Hawne

I’m sure there are people here with more experience that will be glad helping you comprehend what is and what can be done before you come up preposterously “establishing guidelines”.

I like all I’ve read so far from other comments, Blade Runner taking the lead by far. However I’d like to add a somewhat iconic yet often forgotten item to the list: Appleseed, the original one.

I’m not sure this data’s worth a lot though, as many users (likely most of them) are using anon or throwaway accounts with none to little link to the rest of their activity. Sure it can be processed for statistics but I don’t think there’s a lot to extract further. Reddit is no facebook where the average joe has its “average joe” account, and I don’t think signing up with a google/apple/whatever account is the most common practice on reddit (or at least with your real, non-portmanteau anon account).

As for archived posts and comments they’re already publicly available on archive sites. Why would anyone buy them?

But what Reddit is putting a price on is access to content generated by its users, not Reddit itself.

Spot on. Spez is short-sighted thinking he can “musk out” of this situation, as reddit is no twitter.

Twitter’s value is on its users: often empty but famous shells moving hot air from tweet to tweet. Reddit’s value was in the content we brought but as soon as we stop feeding the beast it’s just a glorified wayback machine. That is, if we do not delete our past contributions.

If you can’t stand a side remark and a bit of rabbithole chasing maybe you’d be more comfortable with something more rigid than the fediverse, unless you take it as a country club. And oh, a couple users frowned upon my comment henceforth you are so right and I am so doomed.
Sigh…

I did it on purpose. This post will draw attention to people both beehaw-savvy and beehaw-enthusiasts enough to appreciate the error page, which place could be better actually to educate my prejudice?

A hell of a job. I took the lazy way out and just deleted all of my contributions, and will be GDPRing whatever’s left or restored in a while. New platform, new content, same mind and fingers.

Too late for me I guess, I’ve already deleted all of my user content in order to “deflate” reddit.

But I still have fingers and a few neurons connecting so, onward to new content!

Call me stubborn if you must but as long as beehaw is playing the maverick part and not willing to be a full and compliant part of the fediverse I just won’t raise an eyebrow. Well, not right now at least.

It’s not that I’m super-informed and henceforth condemning beehaw or whatever, I just feel like transitioning from bigbroreddit to the fediverse is enough change without betting on the outsider that’s whistling their own tune already.

If someone can educate me bringing some food for thought about beehaw I am willing to listen and eventually learn.

Spez just got muskified.
He was thinking (or more likely, his hubris was babbling): “If Elon can do it, I can do it!” without realizing that reddit is the exact opposite of twitter.

Meanwwhile in the real world, twitter’s value is all about its users (as in, empty but famous shells making some noise) while reddit’s value is in the content its users bring. On reddit the influence isn’t the person but what they bring along, and if they stop bringing it along then reddit’s just a second-hand internet time machine.

Not even talking about users who (like me) have deleted their “lifetime” contribution while keeping their account alive (in order not to find it restored with a dummy handle). Reddit is getting the Thanos treatment, bit by bit.

At least it makes some noise for “normie users” that could have looked the other way and kept business as usual despite stickied posts (“Oh no more technical protest crap, just let me see more cats videos!”). This (more or less) indirect visibility can pique such users’ interest and lead them to assess the situation differently and eventually follow the rabbit further down.

It also acts as a ZAD (Zone to Defend) after the initial blackout protests.

Thank you! I’m not sure it’ll be the same for shreddit as it must be registered as a “script” application on reddit in order to work so I’m guessing it’s using API.

FYI all of these solutions stop working in 10 days 🤣

Wrong. Most solutions (see below) linked here are either proxies or scrubbers-archivers, which mean they are using HTTPS requests to access a web page.
If such solutions really stopped working on July 1st then you wouldn’t be able to access reddit with your browser.

Which could be an interesting side effect.

(About teddit and libreddit: those two are “portmanteau” using varying techniques to obfuscate reddit crap. Teddit is indeed using some “unofficial” API so it may or may not work, and apparently libreddit is proxying requests so it should probably work. It will also depend on their .json use as it is also covered by the new terms.)

How will these tools (power delete, shreddit, redact.dev etc) behave after July 1st? Will users still be able to nuke their content or do they need to hurry tfu before the fatidic date?