https://shreddit.com/ - I hurt the bastards and you can too.
Edit: what is the deal with lemmy randomly changing posts? This reply was composed in a thread about “Will the Fediverse turn off mainstream users?” I hit reply and then the reply posted in this thread. This happened to me last night too.
Listen, I explained Lemmy to my 66 year old boomer Dad and even he understood. You join one of the Lemmy instances and choose it as your home the same way you choose gmail as your email provider. Then you sub whatever community anywhere. It’s not a big deal.
The way I see it, just like with many many many other open sourced projects such as Launchbox, or KeePass, or ShareX, or Libre Office, nothing starts out perfect. But you need to recognise there are hard working people trying to make this dream a reality. It’s being worked on. What you are looking at is essentially a website in it’s infancy still, and it’s being built by the sheer will of the community. If people have patience, and understanding, things can work out just fine. This place is a paradise compared to Reddit. The Reddit corporation does not give a fuck. It wants your data, and to squeeze you for cash.
Lemmy isn’t perfect, yet, but the best thing we can do is work together and make it the way we want it, and we can, nothing can stop us. It’s open source, anyone can contibute. Donate. Post. Help the devs fix the bugs.
I understand that…the average person is not going to. Also, you EXPLAINED it to someone (I also explained it to my wife, who is not a tech person at all, and she understood fine), but again, it takes explaining. For this to take off, it’s going to need to be accessible without a lot of explanation. Otherwise people just won’t care.
For what it’s worth, I’m not a tech person who didn’t have anything explained to me beforehand, knew almost nothing except seeing the words ‘lemmy instance’ (didn’t know what that meant, just that it was relevant so googled it and found a sign up page) and ‘jerboa app’ on reddit and figured out my way here lol. I probably have a bit more free time and patience than the average user and am not afraid to brute force my way through just to see if things work tho lol.
There needs some improvements before it’ll be mainstream accessible for sure imo, most of which I’ve seen pointed out a few times already on different communities. I’d seen mastodon mentioned before in passing by non-tech friends who were just twitter users tho even without ever using Twitter myself, so I suspect if an average user can understand mastodon the same could be true here right?
How does Redact handle the current API rate limits on Reddit? I’ve been using Power Suite Delete the past few days to purge my footprint and help incentive myself to move on, but every pass consistently has comments that aren’t overwritten because it’s hitting limits and moving on instead of queueing actions.
Also, I’ve noticed apparently not all of my account’s content is listed consistently which is why I’ve been running it for a few days now. Every couple hours a few new posts or comments are shown that were just nowhere to be found before.
Is there some way you can copy your posts or guides here before deleting them?
I put in a request to download all my data. It was a GDPR request, so I’m not sure if anyone can do it.
Ah, to be young and piss on reddit again. Back in my days, we had to use TamperMonkey and manually copy the scripts we wanted to use to delete reddit comments.
You young folks don’t know how good you have it!
Back in my day, our comments deleted themselves when the IRC or email server failed…
Come to think of it, what happens if an instance fails with Lemmy and there isn’t a backup?
With the instance itself? I suppose it’s the same procedure as any computer that crashes without a backup; you fucked up son.
I’m just joking, I know what you mean.
The content that has been federated and thus copied to other instances stay with the federated instance forever. Images are hosted at the original instance so they just disappear but the posts, text content and comments are “frozen” at every federated instance.
The idea of Shreddit takes me back to when I first joined Reddit in 2011. At the time, I was in my mid 20s going to rock/metal concerts pretty often. A friend of mine encouraged me to sign up for Reddit and to check out the Shreddit community. It took me ages to figure out she was talking about /r/metal.
I bring that up to make the point that community discovery in my early days of Reddit was pretty difficult, but I eventually figured it out. In time, I’m sure the same thing will happen with Lemmy.
