Destragras

It really depends on the subreddits you use. I was on reddit for almost 10 years and while I saw others complaining about power-trippers I never experienced it myself and that’s after I’ve used several bigger subreddits.

As fun as it is to dunk on reddit and its moderation, this is definitely exaggerated lol

How is that API still up after this has happened?

Speaking of obscurity, nowadays when errors occur it seems like programs and websites are too afraid to show you the details of the error outside of a generic, sometimes witty “Something happened” or “We dropped the magnifying glass”. I know that’s been a thing for a long time but it is frustraiting that users seem to be being protected from detailed errors more and more.

Yeah I am just having a look on my phone and it runs smoother than the “old new” design for me. The “classic” view it defaults to isn’t bad either.

It does not show the OP on the front page until you go into the comments or a subreddit, and for whatever reason has the comments button open a new tab which I don’t like.

With a few tweaks, I’d hapilly use it if I had to. I’d always prefer old reddit’s design though.

Do you know if they would have been able to do all of that on their own?

When the majority of the world has been using centralised platforms that don’t have the complexities federated platforms do, it’s understandable that there will be people that get confused over why there are several “Lemmy” servers, or why they can’t sign into a Lemmy server when they signed up on another, or why when they try to find a Lemmy community on their server they can’t see it, but they can in Google.

Somehow email providers have avoided this problem, I think because they are pre-installed on devices as the “Email” app.

Yeah the way the data is structured makes it looks like a straight dump from their databases that no doubt is automated.

The amount of data that they do provide in there is much more than I was expecting, compared to some other platforms I’ve seen that do the bare minimum by dumping some basic metadata for your account and that’s it.

Pros: The Fediverse would gain a significant amount of users and existing communities.

Cons: Those users would be redditors. While most I’ve seen are polite, some really love to hate others.

I recall reading that they won’t do anything as the comments are content that you willingly submitted. The most they will do is suggest you delete your account to “anonymise” them, but all that does is replace the username with “[deleted]”.

You can use a tool like Shreddit to edit and remove all of your comments in bulk. Feeding it your GDPR SAR folder will allow it to get past the 1000 comment backlog limit.

Pleroma calls their equivalent of “All” the “Known Network” instead, which does a better job explaining what will show up there in my opinion.

There’s a few third-party apps that have been granted exemptions from the API pricing changes, but other than that the majority of users are using the official reddit app or “new” reddit website because they don’t know any better.

Have any instances considered taking money for running advertisements? I don’t mean the type where they are shoved between posts or following you down the page with flashing animated gifs, but subtle banners that may appear at the top or the side of the page.

The avatars also have a visual effect to them next to comments.

I think people don’t like this at all not just because NFTs bad, but also because it changes reddit more and more from the website it used to be for commenting on articles & images into crypto social media.

Yeah they made a page for them at https://nft.reddit.com/ back in 2021.