Reddit Migration

Yep, this is what the future of awards on Reddit looks like

The website has been knocking it out of the park for popular decisions lately /s

We all know this is happening with Reddit gold, however I thought it would be relevant to point out that there has been fallout amongst Reddit Premium subscribers.

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Edited a word

Recently, Reddit announced that they may be discontinuing awards/coins on September 12. However I'm skeptical and I think this may be just a deceptive announcement for them to make a quick buck from awards/coins. What are your opinions on this?

If you recall reddits growth many of their communities evolved as offshoots of a single generic community. This made it easier for people to see discussions they normally would not get involved in, and once the posts in a similar category reached critical mass it moved to a sub Reddit.

I think people are recreating their niche communities here but they are floundering since the user base is still pretty small. Maybe it’s best to post to the “big” communities until the time is right to move to smaller, targeted communities?

https://github.com/andrewbanchich/shreddit

I opened terminal with my comment.csv put in the desktop

1. I did cargo install shreddit

2. Then made the reddit app credentials

3. Then did shreddit --username YouRedditUsername --password YourSuperSecretPassword123 --client-id clientidreplace --client-secret clientsecretreplace --gdpr-export-dir ~/Desktop/comments.csv

With the relevant information replaced with my own. But after I click enter nothing more happens like a message saying deleting or anything like that. Just cursor blinking. So do I just leave it alone or did something go wrong?

Update : Using the shreddit-linux file ended up working for me. On Linux to run it I had to right click it then go to properties and then allow executable. Then to run it in terminal I had to go to the directory shreddit-linux was in and type ./shreddit-linux.

Also, you have to make sure you extract all the GDPR files together. If it is missing one it needs you get an error, so after some error messages extracting everything fixed it for me and got it to start deleting.

Today I just noticed, after trying to convert a reddit link (from this sub!), that teddit is no longer working.

We all knew this was coming. Even so...

Reddit could be working on a Contributor program, letting top contributors earn real-world money from the gold and karma they receive.

It took several weeks but I finally got my Reddit data export for my account. If it wasn't already obvious, the direct messages there are not encrypted in any meaningful way. One interesting variable I found was in the file named "statistics", there's a variable named "is_deleted" which is set to false. This makes me wonder if, when you "delete" your account, they just flip this variable to disable login but still retain all of your user data. The file names are pretty self explanatory on what they contain, but the if you're curious, the files in the export are:

account_gender.csv
approved_submitter_subreddits.csv
chat_history.csv
checkfile.csv
comment_headers.csv
comments.csv
comment_votes.csv
drafts.csv
filelist.txt
friends.csv
gilded_comments.csv
gilded_posts.csv
hidden_posts.csv
ip_logs.csv
linked_identities.csv
linked_phone_number.csv
message_headers.csv
messages.csv
moderated_subreddits.csv
multireddits.csv
poll_votes.csv
post_headers.csv
posts.csv
post_votes.csv
reddit_gold_information.csv
saved_comments.csv
saved_posts.csv
scheduled_posts.csv
statistics.csv
subscribed_subreddits.csv
twitter.csv
user_preferences.csv

Many are turning to Lemmy as a viable Reddit alternative. Here is how to use your existing Mastodon account with Lemmy.

I ran into the profile limit so no more comments show up, but they are still on reddit with the csv file having links to the ones that haven't been deleted. There's too much for me to do it manually so would appreciate help if there's some tool to automate the process.

Reddit account.....deleted. Kbin seems to have a better "signal to noise" ratio IYKWIM

#RedditMigration

I don't know if Reddit is just trying to be a dick or what, but as I started to delete some comments, I'm not able to see any comments in my profile "hasn't commented on anything", but if I visit actual posts where I've commented, I can clearly see my comments there.

Does anyone know what's going on? Not even Redact or Power Delete Suite can see those comments, either :/

Data shows the micro-blogging website has been shedding users since early 2023, not long after Elon Musk’s takeover

im currently migrated here if you wondering why i got banned here is context:
im was posting reaction images on r/gachalifecringe and reaction images was this:
Child porn text:https://preview.redd.it/does-anybody-have-that-image-with-big-silver-letters-that-v0-t5mn9g9k54ma1.jpeg?width=1067&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5ee509679c7dd214e2398bc271e86e9348ceafa1
big jack horner holding child porn text orb
live gun reaction
and finally a horrifed man
after i posted this reddit banned me for sexulatizing (sorry i dont know spell this word) minors.
there was nothing wrong with it was child porn text sign, there is was no nude minor or something, i didnt promote child porn, WTF reddit why you banned i didnt nothing
(btw sorry for if im made bad english here)

I want to be able to just click the link from the home page like link aggregators...

When the whole Reddit fiasco started happening, I saw a lot of people wiping and deleting their Reddit accounts and moving elsewhere, like here on Lemmy.

Now that it's starting to die down a little bit, does anyone regret doing that? Or are you glad that you took that step?

You can't sign up directly on !worldnews as registration is not enabled.

You could subscribe the main magazine on Kbin.social or Lemmy.world though

Is there some script, addon or something that will take data from GDPR request and delete content, especially comments, one by one? redact had this capability, but it's not working now

update: https://github.com/andrewbanchich/shreddit worked, removed 9500 comments after 18h or so

TL;DR: even if your delete script confirms a full wipe and your Reddit profile page shows zero comment, there may still be comments left over (that you can find through a search engine and delete manually on Reddit).

Weeks ago, I used redact.dev to delete all my Reddit comments (thousands of them over 10+ years). Redact.dev confirmed a full wipe, and my Profile > Comments page on Reddit confirmed I had no comment left.

Yet, as of today, Google still returns dozens of results for “$myredditusername site:reddit.com”. It’s not just Google’s crawler lagging; when I follow those links, those comments are still visible on the Reddit website, under my username, where I have the ability to manually delete them.

Thankfully, I hadn't yet nuked my account, because I knew of other users whose deleted comments got reinstated (although that was thought to be caused by the deletion script exceeding the API rate limit; supposedly a different case, as those missed comments would still show in the Profile page).

spez: edited for clarity.

I don't think many people understand that if they use Lemmy or kbin, they are posting to the fediverse. There are other platforms and will be more to come. Referring to a post on "Lemmy" or "kbin" is like saying you saw a post on your Windows or Mac computer.

We should be referring to it as...

• I saw it on the fediverse.
• Hey fediverse users ...
• A thread on the fediverse...

New terms may emerge but referring to the platform seems weird, almost ignorant.

edit: A better example is email. You wouldn't assume everyone is on Hotmail because that is the email provider you use. You say I'm sendingan eamail, not I'm sending a Hotmail.