Reddit Migration

Wanted to say it’s pretty cool to see how fast this place has grown in just the past few days and it’s starting to really feel like what Reddit used to be in the good ol days.

Did you ever have that feeling on reddit of "I better word my post just right, otherwise AutoMod will take it down"? Some subs had such strict auto moderating that it was a crap shoot to post something. Not so here. I know there's value in moderation, and I'm sure Lemmy/kbin/etc. will add more of it with time. But, for now, it was just nice to not be nervous when I was submitting a post here.

I'm totally new to this, but I thought this might be a good place to ask: Is there an Android app I can use to access kbin? I have the website pinned to my home screen for now, but the touch targets are a bit tiny and it doesn't seem well optimized for mobile. Also any tips and tricks on . . . this whole Fediverse thing would be great. Still trying to wrap my head around it.

#RedditMigration

“All posts must be images of John Oliver looking sexy.”

I'm currently trying to make a tool to search magazines to subscribe for based on my list of previously joined subreddits. But I can't seem to find the API to make that search?
Does anyone know by any chance? I'm surprised this is so hard to find.

Currently deleting 7 years of my time on Reddit across 4 accounts, holding back just the gilded comments to edit as a final fuck you.

#RedditMigration

Edit2:

Okay, finally I am confident that I got them all!

Got a torrent client set up, and went to

https://academictorrents.com/details/c398a571976c78d346c325bd75c47b82edf6124e/tech&filelist=1

It turns out that you can just download individual subs. I know exactly which ones I first commented on, it was a small list and the subs themselves were pretty small too. So downloading just those subs from the torrent was pretty speedy and easy.

After that I came up with a quick script (based on the example scripts by the pushshift team's github) at https://github.com/Watchful1/PushshiftDumps

I was able to modify the super useful script at https://github.com/luphoria/reddit-migration one last time to accept a list of comment ids in a text file, and then overwrite them all.

Looks like I won't be needing that GDPR archive after all, thanks for nuttin reddit!!

Hat-tip: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36038684

Edit: confirmed with someone in the PSA thread that this doesn't work. See https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/47320/PSA-If-you-have-more-than-1000-posts-more-than#entry-comment-200913

Original post below:

I'm having the same problem as the commenter here: https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/41129/Just-started-the-process-of-editing-all-of-my-Reddit#entry-comment-180921

In my case I can see my comment history much further, but still about six months short of when I created my reddit account.

My post history seems go to back to my very first post, but I have a lot fewer of those.

For now I just edited my comments, but I'm wondering if I should also do a delete. If I delete say 400 of my newest comments, will I see 400 more older comments show up in my profile? And if so, how long will it take to refresh?

I'm willing to experiment and try and find out for myself, but was just curious if others had already experienced this.

(Of course, if it actually doesn't help - deleting new comments won't bring back the older history for me to backup and edit and delete - then I'd rather not delete anything at all and just leave my farewell message everywhere.)

I adapted this script to do what I needed, including printing out a count of comments found, as well as the permalink of each comment (so I could double check the date).

https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/16226/Wrote-a-script-to-edit-all-my-posts

Given that they've democratically voted to become John Oliver fanposting subs and have hot threads with 10k+ votes, seems like they'd show up.

I went to check all logged in and logged out, but didn't find a single one. Is it just me?

Edit: Seems like they are there in some capacity

Poll: What should be the final name for the #Kmoon app for #kbin and #lemmy? Below some suggestions from the community.

Lets say you found out about both of the sites for the first time together. Which one would you realistically use and why?

I know Kbin will grow in time but I miss how huge Reddit was.

For anyone who's a podcast junkie like me, The Indicator mentioned the blackout yesterday: https://www.npr.org/2023/06/16/1182896830/r-boxes-r-reddit-r-airegs

No mention of the Reddit alternatives, it was very brief and mostly summed up with "we'll wait and see what happens."

Or the fediverse in general.

I wanted to ask everyone their personal least favorite communities on reddit.

Whic subreddits do you absolutely not (personally of course) want to see recreated as magazines here on kbin, or as fediverse communities in general?

My pet peeve is CMV. I always felt while the idea seemed doable on the surface, the implementation within that particular subreddit with the delta system, the requirement for the top level comments to oppose the OP even if the "view" is an established expert consensus on something like climate change made it impossible to have meaningful conversations.

I haven't checked if we have a CMV magazine here, but as soon as I see one, I know I'm blocking it.

What is your "instant block" community?

So this morning I overwrote 11 years of comments on Reddit with this message:

In preparation for the discontinuation of Ah pall O (read it fast) I have decided to edit my posts/comments and then delete my account. Looking forward to seeing you on whatever comes next 🍻! – mass edited with https://redact.dev/

And I just had a thought. LLM / Generative AI devs and trainers are considering how to consume the massive amount of useful conversation and perspectives on Reddit, and now they will have to contend with random comments in the middle of conversations being completely unrelated to the conversation. Somebody is probably writing code to isolate and ignore these types of comments already 🤣

Happy fediversationing, everyone!

#RedditMigration

It doesn't matter to current leadership of reddit how many people it pisses off. For every user of third-party apps, there are now 10 bots and sockpuppet accounts it gets to count as active users.

And that is exactly how you blow the roof off your IPO. Alphabet and Meta have been lying about their user engagement numbers for decades at this point. "Impressions" are all self-reported and they have zero incentive to be honest. Reddit's VC money is begging Spez to get into this game before the IPO. For all they lies they are saying out loud, this is the quiet one.

Business as usual, keep them well moderated and on topic... buuuuut, add a rule that all content shared must contain a link to your fediverse community

The Sunday morning before the subs going dark:
88,881 Lemmy/kbin accounts

The following Saturday morning/as I write this:
185,142 Lemmy/kbin accounts

So it's well known now that the developer of Apollo estimated the new API pricing would cost $20 million a year. For a source, see the title of https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/31/23743993/reddit-apollo-client-api-cost

But from https://apnews.com/article/reddit-blackout-steve-huffman-ceo-api-0a4f7b344ecfbf50c924b030c344c55e the price from supporting third party apps is $!0 million a year. And presumably this is all third party apps combined!

Huffman says the “pure infrastructure costs” of supporting these apps costs Reddit about $10 million each year.

Something's very not balanced here. That one app would have paid for Reddit's third party infra costs twice over.

I can not remember which ones now (can anyone help me out here actually?), but I think a few apps said they'd try to make it work with the new pricing.

Which means Reddit likely stands to make a huge pot of money once the new API changes take effect, in the short term.

Even if Reddit loses the best subs, the best communities, the best users, and the moderation goes to where the sun don't shine, I could see that new revenue boosting investors confidence enough to lead to a successful (if slightly smaller) IPO.

If Reddit goes downhill and loses lots of value afterwards, well, spez has already made his quick buck, so I doubt he wouldn't feel very sentimental about it.

Folks, please explain to me why I'm wrong. Please.

Announcement on /r/gifs and on /r/pics.

The most Reddit way to protest 🤣

Hello!
How to subscribe to a magazine ???
I found it in the sidebar on lemmy but on kbin is not obvious at all.
Thanks in advance

#RedditMigration

SEE SECOND EDIT DOWN BELOW

Lets not beat around the bush here, lots of people like to look at boobs and dicks.

Lemmynsfw was looking like a good place to go, but reading the "Loli" announcement thread where they equate drawn child porn to petite women, its clear the owner is not the right person to be hosting a NSFW instance for the majority of people.

Is there anywhere else that people can recommend?

There is undoubtably a need for such an instance. Can we discuss this like adults?

edit: UPDATE

Take this update as you will

I'm taking it as a backtrack, but it's still not an instance I want to associate with.

Lots of people keen to offer their opinion of drawn picture of naked kids, haven't seen any alternatives though

Edit 2: At this point I think their updated rules are good. It took a bit to get there, but in the end they appear to be taking a hard stance. Hopefully this is enforced.

I dont think it was a case of "whoops bad English" like they are suggesting, I think it was a total 180 backflip. This doesnt really instill confidence in the admins IMO, but im happy that they have made the right decision in regards to allowed content. Hopefully this is was just some early wobblies and the community can move on.

Because on reddit clicking on the thread title takes you to the linked article and not the thread itself.

How many of you are like me, click on "nn comments" by habit, end up in the comments area and have to scroll back up to see whatever the OP posted?

(Not saying any of this is kbin's fault, it is just taking a bit of getting used to)

"Reddit represents one of the largest data sets of just human beings talking about interesting things," Huffman said. "We are not in the business of giving that away for free." You and me, we're just data sets. Years of interaction with fellow human beings, building community, sharing insight and creativity…it’s all just data. Data to be mined and monetized. Huffman's not mad Reddit was scraped for a chatbot. He's mad he wasn't paid for the privilege. It's his data, you see. His. Not yours.