1y ago

Thanks Spez!

but TBH i also wiped all my comments clean using powerdeletesuite

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Ask here in lemmy.
I posted a question a couple of days ago in Windows 98 community. After submitting the post, I noticed last post submitted was 2 years ago.
I felt down and thought about deleting the post but to my surprise I got an answer in an hour or so.
- Posted a question to lemdro.id last week and sofar only got useless bot replies that seemed to have scrolled previous reddit posts about the same question.
  edit: to fix bad phone autocorrect.
  
  I’m not expecting the same results to be always similar to my experience or at least positive.
  Also, I’d stick to popular instances since I’d expect moderators to be stricter than random instances when it comes to bots.
  Some communities decided to have a separate instance such as piracy iirc.

So all you're saying is that deleting your posts to get the engagement down works perfectly?

A few days after the API changes were announced, a massive number of old-reddit pages were archived. Technically-minded people should have no issue finding the original comments.
- And the traffic doesn't go to reddit, which is exactly what we want.
- Unfortunately, this comment is only 4 months old, which means it isn't in the data that is separated nicely in individual subreddit files. Instead it requires parsing through a massive 151GB file. Let's see how long it takes me to get the edited comments.
  
  It's been two minutes now. How's it going?
- Bold to assume most people going to Reddit for answers to questions are technically-minded.
  
  I got more help on r/selfhosted and c/selfhosted than I did on Traefik's own forums
  
  This guy’s taking a screenshot of a thread on r/HomeAssistant looking for advice on how to reverse proxy multiple services at their gateway router so they can access their self-hosted HomeAssistant and NextCloud from different subdomains at the same IP address.
  Pretty sure they’re a technical user.
  But yeah in general it sucks but I’d consider Reddit a dead resource at this point. But, if you do find content there that is useful, REPOST IT HERE. Let’s make this place useful for nontechnical users!
  
  I do, it's usually nice to have voted users' opinions of niche subreddits on pros and cons of different tools. Fi first search usually is "some problem I am having", after 5-10 minutes, the second one is "some problem I am having reddit".
  It's nice to see recommendations done by real humans of their personal preferences instead of 5-6 blog posts, those shitty versus pages that show nothing or closed SO questions because the answers are opinionated.
  
  sometimes you can find answer to things that aren't even answered in stack overflow but answered in reddit. that was one of the things which made me use reddit at one point. hope lemmy create that kinda community here too.

- [-] thunderbox666 « 1 point 2 months ago
  Pretty much any subdomain will go to the nginx server and it will only do something if youve configured that subdomain in the config - everything else just gets ignored, or you can setup a catchall to handle all the unconfigured stuff
  so you will need something like this (might not be exact, been a long time since i had to configure NGINX haha)
  undefined
  
  server { server_name ha.mydomain.duckdns.org; location / { proxy_pass http://hostnameOrIP1:port1; } } server { server_name nextcloud.mydomain.duckdns.org; location / { proxy_pass http://hostnameOrIP2: port } }
  an easier way would be to use Nginx Proxy Manager which gives you a nice GUI to add and manage all the sites.
  
  To add to an answer, caddy is better fit for reverse proxy in my opinion. It's like easier to configure version of nginx. With nginx proxy_pass you also have to configure other headers like x_forwarded_to, and you will also need to do some magic to get websockets working.
  And also caddy automatically generates certs using ACME, by default.
- Thanks!
- sharing actual text makes it searchable and easier to archive for the future
- [-] thunderbox666 « 1 point 2 months ago Anything that has a web service, such as nextcloud or home assistant, can be setup on a domain or sub domain
  So you would setup the domain (for example let's say you have myhome. duckdns.org) to point to your server running nginx reverse proxy, and then configure all your services in there
  So you might setup homeassistant.myhome.duckdns.org and point it to the internal address you use for home assistant, eg http://192.168.1.15:8123
  Then you might add nextcloud as nextcloud.myhome.duckdns.org to point to https://192.168.1.15 These can all be on the same machine as nginx reverse proxy or on another machine all together
  Some of these services might also need extra configuration but most will also have guides on their site on what you need to configure to work with a reverse proxy
- Damn this is incredibly convenient, I was just playing around trying to setup a home server the past few days and this was exactly what I've been looking for.

LMAO I'm dying.
I wonder how many people did this. I did, and deleted my posts as well. But I was mostly a lurker there and so my edits and deletes didn't really mean anything.
- I did it to over 85000 comments across 6 accounts
  
  Guess Big Jim is fitting.
  
  For what reason did you have 6 accounts?
- I did my own script for it. Most were deleted, a few recent ones were left edited.
  It does suck for someone who wanted anything useful I posted, but ultimately I think Reddit having it to draw any traffic is more harmful. I want them to lose their stranglehold now that they're abusing it.
- I changed mine to the vaporeon copypasta

This is why I haven't touched any of my own comments
- Me as well. I've been in situations where complete strangers online have answered and helped me so many times regarding problems I've had, so I've tried to return the favor through reddit and other platforms. I have no intention of doing this, this is just... mean IMO. You open the link in hope of finding an answer and you run into... this 😒.
  
  While as a user it sucks that is exactly the reasons people do it. It takes the value away from reddit, if the content that users want to see it not there people will not go there.
  What I find the best compromise is users that take their comments they had on reddit and post them again as it's own post to lemmy with the context needed. While not perfect the information is at least not lost completely and a google search in the future might actually bring someone to a lemmy instance instead of to a corporation like reddit. But that is obviously a lot of work to do, especially if you have lot of helpful comments on reddit.
  
  This is the only effective way to protest reddit, though.
  
  As someone who helped to generate those types of answers and then deleted them all.
  Fuck Reddit, they didn't pay me for that work and then they dicked me over in chase of a half penny. Sorry the rest of the world doesn't get to use my work for free, but Reddit broke the agreement. I post content, they provide a good user experience. They failed their end, I rescinded mine.
  
  I agree. It's really annoying that now a bunch of incredibly helpful information has disappeared. This might hurt Reddit but it also hurts everyone else who might have benefited from it.
  
  Every comment should have a reason why it is like this

The Home Assistant community is very responsive and can help with this kind of stuff if you can't find the answers you need just from searching around.
https://community.home-assistant.io/

To answer the question...
Yes. You can do that. Quite easily. Just need a reverse proxy. I prefer traefik. Nginx is the most commonly used option here.
- Caddy is the quickest to setup, IMO
- I'll second traefik.
  
  I'll dissent here and point out that Traefik is much more difficult to set up. The documentation is not great and it's just a far more complicated process. I'm actually still on Traefik 2.x because I just flat out don't have the time to re-learn everything for 3.x.
- May I ask what you prefer about traefik over nginx? I've been using nginx for a long time, so I'm just curious.
  
  Integrates REALLY well/extremely easily with docker/kubernetes. (Which- is where 98% of my reverse proxy usage is)
  Although, even the services I don't have running in my k8s cluster... are still proxied through the traefik in my k8s cluster, as I really enjoy the manifest-based configuration and deployments.
  
  I like Nginx too. I'm familiar with the config syntax since I've been using it for a long time, and it's useful being able to use the same software for both reverse proxies and for regular websites.
  I have a bunch of config snippets in /etc/nginx/snippets/ for things like a base proxy config, secure TLS settings (eg for things that aren't public-facing, I only enable TLS 1.3), WordPress sites, etc that I just import where needed. Most of the config is in reusable snippets.

I've done the exact same thing on 2 accounts. There was some good information on them but now it's a bunch of gibberish.

FYI you’re looking for a reverse proxy. There are addons for HA that handle that, such as NGINX Proxy Manager.
- I just scratched my screen for 1 min trying to remove the "hair" over your profile picture 😗
  
  😘

but TBH i also wiped all my comments clean using powerdeletesuite
Same here! “No IPOs without APIs” is what I spread around 14 years of active Reddit use. Let it sit a few weeks to get backed up a few times and then erased it all.

You didn't wipe your comments, you only created a new version. And if you deleted them, it's only a soft delete. Reddit still holds your data. I proved this by doing a gdpr request and received stuff I'd wiped and deleted four years before.
- GDPR also allows you to do a data deletion request.
  
  Not necessarily deletion, anonymization would free your info from any GDPR requirements and Reddit couldn't care less if your username is there or not
  
  Ah yes, the "Right to be forgotten"
  You are correct, of course. However, they are well within their rights to not delete your data. Look up "Legitimate interest" - it's a huge GDPR loophole and widely abused. (Certainly in charity fundraising in which I used to work)
  The LI can be for their own business purposes, including profiling, machine learning and of course, advertising.
  It can also, and usually is, need to keep data in case they receive a legal order to provide it. In the event of Reddit being used for terrorism purposes (which I'm sure it has, along with every other messaging platform), they will be required to produce that information. Which they can't if it's gone.
  We wave the GDPR around like it solves all our problems. And whilst it does add a huge amount of public protection and it's impressive it made it into law given those objecting to it, it does not give you the right to your own data above all else.
- That's not true. I edited (nearly) all my comments. Then did a GDPR request. All the comments I touched were overwritten in there.
  I didn't catch all of them though, it's damn tough to get every single one. If you just go through your profile page by page they don't show all. If you select "Top" comments you find more. If you select "Controversial" you find even more and so on. So I only managed to overwrite maybe 95% or something, but it's good enough.
  Oh and they also have caching and spam protection. So you have to slowly overwrite comments, about one comment every 3 seconds or you get rate limited. And directly after overwriting the comment it might still show up in the old version till their caching servers catch up. So maybe you thought you overwrote your comments, but in reality the requests failed in the background because you went too fast.
  
  Whilst I totally understand your comments and even appreciate them, I still believe I am right.
  About four years ago I used NukeReddit - a similar script that loads your comment history, edits each posts, replaces the text with nonsense and saves it. Then deletes the post. I did that because someone got close to identifying me IRL and I didn't want them to, and wanted to tidy up my own data leakage.
  After that, I continued using Reddit until the recent nonsense when I decided to leave to good. First, I used Power Delete, repeating it over several days to delete thousands of comments and hundreds of posts. About a week after that, I submitted a GDPR data request. Another week, I deleted my account. About a week after /that/, I received the GDPR response containing several CSV files containing my data. That included posts and comments I'd made from 11 years ago when I had created that account.
  That data had survived two quite thorough scrubs and deletions, and whilst I no longer have access to that account, I believe my data and my account are still there - just unavailable to me.
  I do know a little about data and databases, and in many mature projects, deleting posts simply sets an is_deleted column with the date it's deleted. Editing a message simply creates a copy of that message, sets the original as is_deleted with a date, and sets the copy with the edited text. That's standard and honestly, I don't know why Reddit would not do that.
  Also consider that Reddit may be under a legal obligation NOT to delete data. If there is a criminal investigation at a later date, they will need to be able to provide that information. "Sorry Mr Government, we deleted Bin Laden's posts where he incited terrorism to dozens of other suspects" is not going to be received well.
  The bottom line is that only Reddit architects will know for certain, but I'd put real money on betting that I'm right.#

Time to buy stock in Stack Overflow, I guess.
- I wouldn't. That place is its own dumpster fire.
- Better short it.

If anyone is interested in the actual answer, they are basically suggesting
<REDACTED>
which is really cleaver and will solve OP's situation

We got a jabberrer!

These are the ten words of wisdom right there.

This is how I want to see more reddit posts. You mess with our favorite apps, we remove our helpful comments.

this is why i didn't edit my comments before deleting my account

Damnit! I just went to check some old posts I made to see if Redact had deleted my comments before I deleted my account and it didn't...

Nuking your comments doesn't hurt Reddit or Spez, it just hurts other users who are looking for the answers that you gave. If you want to leave Reddit, it's better to just leave
- As I posted in response to another comment along these lines:
  While as a user it sucks that is exactly the reasons people do it. It takes the value away from reddit, if the content that users want to see it not there people will not go there.
  What I find the best compromise is users that take their comments they had on reddit and post them again as it’s own post to lemmy with the context needed. While not perfect the information is at least not lost completely and a google search in the future might actually bring someone to a lemmy instance instead of to a corporation like reddit. But that is obviously a lot of work to do, especially if you have lot of helpful comments on reddit.
- By hurting potential users looking for the naswrdz you've diminished the usefulness of the site.
  It's a long play. frankly nobody wins and everyone loses.
  
  I don't care if nobody wins, I just want spez to lose
  
  the naswrdz
  The only answer I’m looking for is how did you manage this typo 😉
  (Also, you’re right)
- If one of their goals is to sell premium access to train LLMs this type of gibberish would hurt that. When you can't guarantee that the data source is coherent, then that would have an impact on the final model that is created.
  I think a better approach is to transfer comments to a new platform or create new higher quality content. Could the solution to this problem become a guide that goes into more detail?
- the point is to devalue Reddit so people won't go there. And if people don't go to Reddit anymore, who do you think it's gonna hurt?

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