Can I block posts about Reddit?
  • pterodactyl pterodactyl Now 100%

    Most of it is contained to specific forums, there's just more than one across a few instances, RedditMigration on Kbin is another.

    The more time I spend here the more I'm realising blocking communities/magazines is as much a key to a good experience as subscribing to them, of not more.

    It'll all die down anyway, to a degree there's just a lot of people here who just arrived from reddit. I'd avoid blocking the word itself as the wave will pass plus it's being used as a comparison in meta threads about features and UI and you might find you want to see those conversations.

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    /r/pics employing weaponised bureaucracy in the fight against Reddit
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    I don't think they want that, they have a month before they have to come back with something or you can escalate it to a supervising body. Imagine getting taken to court because redditors flooded your GDPR response process

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  • Life Cycle Emissions: EVs vs. Combustion Engine Vehicles
  • pterodactyl pterodactyl Now 100%

    It's not great is it? Reasonably we just need less vehicles

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  • "Initials" by "Florian Körner", licensed under "CC0 1.0". / Remix of the original. - Created with dicebear.comInitialsFlorian Körnerhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearKB
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    Upvotes/Downvotes and boosts being visible on posts.
  • pterodactyl pterodactyl Now 100%

    It not being visible is a relatively recent online phenomenon that I think has lead to some negative feedback loops on social media.

    I treat upvotes and downvotes like I used to treat thumbs up, or thanks, or kudos or whatever on much older platforms; a way to say "I agree" or "I disagree" without adding a crap comment that doesn't add to discussion.

    If you're using it as a way to vote on what other people get to see that's a reddit thing and this ain't reddit.

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  • Prigozhin says his forces "are turning our columns around," amid claims of deal brokered by Lukashenko
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    Some analysts are waiting to see a withdrawal before they actually believe one is happening.

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  • "Initials" by "Florian Körner", licensed under "CC0 1.0". / Remix of the original. - Created with dicebear.comInitialsFlorian Körnerhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearRE
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    First they came for /r/pics ... now Reddit are coming for the individual personal subreddits
  • pterodactyl pterodactyl Now 100%

    I'm willing to bet that they don't actually know when a sub went private, just whether or not it currently is. I also would not be surprised if the emails are automated but going out in batches to spread the workload dealing with replies.

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  • Young People Have No Idea What We Used to Do After Work. Let Me Regale You.
  • pterodactyl pterodactyl Now 100%

    "People with no boundaries or employment rights have no idea what we do after work" - In Europe we have a right to disconnect, everyone I know is more than able to use it. This is not a technology issue, this is a rights and culture issue.

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  • As Reddit Drama Continues, ActivityPub Growth Continues to Skyrocket
  • pterodactyl pterodactyl Now 100%

    ActivityPub is the underlying protocol both are built on - it's what allows posts from lemmy to propagate and be interacted with on kbin and mastodon users comment on both via their existing accounts. Think of it as like email protocol but for social media.

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    Alright gang! Let's solve this mystery!
  • pterodactyl pterodactyl Now 100%

    I'm not sure about over there but we can see who's been downvoting in the Kbin interface - more > activity > reduces

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  • Had anyone else completely forgotten about the time [u/spez got caught editing user comments](https://www.theverge.com/2016/11/23/13739026/reddit-ceo-steve-huffman-edit-comments)? [\#RedditMigration](https://kbin.social/tag/RedditMigration)

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    r/Blind's Meetings with Reddit and the Current Situation Regarding Accessibility and API Changes
  • pterodactyl pterodactyl Now 100%

    You misunderstand the use of quotations here, they're air quotes. Reddit has already met with an "expert" - the mods at r/blind would like them to meet with an accredited professional.

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  • r/Blind's Meetings with Reddit and the Current Situation Regarding Accessibility and API Changes
  • pterodactyl pterodactyl Now 100%

    I don't think accessibility is particularly good anywhere, but when software is open source, or failing that APIs free, people take things into their own hands and make it good. I read this in that context, even the fact Reddit would meet with community representatives rather than ask an "expert" is better than a lot of companies, though you would by the outcome if that is genuine or for optics.

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  • Mastodon thinks Lemmy’s privacy stinks. What say you?
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    The GDPR itself doesn't use the term organisation, it refers to data controllers and data processors.

    A “data controller” refers to a person, company, or other body which decides the purposes and methods of processing personal data.

    A “data processor” refers to a person, company, or other body which processes personal data on behalf of a data controller.

    As someone from within the EU working in data the fediverse is absolutely not a long way off having to consider this, GDPR impacts even the smallest businesses or voluntary groups - it's just how we handle data.

    To make it easier to grasp GDPR is about your rights over your data, those don't change depending on who is processing it, nor does the processors obligation, however what would be considered appropriate safeguards would scale with the size and intent of your organisation - it would be silly for my local shop to have a data protection officer.

    I suppose the question would become who is the controller, is it the person who provides the software or the person who provides the servers? Typically it's the servers.

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  • Why are conversations on Reddit often so hostile and toxic now days?
  • pterodactyl pterodactyl Now 100%

    Because Reddit got a reputation for being lenient on people who are toxic. I gave up on general, current affairs or regional subs a long time ago it's only smaller communities I'm leaving now.

    Think of r/incels or r/The_Donald, r/GenderCritical, r/NoNewNormal etc - and they're the examples from recent, more generally appealing years after the subs named after slurs were nuked. These are the subreddits that got mainstream attention, they may no longer be on Reddit, but their members are, and anyone who would be drawn to them is still signing up, on the other hand lots of people have been turned off the site by those associations. It's not just that there's lots of people joining the site, it's who those people are.

    In the same vein it's a really easy site to astroturf and there's no doubt in my mind that the "culture wars" are being stoked there because of it. Because there's a market for aged accounts for use in political astroturfing or general product shilling there are companies running the same shitty repost bots everywhere to produce them. It's a cycle that seems to be getting shorter and shorter.

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  • Did r/retrogaming mods get demodded for supporting the blackout?
  • pterodactyl pterodactyl Now 100%

    It's cool to see you here! Thanks for giving the full story. I still don't agree with the decision to open up against the community's wishes but I am glad that you chose to step back rather than being pushed to. I know the discord is there and I see people starting to come together on kbin/lemmy too so I hope we get a positive space in line with the ethics many of us share again soon.

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  • Domain registrar
  • pterodactyl pterodactyl Now 100%

    I use blacknight.com their support is unreasonably good, plus they're local to me.

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  • Did r/retrogaming mods get demodded for supporting the blackout?
  • pterodactyl pterodactyl Now 100%

    Oh for sure, I've already purged my accounts and I've no interest in going back, it's disappointing though, the same happened to r/emulation but I'm less mad about that, that's an open source community that dodgy people try to make money off, I'd prefer it be anti community than an outright scam which could reasonably happen if one of the more nefarious app devs had a chance to request it as an inactive forum.

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  • For those who don't know, retrogaming on Reddit was a labour of love, there is a multireddit, m/retrogamingnetwork that networks over 60 subreddits under one banner giving the audience, banner, and reach of a big subreddit to some very small and niche spaces. I bopped onto the main subreddit to grab their discord link for [https://sub.rehab/](https://sub.rehab/) and was amazed to see the sub open. There's a stickied post from "your new head mod" - they've made some changes already, ones that would stir debate if the userbase was still there to know about it: [Reveddit Link](https://www.reveddit.com/v/retrogaming/comments/14cenp0/quick_update_on_some_rules/) To quote the post opener: > > > First of all, you all know me probably at this point, but I’m Chalupacabra. We’re in the process of readjusting the mod team, so it’s not fully set up yet, but I’m your new head mod. It’s a process that’s been in the works for a bit now, I’m sure you’ve probably noticed some of the changes the team and I have put together to try to mix things up a bit based on what y’all told us you were interested in seeing. > > And if there's any doubts as to what the community "were interested in seeing" we had voted[ 88% in favour](https://imgur.com/58AH5Xp) of a total blackout. On the one hand I'm glad I don't have anything to miss on reddit anymore, I'm not interested in being part of communities run by people more interested in themselves than anyone else, but it's sad to see something that should have died peacefully be zombified instead.

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    Currently deleting 7 years of my time on Reddit across 4 accounts, holding back just the gilded comments to edit as a final fuck you. [\#RedditMigration](https://kbin.social/tag/RedditMigration)

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    At least for me, the API changes are just a final straw and something which mobilised enough redditors to make other platforms viable alternatives. Here are the reasons I won’t be going back: **[Removed by Reddit]** Admin power is misused. I’ve seen memes [Removed] where the only logic to their removal is if you’re a little bit of a bigot and are butthurt about it, or if you want to appeal to advertisers over actual people. In general, admin decisions seem less about people and more about business, how else do you wind up with a site where subs that exist to hurt people or put them down thrive openly but NSFW subs wind up a topic of debate or censure? Make no mistake this will go the YouTube direction, where things like LGBT content are determined not safe for advertisers. Having this in the context of a site known for cradling the manosphere and the incel movement and you can see where the dumpster fire is headed. Spez has no backbone so neither will Reddit. **The Advertising** It is so bad, my previous point is largely an issue so Reddit can be an advertising platform and then they fail at being an advertising platform. Other social media that relies on advertising revenue rewards advertisers for honest, accurate, and well targeted ads. Reddit has their audience opt in to their interests, how hard can it be to serve a fair quantity of relevant adverts? Reddit is the cheapest platform to advertise on and it’s treated like a big old billboard. The average CTR on Reddit ads is a third of that on Facebook. If they could manage to target even the right country half the time they could make more money showing less ads, and ads people at least don’t mind seeing. This is assuming advertising is necessary at all, what’s interesting here, and with the federated internet in general, is that we can have communities that aren’t expected to be profit centres and try out new ways of financing platforms that centre users and not the advertising industry. **The bots** I’ve been on Reddit for at least 6 or 7 years, and it feels like outside the news and current affairs subs, there’s been very little new for about three of them. The place has been suffocated by repost bots. Even now, if you dare to look, you’ll see a lot of Reddit’s current activity is coming from unaware bots on dead subs reposting whatever hit r/all in 2020. The most blatant bots are porn accounts, spamming their dead eyed content indiscriminately across the platform, spare a moment for the poor users of r/analog. These issues can be improved on by cutting off access to the API, though I don’t doubt they would just rely on web scrapers without it. Users have already made bots to flag the bots, is Reddit less capable than it’s userbase? Or are they relying on bots to keep the site in a mundane content loop? **The experience** I’m really enjoying using alternative sites now Reddit has given them a userbase. It feels like the internet used to feel before it got carved up between the “platforms” for advertising revenue and I love it. The major points above are massive contributors to user experience but so are the users here, Lemmy and Raddle, the ethos and terms of service for these spaces and small design choices that centre users. *TLDR: I’m deleting my Reddit account(s), not because I want Apollo, but because the alternatives are better.*

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