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Murdoch Alive Check was just an amusing programming project that made me laugh that I made for reddit before they tripped and fell face-first into the pavement.

It's a pretty simple bot. It checks Wikipedia to see if Murdoch's entry has a death date. Then it randomly combines two sentence fragments in an attempt to create a funny post title if Murdoch is still alive.

What made this project great in my mind was that it took advantage of reddit's subreddit settings to, if Murdoch died, sticky a post and set the sub to restricted. The bot would thank everyone for their participation, and then the bot would exit. It was set to randomly post anywhere from every 1.5 and 4 days so it would be randomized, and feel more organic.

The subreddit was totally self-contained, it was a "set-it-and-forget-it" project. I tried to open the community here and a bot started making dozens of posts a day from reddit to this community. So I had to set it to mod-posts only which kind of killed the original idea. But I will find another way to make it work, but the project is moving to another instance.

Join me over here if you're interested! [email protected]

I decided to set up my own instance to give me more control over my lemmy experience. But I had already subscribed to lots of communities on several other instances.

What is the quickest and easiest way to transfer all those subscriptions over so that I can view them in my own instance?

Just saw a post on reddit alternatives and there was a comment inviting users to laguna.chat. I went and checked it out and the trending communities list included, 'jews did 911', 'killnirs', 'hitler was right', and 'Fuck Nirs'. One of the user accounts was u/HangNi***rs.

Hey Laguna Chat, get your shit together.

Edit: markdown defeated me again. I think you can figure out what those words are.

In the old days, official reddit announcement posts were a little different. Spuds, or another high-level admin would reply to a comment. Dozens of users would then reply with something like "When are you going to ban r/the_donald." The threads were massive and quickly became unwieldy, but they seemed organic.

Once reddit started hiring admins who don't seem to really know what reddit is, I started to notice a new trend. By now it's moved on from a trend to a template or better yet, an archetype.

Here is the archetypal pattern to an official Reddit announcement post in 2023:

1. Reddit makes an announcement that is downvoted below 20%.
2. The individual admin making the announcement (sometimes) litters the post with cringe gifs and meme-speak in a ham-fisted attempt to break the ice.
3. This admin will only be authorized to speak on the topic of the post but will be asked about a range of items.
4. The admin will answer 4-8 questions, mostly praise or comments with a neutral or positive tone.
5. The admin replies will mostly be downvoted well into the double digits.
6. After answering a few questions, often without ever replying to any follow-up questions, the admin vanishes as the thread is overwhelmed with criticism and ridicule.

In a short time, reddit will announce a new contributor program that will use some kind of crypto currency to allow users to pay other users for content. If recent patterns hold, and we all know they will, there will be aspects of this program that are surfaced in the comments of the announcement. These aspects will be alarming or concerning in some way and will highlight ways in which bad actors could exploit the feature. It will be clear that reddit had not considered these items raised by users and did not adequately interact with their userbase prior to the feature announcement to ensure the smoothest possible launch.

Reddit management doesn't seem to fuly understand that the freedom they grant their mods to build and manage their communities -- which is the entire reason that users come to the site so that they can be marketed to -- creates a much higher bar for communication and interaction around site architecture and feature changes with those mods / users. The pattern has been repeating for years: new features are rolled out half-baked, are not highly adopted. Admins are disincentivized to iterate on these features because of the low adoption rates. The feature is then abandoned or deprecated.

The last announcement post on r/modnews by the VP of community was the worst example since 2015 when Victoria was fired. Reddit, inc has done nothing to mitigate the anger, they haven't even apologized, without which no healing could ever happen.

And the next announcement post will be no different...

Standby.

I was just browsing a thread on c/nfl looking for new mods. There were multiple 12+ year Redditors there offering to help.

Got me wondering. There are 14,000 of us in this community. How many of us are ten year plus users who have just had enough?

Edit: I didn't expect this post to be as poignant as it became. There are so many of you... I can't reply to everyone. I'm an 11 year user and have modded something like 150 subs over the years. I'm really sad too, but I'm finding that lemmy has most of the content I'm looking for, just needs more comments.

The API was a big blow, but removing awards on past posts and deleting coin balances is really dumb.

It's been a rough day. First I tried the lemmy-easy-deploy script because, hey, I'm lazy. That failed, so I then tried the ansible playbook and had some success with it. At first, Let's Encrypt was not working, and I had to sort out my dynamic dns provider.

Once that was sorted the playbook was running well, encryption was working properly, then I got an error that the docker didn't support arm v7 architecture. I then updated to Bullseye, Raspbian 11 and got a similar error that docker didn't support arm v8 architecture.

So what os do I need to be running on this pi to install an instance on it?

The browser tab is blank, and unless I'm doing something wrong there is no Favicon set for Lemmy.World. I would hazard a guess that most of us have lots and lots of tabs open at any given time. Would it be possible to add an icon to help make it easier to locate lemmy.world tabs?

I'm new to lemmy, only been here a few days, but I have already ported over one of my reddit bots to Lemmy and it was really easy, like orders of magnitude easier than it was to get my first reddit bot working.

There are lots of wrappers available and I am researching everything to figure out how best to proceed with a more serious bot. Most of my scripts for reddit were moderation tools. Lemmy doesn't seem large enough to need a lot of moderation yet, but I still want to get to work creating things because it's fun.

I'm finding documentation scarce in some cases so I just wanted to pose a question here. On reddit, if I want to look at posts (or comments, reports, modqueue, and so on) I iterate through a listing and then narrow my search based on what type of post I need.

Does Lemmy use listings, or how do you process posts/comments in the same fashion as you'd do over there?

I haven't had to take any mod actions yet because I don't have any reports, so I haven't really explored any of the mod actions via the api.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1661747

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1660712

The hits just keep coming.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1660712

The hits just keep coming.

The hits just keep coming.

c/MurdochAliveCheck takes a Fair and Balanced look at Rupert Murdoch's alive status and whether he still has his thumb on democracy, trying to erase it from the page.

u/MurdochAliveCheckBot will check periodically and report its findings to the subreddit. View the inner workings of the bot here. (I will be moving this off reddit asap.)

Community members are encouraged to add their own link or text posts with relevant updates or their own thoughts and feelings about Rupert Murdoch and his evil media empire.

Joke writers for the bot will be given mod status. Please message me if you have ideas for things for the bot to say.

Please join the community and contribute if so inclined! Thank you.