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I've been planning a jump across, but have been waiting it out to see if they see the error of their ways. Thus far they just keep jumping from one awful talki

I've been planning a jump across, but have been waiting it out to see if they see the error of their ways. Thus far they just keep jumping from one awful talking point to the next like a toddler trying to rationalize bad behaviour.

Paul-Craft 3y ago
I'm blanking out my 10 year old account (after requesting my data dump) sometime around the first if they don't do something to reverse course.
- deevious 3y ago
  I requested GDPR exports for my accounts 8 days ago, nothing turned up yet. I have shreddit lined up to run as soon as I get my zips.
  - Paul-Craft 3y ago
    I've heard of multiple people who have done the same and have had the same problem. It seems either so many people are requesting their data that it's bogging down the process, Reddit is deliberately slow-playing it, or both.
  - samstave 3y ago
    Does one have to be an EU citizen to request via GDRP? If so - I made the offer to sell my accounts to any GDRP person for $1 such that I can make those requests for data (ill pay more than $1, its just to make it an actual transaction) I have 17 years of content contributed to reddit... and I'd like to kill it all.
- accrual 3y ago
  I was curious to see HN's view on removing Reddit account data. I have a couple old accounts (>12 years) with many thousands of comments. My personal perspective is that deleting all these comments, some of which contain technical help, advice, solutions, etc., would really be a net-negative for everyone. I understand wanting to send a message to Reddit leadership, but in reality the blip is so small as to probably not even register. On the other hand, those comments will probably be valuable to someone, somewhere, sometime and all I'd be doing is harming those future readers and salting the metaphorical earth. Looking further into the future, let's assume Reddit collapses in 5 years in 2027. The money is dried up, management is gone, and all that's left are decades of data hopefully archived. Are people 5, 10, 20 years from now going to appreciate that a subset of data was purged in protest? Or are they going to appreciate that they found some useful data still in the archive that might actually help something? I'd rather be in the latter camp. And maybe one day someone will ask their at-home AI bot a question about <niche topic>, and a small part of me will be emitted in the output.
  - Nexxxeh 3y ago
    I've been helped by old posts from others on Reddit and elsewhere. It seems like a dick move to delete mine.
chongli 3y ago
I've been planning a jump across I’m not sure why people think of it this way. Why not just create a lemmy account and try it out? There’s no physical stuff to move (unlike moving to a new apartment or house). You’re not required to delete your Reddit account either. Am I missing something here?
- bigyikes 3y ago
  It’s because Lemmy isn’t actually compelling outside of a few niche circles.
  - chongli 3y ago
    The same can be said about Reddit. I’m not subscribed to any of the big subreddits there. I use it for niche communities. To me, that’s the whole point! Lemmy’s having some growing pains right now (spinning wheel of death) but I’m confident they’ll be resolved. At that point, it’ll be much nicer to use, so I’m pretty happy with that. As for people hoping to one day “jump over,” I think that’s a mistake with almost anything. Dip your toe in, don’t go “all in” on anything you’ve never used before. You’re much less likely to end up extremely disappointed that way.
  - dragontamer 3y ago
    In my experience, private instances of PhpBB forums provide niche webtools that are necessary for community building that Reddit could never replace. The Tetris community created a Javascript gui called Fumen (https://harddrop.com/fumen/ https://harddrop.com/fumen/), that can be embedded into PhpBB forums. The chess community created Javascript GUIs that read/write .pgn files (aka: move-history files) to help the community discuss games. The Go community created a similar GUI for Go games. Etc. etc. ----------- Since the administrator controls the whole webpage (including Javascript), you can host local tools in a Reddit-like environment. I think people are sleeping on the potential here, especially if you've never used these custom web-GUIs before.
- izzydata 3y ago
  I think those are two independent actions. They would probably delete their reddit data regardless of Lemmy working out or not.
Aachen 3y ago
Same-ish, but: I'm not using reddit in the meantime to send a message of "this is what you're looking at when reddit keeps their current plans". I don't know if that's also part of your master plan, but if not, at least if a significant number of people think like that, then reddit has little reason to care. I'm also on Tildes now, probably because of the invite-only FOMO, but a full comparative study (figuring out which lemmy instance to sign up with, as well as looking into other alternatives) is something I'll be forced to do only after June 30th, and I've mastered the art of procrastination so it's not going to be any sooner.
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Paul-Craft 3y ago

I'm blanking out my 10 year old account (after requesting my data dump) sometime around the first if they don't do something to reverse course.

deevious 3y ago
I requested GDPR exports for my accounts 8 days ago, nothing turned up yet. I have shreddit lined up to run as soon as I get my zips.
- Paul-Craft 3y ago
  I've heard of multiple people who have done the same and have had the same problem. It seems either so many people are requesting their data that it's bogging down the process, Reddit is deliberately slow-playing it, or both.
- samstave 3y ago
  Does one have to be an EU citizen to request via GDRP? If so - I made the offer to sell my accounts to any GDRP person for $1 such that I can make those requests for data (ill pay more than $1, its just to make it an actual transaction) I have 17 years of content contributed to reddit... and I'd like to kill it all.
accrual 3y ago
I was curious to see HN's view on removing Reddit account data. I have a couple old accounts (>12 years) with many thousands of comments. My personal perspective is that deleting all these comments, some of which contain technical help, advice, solutions, etc., would really be a net-negative for everyone. I understand wanting to send a message to Reddit leadership, but in reality the blip is so small as to probably not even register. On the other hand, those comments will probably be valuable to someone, somewhere, sometime and all I'd be doing is harming those future readers and salting the metaphorical earth. Looking further into the future, let's assume Reddit collapses in 5 years in 2027. The money is dried up, management is gone, and all that's left are decades of data hopefully archived. Are people 5, 10, 20 years from now going to appreciate that a subset of data was purged in protest? Or are they going to appreciate that they found some useful data still in the archive that might actually help something? I'd rather be in the latter camp. And maybe one day someone will ask their at-home AI bot a question about <niche topic>, and a small part of me will be emitted in the output.
- Nexxxeh 3y ago
  I've been helped by old posts from others on Reddit and elsewhere. It seems like a dick move to delete mine.

chongli 3y ago

I've been planning a jump across I’m not sure why people think of it this way. Why not just create a lemmy account and try it out? There’s no physical stuff to move (unlike moving to a new apartment or house). You’re not required to delete your Reddit account either. Am I missing something here?

bigyikes 3y ago
It’s because Lemmy isn’t actually compelling outside of a few niche circles.
- chongli 3y ago
  The same can be said about Reddit. I’m not subscribed to any of the big subreddits there. I use it for niche communities. To me, that’s the whole point! Lemmy’s having some growing pains right now (spinning wheel of death) but I’m confident they’ll be resolved. At that point, it’ll be much nicer to use, so I’m pretty happy with that. As for people hoping to one day “jump over,” I think that’s a mistake with almost anything. Dip your toe in, don’t go “all in” on anything you’ve never used before. You’re much less likely to end up extremely disappointed that way.
- dragontamer 3y ago
  In my experience, private instances of PhpBB forums provide niche webtools that are necessary for community building that Reddit could never replace. The Tetris community created a Javascript gui called Fumen (https://harddrop.com/fumen/ https://harddrop.com/fumen/), that can be embedded into PhpBB forums. The chess community created Javascript GUIs that read/write .pgn files (aka: move-history files) to help the community discuss games. The Go community created a similar GUI for Go games. Etc. etc. ----------- Since the administrator controls the whole webpage (including Javascript), you can host local tools in a Reddit-like environment. I think people are sleeping on the potential here, especially if you've never used these custom web-GUIs before.
izzydata 3y ago
I think those are two independent actions. They would probably delete their reddit data regardless of Lemmy working out or not.

Aachen 3y ago

Same-ish, but: I'm not using reddit in the meantime to send a message of "this is what you're looking at when reddit keeps their current plans". I don't know if that's also part of your master plan, but if not, at least if a significant number of people think like that, then reddit has little reason to care. I'm also on Tildes now, probably because of the invite-only FOMO, but a full comparative study (figuring out which lemmy instance to sign up with, as well as looking into other alternatives) is something I'll be forced to do only after June 30th, and I've mastered the art of procrastination so it's not going to be any sooner.

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