Welcome muhyb, welcome.
Come sit down and rest. We have vintage memes on draught. There are many refugees here. It is good.
Thanks. Old memes are better anyway.
I work in IT and the forums for that are the only reason I still have an account. But I rarely use it and will delete when hopefully the Lemmy community grows to include those as well
Depends on what area of IT you’re in as to whether or not this is even relevant, but have you seen the https://programming.dev/ Lemmy instance?
Maybe it’s accelerating? I just learned of this migration and immediately made an account. I hated the old reddit mods for stymying conversation by removing everything that didn’t fit that individuals narrative. I was actually pro API changes because it pissed off reddit mods. Do you want Lemmy to be like reddit was in terms of moderation? I don’t want a cesspool like twitter; I do want people to be less remove/ban heavy.
I’ll migrate here permanently if I can get a version of reddit where the idiots who only care about jokes and upvotes stay over there.
No, definitely don’t want it to be like reddit with bans and removes. There’s a down vote button for a reason, so I think communities moderate themselves with that. Down voted comments will remain, just at the bottom of threads so people can see. I also hate some of the rules regarding what type of questions to post and some posts getting removed because they broke a rule. Again, down votes and comments can steer the OP in the right direction. The only thing I want migrating from reddit is the scope: the fact that every hobby, brand and platform had a universal forum was nice.
“deleted”
I clicked a link that brought me to reddit yesterday, and you know ehat i noticed on the 5 month old thread? A bunch of deleted user names but the comments and info shared was still there under deleted
They deleted their account without deleting the comment. It has always been this way in my experience.
This is illegal, at least under the GDPR, so Reddit could be sued about that.
Disclaimer: I’m no lawyer, so this is no legal advice and I could be wrong.
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My understanding is that it is only illegal if the information is personally identifiable… and posting such was against the rules anyway.
It still pisses me off that they decided to rate limit comment edits/deletes just as everyone was making the exodus.
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But the grace period for crying about crying about Reddit isn’t.
Who made you the authority on crying
The Lemmy Elders
Based.
But on a serious note I was getting really sick of reddit (especially the default/large subs) even before this debacle with third party apps. But I am not sure how much it’s me that have changed and how much it’s actually reddit having changed. I guess it’s a bit/a lot of both.
f7u12 was a long time ago now
I don’t know how anyone used Reddit without unsubscribing from the default subs. There was just so much stupid stuff…
(I see the irony of saying this in shitposts… but I’ll probably unsubscribe from here too when it gets bigger)
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When I was younger, I had so much more free time to argue with detail-oriented people who would quote my whole post but with interruptions to nitpick each sentence.
Now I’m like “well now they’re just deliberately not getting it.”
The fact that Reddit can still tell you that the user deleted their account is proof that not all of that user’s data in their systems are deleted. It may just be a flag in an account that marks them as “deleted”, and so whenever data about that account is being retrieved, their API server will look at that flag, and tell the recipient that the account is “deleted”. People in the software industry calls this “soft deletion”.
I learned in SQL class that you never ever hard delete data when there is any alternative. On Facebook and Twitter you get a whole month to change your mind before your account can’t be recovered.
And even then they probably still have your account, just won’t tell you they do.
AWS is the same. Literally unable to delete an account as you have to wait for 30 days after terminating the account.
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I’ve wondered about this quite a bit. If I were a fucking asshole like spez and wanted to defeat edit/delete scripts, I would set it so there’s 2 entries, one is the original comment and a second column for an edited value. Everytime there’s an edit update the 2nd one.
I had the idea to start all my comments with gibberish, and then edit with my actual comment, but that got a little tedious lol.
Depending on how their database schema’s designed, editing might not actually help. Some designs are made to track every change, so edits will just end up being a row in the database, and lookbacks can be super easy. For example, you might just have to ask the database to give you what a comment looked like at a given time.
Bruh I logged into my Spotify account and it reactivated the Facebook account I had requested be deleted a more than a year prior
mumble mumble gdpr mumble
TBH It was a fun journey, but sadly all good things must come to an end. And now it is up to us, the Lemmy community to create a fun place for others.
Im lowkey loving this site way more. the option to switch servers and go to smaller communities is sick to me
Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/watch?v=mEgk2qM7kxU&themeRefresh=1
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source, check me out at GitHub.
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You can ask for a data request from Reddit. That way you’ll get everything you did as a text file (csv).
Thanks, just submitted mine
People say it usually takes a couple days but mine took like 10 days (probably because many people started asking for data request after the API announce) so don’t worry if it takes long. Good luck.
I was expecting a bit of a wait even before you shared your experience, but they’ve already fulfilled my request-- it finished about 4 hours ago. So, they turned it around in less than 24hr! Maybe they’ve streamlined the process.
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Just deleted mine after seeing this. My reason for leaving comment: “Pee pee poo poo”
Well said!
That’s about as good a reason for deleting an account as I’ve ever seen.
“Their reason for leaving was urine and feces?”
230k karma, 0 posts in Q3 2023. Fuck you spez
190k karma, 0 posts, 0 comments.
Changed every 2,8k comments to “Fuck u/spez” before deleting it. Just in case they get restored.
Used PowerDeleteSuite if anyone is wondering.
Has anyone tried the search function on reddit lately? Its broken (moreso than usual)
I was a member of reddit for 15 years and accumulated 150K in karma. 1 week ago, I was shadowbanned - probably because I suggested kbin.social multiple times. No reason, no warning - just total ban. I can still logon but nobody else can see my posts or history. F**kers.
Probably a good thing. Means they can’t undelete/unedit your posts even after you deleted your account or edited your posts.
Sure they can. It’s not like the data is gone.
I still have 1 last account to visit reddit.
And those subs I like to view (because they are all nudes duh) are NSFW tagged, no account means I cannot view. Lemmy’s are meidocre and filled with left wing’s agenda everywhere duh.
