The reddit blackout is even more effectivte than expected! 5177/8829 (~60%) of subreddits are still dark [1] and the posts per minute are down to 1000 from 1400 [2].

This is huge. Subreddits were supposed to be back up yesterday. I personally missed Reddit the first day but now I am super comfortable here.

Glad to have found a new place to hang out!

Edit: Reddit has 100k subs, 60% out of those who officially signed up


[1] https://reddark.untone.uk/

[2] https://www-heise-de.translate.goog/news/Reddit-Blackout-dauert-an-30-Prozent-weniger-Aktivitaet-Werbebranche-wartet-ab-9189048.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.rdf.beitrag.beitrag&_x_tr_sl=de&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp

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62 points

True punishment would be active, content rich posters zeroing out their posts and comment history. By doing so, the Google searches - which currently refer a ton of traffic to the site - will start to fade. The body of knowledge- users knowledge, not Reddit’s- is what drives new traffic to the site. I plan to remove my contributions later this month, presuming nothing changes.

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29 points

15 year redditor, though only with ~250k karma. Scrubbed the crap out of my account. I’ll probably still use reddit on desktop for as long as old.reddit exists, but for mobile I’m definitely trying out alternatives.

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15 points

11 year redditor here, I scrubbed my account too.

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12 year account myself

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I’ve been on Reddit for 13 years, and I’m hesitant to remove everything, in case I want to revisit some of my old posts/comments. Is there a way to archive your own content?

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I left Reddit but didn’t scrub any posts. Seemed a bit like cutting off your nose to spite your face. Although I do understand why others thought otherwise.

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Power Delete Suite will offer the option of backing your stuff up locally.

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I used Power Delete Suite to back up and delete my content. Note that there seems to be a bug in the archive export process though. I had to follow the advice on this issue to pull my full CSV backup.

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Until the 30th you have the API, write up a little script. Either get the raw data or store a snapshot of the post on the website

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How do I give Reddit gold? Hopefully this works🥈

In all seriousness “this is the way”

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16 points

/r/DataHoarder was encouraging that last I checked.

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5 points

Isn’t that ironic

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7 points

They’ve already got a copy, I guess.

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1 point

Its like RAAAYYYYEEEAAAAYN

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I wonder if they moved here too. Would be nice, really enjoyed being part of that community.

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It’s a pitty there aren’t many (any?) subreddits that are “officially” endorsing a specific community in lemmy (or magazine in kbin) for migration.

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Man, you know it’s bad when even a sub based on data preservation is saying, “Nuke it”

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11 points

Same here, going to do it a few days before the API change just in case they pull some crap to prevent mass scrubbing losses

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GDPR (for EU users) and CCPA (for Californian users) both have the right “to be forgotten”, which means they must delete all your data upon request. Even if they block the third-party bulk deletion sites that use their API, they should still delete all your data upon request, at least if you’re in a jurisdiction with such a requirement.

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It isn’t that powerful. They don’t have to remove comments or posts if they don’t contain any personal data that you can be identified with.

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Why not sooner then later, holding out gives reddit hope.

There are a few useful extensions and browser plugins that help automate editing your past comment history and posts to be blank, the same tool then deletes the post and comment for you.

Don’t leave anything behind IMO. I know I did not.

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Kind of sad to lose all that knowledge though. I wish we had a backup.

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There is, the-eye.eu has a full archive up until march 2023 https://the-eye.eu/redarcs/ (about 2TB total).

You can download individual subreddits too.

See here for more details (reddit unfortunately…): https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/1479c7b/historic_reddit_archives_ongoing_archival_effort/

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I mean there’s always archive.org and the various other internet caches that contain a large portion of Reddit’s knowledge.

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