I'm still struggling with whether or not I'm going to astroturf my comment history
I kinda feel like it does more harm to people just looking for answers than it ever will to Spez if I were to remove it
Here's what I recommend to have the best of both worlds, while still taking advantage of mass editing tools.
Create a magazine or two on kbin specifically just to hold your content.
Copy it over and paste it into your mags.
Mass edit your content on reddit with the usual message, but also include a link to your kbin profile. Folks who want to see the useful content can still find it that way.
But the niche ones are the ones most likely to shutdown or move
The issue with commenters like this is it is hard to tell who is real and who is an astroturfer.
We recently had a reveal of one. See https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/92172/Why-Reddit-and-u-spez-must-win and the followup at https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/121064/You-are-winning
Now all this content is unhelpful because the sub is private
You could try sending a modmail to see if the mod will give you access to the sub so you can see your own content, or send you a copy of a specific post or comment.
or the original question context was deleted.
One thing to note is that this happened all the time on reddit as folks either deleted their question and throwaway account as soon as they got their answer. Other times folks would ask with their main account but used something like shreddit once a month. So this isn't exactly new to the protest.
When I move my content to its new home, I usually avoid naming the questioner and I briefly summarize their question/responses. This way the content has the added context to be understandable.
If the post is from Feb of this year or older and you forgot the context but want to save the content, you can search for the post in the pushshift torrents - if it was deleted as part of the protest then the pushshift torrent will have the original content in it and you can restore the context that way.
This really bums me out that all this energy and effort has gone to waste.
Additional effort is required to do what I do, but the result is that the effort has not gone to waste, instead folks who want it can view it on the fediverse.
There is something to be said about abandoning and moving on without burning the bridges in the process,
From my POV reddit burned those bridges.
rendering not only your content as useless,
It's not useless, it now serves to move people away from reddit. Remember, with reddit you never know when you will be permabanned - it seems to happen entirely at random nowadays.
but other people's as well
Mostly I've only seen three categories of this.
- A throwaway or an account not logged into for a while. The owner if still alive probably doesn't have the access to move it away anymore anyways.
- Content that is still present under "[deleted]" - person got hit by a 1k limit or something and missed deleting that before deleting the account.
- Content from a mod, who has't moved off yet as they're trying to hold onto the sub for the protest.
I figure I'm better off moving my content with context anyways, since that prevents the person in 1. or 3. from coming back and confusing the context.
The other thing I do when commenting is quoting extensively, that way the context is clear from my own comments.
Great metaphor for reddit HQ's handling of the protests!
TIHI stood for Thanks, I Hate It. I never browsed but figure it was a meme sub on things to dislike.
I'm sure users will step forward if they care.
This is the part I didn't quite get. Like I am sure that there were users who requested this sub in r/redditrequest after r/TIHI became unmoderated.
For some reason I don't understand, these requests did not pan out and it ended up getting shut down instead.
At the very least, users stepping forward doesn't seem to be enough on its own.
Wish I could participate in that. It's too late for me, sadly, I already did a mass delete.
TIHI was a fairly large sub, with almost multimilion level of subscribers. If reddit wanted to increase traffic and get more eyes on ads, they're doing quite a terrible job of it so far.
To all the folks saying that reddit couldn't replace the mods, that it was too big an effort, that they couldn't run a big sub all by themselves, I have only one thing to say to you.
You were right.
Ah, unfortunately reading through libreddit it seems like libreddit is also reliant on the API. so both will break on the same day.
Never used VPN, had a couple of active throwaways and those were not caught either. Oddly the message is "all your accounts" as in plural but it was only the one account.
Sadly, it wasn't the later. I never mentioned spez and didn't even know what the CEO's name or username was until the blackouts (i.e. after i got permabanned).
Accounts with 100,000+ karma are $200 and up, apparently. Source: savingadvice dot com /articles/2023/05/31/1089629sell-your-reddit-account.html
On playerup dot com /acconts/redditacconut/ I see one "rare account" that's 13 years old going for $120 and a 14 year old one for $150
Most are a few years old, just barely a few thousand karma, and $17-25.
So the reason r/bind has already jumped to an alternative is because they are affected the most and the hardest.
The other kind of communities today that you mentioned are less impacted, so they can continue .. for now.
I do hope though that the right groups of people are looking into creating the better alternatives right now. The day may come when reddit decides these subs are too much of a liability - or even just not enough of a money maker - and yanks them. And there's no reason to believe that reddit would give them even as much warning as r/blind had.
Emphasizing not a suggestion to move right away, but make sure these places can start establishing backups so they don't exist solely at the whim of reddit.
What's safereddit and how will it continue working past the API deadline?
Good on them for taking a stance!
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