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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Can't wait for all the NSFW subs to remove the NSFW tags

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Ahahaha I love malicious compliance. I sincerely hope they do that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well sadly they did end the message with: "Lastly, if you suddenly begin to post, or approve content that features sexually explicit content to your community in order to justify the NSFW label, we will immediately remove and permanently suspend moderators who have participated in this action.". So I think they will just, yet again, remove 'non-compliant' mods.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Can confirm, was removed from /r/StarWarsDadJokes together with the other mods that way. I regret nothing, I'm not going back anyway.

It's funny that that sub is now completely inaccessible due to being unmoderated. So.. Mission Accomplished? xD

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This is the petty shit I would do

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

One "or else", please.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I hope this all does them in.

I anxiously check news headlines each day hoping to see that reddit is canceling their IPO.

I can't wait until their valuation is sub-$1B down from a $10B peak.

Fuck Steve Huffman.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's definitely financial damage and I don't know how spez still has a job but it would take a long-running war to drive numbers down enough and I don't see that happening personally. Unfortunate but it is what it is

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It doesn't matter what happens to reddit for me anymore. The best, most anti authoritarian users left for the fediverse. I've been getting pretty sick of reddit and this exodus means there's enough userbase here to replace it for my use case.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Glad me and the others could help! :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dear god that's unsettling.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It’s the lack of a soul behind his eyes.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

remember when that one subreddit did the snap and banned half their users? the mods should do that again

[–] Minish 2 points 1 year ago

I don't get why people don't protest in other ways. You could easily scare reddit financially by sending mail to their advertisers saying "Hi! We're protesting reddit and their advertisers for Reddit's changes on API"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

"Do as we say or we won’t let you do free work us any more!"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Glad I haven’t looked back since leaving. I do need to delete my profiles though. Was still having hope

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I spent 10 years on that site. I’m not sure I can bring myself to delete all my comments and the profile itself.

I haven’t logged in since Apollo died though

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why let them have all that content you provided though? Don't get me wrong what you all do with your accounts is your business. I'm not about to be that person that comes barging in with "YOU NEED TO DELETE YOUR ACCOUNT", but if it helps lend any credibility to what I have to say - I was on there for over a decade with over 150k karma (99% of that comment karma so I participated a lot in discussions over the years) and as difficult as it was, I deleted my post/comment history and then my account. I don't want to support them by allowing them to profit off of my free labor/efforts.

Not saying every single comment I made was gold or worth much, but if it helps them to pump up their numbers for advertisers/stockholders then I'd just as soon remove my contribution.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I tried, but it didn't take. The comment deletions were all restored the next day. I haven't asked for the account to be deleted, but I think that still leaves behind all the comment history.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Use one of the scripts that overwrites your comments first. Just deleting doesn't help one bit.

They also rate limit you to one action every 1.5 seconds or something.

[–] Lemmyfunbun 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What is the app that does that?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

There are several ways. If you want to overwrite and delete:

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/10905-reddit-overwrite-extended/code (This runs as a script in your browser over a plugin, like Greasy Fork, you install the JavaScript Plugin, add the script code, navigate to your comments and let it work).

For just overwriting without deleting.. haven't found something good yet. I adapted the script above for it and it took a while.

There is also shreddit, but it has more setup: https://github.com/x89/Shreddit

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't think I'll delete my account or comments. There's a lot of memories there. I've said a lot of nice things to nice people. Reddit was one of the places I grieved for my father. And I didn't have my act together enough to download my comment/post history before the third-party export tools stopped working.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I respect your decision, but I also wish to write that your experiences are yours, and nobody can take that away from you. Lately, I have been working to take pictures of items I don't need anymore to help me remove things I don't need from my life as a way to hold the experience but let go of the object.

This is not advice, only, know that nobody owns your experiences but you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I like they just force them to remove the label instead of just changing their own rules about where ads show up.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Those rules are probably set by advertisers, not be reddit themselves.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And the advertisers are gonna be pissed when their products show up next to genitals on a “now SFW” subreddit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I really don't get that mentality as an advertiser. Lotta people looking at porn. Lotta potential for your ads to be seen. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

In the US, at least, you have a significant portion of the population with a puritanical bent. To top it off, they're extremely vocal, political, and organized.

Right or wrong, advertisers are terrified of angering these people.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Serious why don’t the mod team just agree on an alternative like lemmy and move there?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Some of them have

However, “the mod team” is a diverse and fragmented group with many individuals across Reddit

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The longer they keep this up the worse it is for the IPO, I'm not complaining

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It's fun watching them stick around to be a thumb in spez's eye.