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Reddit Migration

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### About Community Tracking and helping #redditmigration to Kbin and the Fediverse. Say hello to the decentralized and open future. To see latest reeddit blackout info, see here: https://reddark.untone.uk/

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I feel free !
Thanks to Power Delete Suite.
I actually run cupoftea.social on mastodon so I was already very familiar with the fediverse. The more platforms for it the better.

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[–] MrFahrenheit@kbin.social 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And 37 points on here already. Just 43297 to go
!remindme 12 years

[–] PtitSerpent@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] ninjirate@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

Right now it's the if you get any boosts and not the upvote button. I heard they were going to switch it at some point though I could be wrong

[–] ripcord@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

And how do you SEE points...?

[–] ManInTheMiddle@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I won't delete my account immediately. I am concerned they will reinstate all comments in a month or so. Want to make sure they are not comming back before i delete my account.

[–] MerylasFalguard@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Same here. Ran a script to edit and delete all my comments yesterday. At least cleared out the 1,000 that Reddit saves in your comment history. I’m not deleting my account yet in case they decide to mysteriously restore my comments.

I did the same with two accounts I have with over 100k comment karma each. Didn't delete the accounts (yet), but might as well have.

[–] LDRMS@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I did the same thing and I saw someone here mention after they ran a script some comments magically reappeared some time after. I checked mine and low and behold about 10 (out of 4,500) reappeared so it wasn’t to bad editing and deleting them.

[–] blazix@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

If enough folks do it, Reddit will most likely flag any comment edits or deletes that happen > 2 months (arbitrary) after the comment creation date.

Reddit already has the data and they will figure out a way to recover 90%+ of it.

[–] postscarce@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

Someone should make a site where everyone can post their shreds and we can see things like total karma burned or total comments shredded, or top shredded accounts.

[–] v13@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Congratulations! I thought I would miss reddit, but I sure don't! Welcome to a nice place!

[–] Zoroastyyr@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Agreed. The fediverse feels cozier and requires less of my time than Reddit

The real karma were the friends we made along the way

[–] lixus98@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Congratulations!, I hope they don't restore your comments, they really don't deserve them.

[–] sombrero@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

why do people care about karma so much tho?

[–] Jcb2016@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Probably status. Means you contributed a lot. Of course in real life it doesn’t mean anything!

[–] harmonea@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'll go against the "it doesn't matter" grain and give you a real answer: It just feels good to know people like having you around and appreciate your contributions. I could look at my karma total and know that in the 12 years I used reddit, an average of ~27 people per day, every day, appreciated the fact that I was there. Even if it took almost nothing for them to show it, it was nice to be reminded that I connected with that many people in a positive way.

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

On the other hand, it makes the site as a whole shittier, because people become obsessed with making their number bigger, and a huge amount of activity is done purely with that goal in mind.

[–] harmonea@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Well, I only claim to speak for how I view it -- why people care about it (which was the question). Not some guess at how it affects the site overall.

[–] veridicus@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Gamification is a powerful drug.

[–] tikitaki@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

i honestly don't care about it at all. my main reddit has like 60k and is 14 years old. it's really just a number that shows how much you've posted on the site / how long you've been on the site

sort of like your age. why do we track age? just an arbitrary number based on the earth going around the sun. but it's a number and it shows progress so why not

[–] TinyPizza@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

Well done sir! Your KBIN comrades salute your courage and valor!

[–] Robotoboy@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can feel the heat death of the tech bro universe in my soul and it is nourishing. Let the great separation of social media ensue. Leave the corporations to mingle and advertise eachother... and let us go be us without algorithm and financial motivation. I like it. I like it a lot.

It's like when they used to actually break up monopolies.

[–] swan_pr@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Congrats! Feels liberating. Just deleted my entire history (posts and comms) this morning! 12 years, 35k karma. I'm waiting a bit to delete my account in case the rollback story is a thing so I can delete them again.

[–] Jaysyn@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not going to delete my 225k karma account. I am going to use GreaseMonkey to overwrite all of my comments & posts with "Censored by Reddit"

[–] icanflywheniwant@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

This is the way!

[–] BeardyGrumps@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

Did the same. 12 year account with posts and comments for a wide variety of subs. Used Nuke Reddit History add on which edits the comments and then deletes them. I started it a week ago and each day run it again for the posts it missed. Will delete the account on 1st July. No Regrets..

[–] UziBobuzi@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

I deleted my 7 year old 1 million karma account, at least all the comments and submissions. As subreddits open back up from private more keep trickling in and I'm having to run Power Delete Suite again to get them all. I am waiting until the 30th before full deletion just to make sure I got everything because I don't want them to profit off my posts and replies in the future.

[–] diabolic_seagull@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

I had 60K comment karma, did't feel a thing deleting it...

[–] drinkleadsoup@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Does anyone know how I can scrub the comments on a suspended account?

[–] Jaysyn@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

As long as you can log in & edit your comments you can run a GreaseMonkey script to nuke them.

[–] Jon-H558@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Maybe you could try a gdpr or similar request?

[–] skinnylatte@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

About to do the same.

[–] ender@fedia.io 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just requested my GDPR export; once I get that, I'll both delete the account, and request deletion of my data.

[–] r7vil50j@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

It's good to extract your own data too, don't rely in their complainment.

[–] thehalf13@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I was mostly a lurker on reddit, but actually posted a lot more than I thought I did. I'm cleaning out my account now. But I'm not deleting it yet. I want to give it a few weeks to see if they try to role back any accounts to restore some of the content that was lost.

Here's hoping I post even more here.

[–] metaStatic@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Please don't make the mistake of deleting your account. it disassociates your data and it has become clear that mass deletion tools can't remove all your posts. You really do want your account after the 30th so you can send a legal take down notice as an extra special fuck you to Reddit.

[–] Xeelee@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

If you're in Europe you're legally entitled to have your data removed. If Reddit keeps up this crap, I'll do that after June 30th.

[–] Canady@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I just deleted mine as well after not using Reddit for more than a total of about a half hour in the past week. Didn't feel a thing, either. My phone's battery life has improved drastically and so has my mental health. It's actually to the point where I'm not sure if I even care to be here or any other Reddit alternatives. I understand they're all growing but none of it feels the same, and is it really all so bad to not feel the need to be on social media every waking hour?

[–] Hawne@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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?

[–] tool@r.rosettast0ned.com 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not sure about the others, but Power Delete Suite will still work. It runs locally in your browser in the user's preexisting auth context. To reddit, it's not going to look any different than someone manually editing/deleting their posts through a browser, except the rate at which those actions are performed.

It's open source, you can see exactly what it does and how it works.

[–] Hawne@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] tool@r.rosettast0ned.com 1 points 1 year ago

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.

That's correct, it is using the API. If it's being registered as an app in reddit for your user, that's shreddit requesting authorization to get OAuth tokens for your user.

[–] mombi@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Ohhh lovely, I joined cupoftea.social back when Elon took over Twitter. Welcome!

[–] maxxxxpower@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was thinking of selling, not deleting!

[–] mrnotoriousman@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Same. Will see what happens in the coming weeks

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