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[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

The funny thing is this will do absolutely nothing to prevent a sitewide protest. There are so many ways for mods to effectively destroy a subreddit or redirect it while remaining public.

In fact, and this is the important blindness that Reddit continues to have, the mods usually need to work hard daily just to keep a sub usable. Reddit is so dismissive of that effort and so brazenly presumes upon their volunteer labor that they seem to think subs just continue on sheer momentum, if only they could stop mods from sabotaging them.

Mod posts every day pointing to a new community at Lemmy or elsewhere, stopping using bot removal tools, stopping troll culling, marking NSFW, etc will do the job.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

No it doesn't, just stop using reddit.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I wonder how it’s going for Reddit? I expect they are still huge.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

dunno, for 16 months now, the only time I went there was after a google search and the answer was in a reddit thread... There is 15+ years of answers to various obscur topics and all, "unfortunately"

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

They're starting to get stale though. Sometimes yes, there will be a 15+ years old thread that's still relevant, but there will also be so many cases that the latest post is 2+ years old and no longer applicable or outdated.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 89 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

The only site wide protest that counts is not to use it

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Would do so but they bring back allot of posts, and besides I deleted my account. I couldn't take them making it more and more difficult for me to do what I enjoyed on the site.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

They've done a lot to neuter that.

Not sure on the technicals but lots of rate limiting to prevent PDS from being able to get everything and outright shenanigans to make posts not appear in the old view which also prevents PDS from deleting them. Not to mention un-deleting comments after a while (even if you use the option to edit before deleting).

So run it early and run it often. And then just delete the account for the rest.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Some users have seen their deleted content return later. So yes you should try but don't assume it will be permanent

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

It's what I did and I haven't missed it

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[–] [email protected] 98 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

“communities should honor the expectations they set”

Oh, really?

[–] [email protected] 74 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Too bad Reddit executives don't feel that way about their own website.

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 2 weeks ago

Enshitificication of Reddit continues!

The beatings will continue until community morale increases... and of course: profits.

[–] [email protected] 160 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

sometimes the only winning move is not to play

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