I don’t miss it at all.

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        Yes. Mods form a very important minority.

        I’ve seen statistics showing that most of the traffic returned. I wonder, how long will that last without good mods?

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          100%.

          Reddit is mostly lurkers. I’m (well, was) one of them. People get thousands of upvotes, but not thousands of replies.

          When mods lose the tooling that they need and spam maybe starts slipping through, I expect one of two things (or both) will happen:

          A) They blame the mods. Doesn’t matter if it’s new mods or old ones. They’ll say the old ones are doing it on purpose because they “lost the protest” and the new ones “don’t know what they’re doing and only want the power”.

          B) Traffic dips slowly. Very slowly. There might be a major drop in a couple of days, but it’ll rise up to similar levels once people are “fuck it” and use the official app. That’s what reddit’s counting on, and they’re not wrong. I’m guessing the amount of people who leave permanently is significantly lower than the amount of people who “just want to use reddit”.

          I also expect reddit to fuck up again. Every few years, they do and alienate a bunch of users. I doubt it’ll be a major, site-killing fuck up, but there’s probably going to be “waves” in which a portion ditches the site. They’ll typically gain enough users to make up for it, but quality will probably get worse over time.

          It’s funny because I’m guessing a bunch of people who right now are all “don’t know why you’re complaining” will be loudly protesting when reddit does some other shit and suddenly those people will be hearing “don’t know why you’re complaining”. Cycle continues.

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            I’m not sure. Normally, most users would come back as you describe. But if the lack of mods gets too serious, then most users will begin to get bored or annoyed. If other platforms scale up well, boredom translates into “I heard about…”