Props to the mods over there!

Not gonna link the names, but for real, these guys belong in some kind of hall of fame. Stay strong, fuck /u/spez.

edit for future people: It looks like the android subreddit made a whole server! It can be found here: https://lemdro.id/

  • designated_fridge@lemmy.worldEnglish
    37·
    3 年前

    Makes a lot of sense since it’s a sub for power users. The proportion of 3rd party app users is probably among the highest at Reddit

  • LilBagOfBunnies@lemmy.worldEnglish
    36·
    3 年前

    It’s so nice to see some subreddit sticking to their guns and ideals and push through until real change happens! r/Nintendo is still down too, which was a nice surprise when I was looking around to see the state of my subs on Reddit.

    • pory@lemmy.worldEnglish
      19·
      3 年前

      Oh wow, /r/nintendo stayed down through a Nintendo Direct that announced a new Mario game? That’s a lot more chutzpah than I’d expect from a subreddit focused on a game console.

      • Virkkunen@kbin.social
        7·
        3 年前

        r/Games didn’t even have the balls to shutdown because “summer game fest is more important than a protest”

      • NightOwl@lemmy.oneEnglish
        3·
        3 年前

        They are more based than /r/pcgaming, /r/pcmasterrace, /r/linux, and /r/buildapc. Got my respect. To see them still holding strong is not at all what I would have expected. PC community pretty much completely dropped the ball.

            • pory@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              3 年前

              No clue if that mod’s even responsible lol but if you spent any time on /r/nintendo that mod is consistently the only one being based in the comments. Their user flair was “free Project M”

    • NightOwl@lemmy.oneEnglish
      6·
      3 年前

      Damn that’s amazing. Lot of the subs I expected would be locked down like /r/pcgaming, /r/pcmasterrace, and /r/buildapc are the ones who ended up not caring despite thinking it’d align with the values of openness when it comes to hardware and software. I suppose it isn’t a surprise given that they were probably the ones buying scalper prices for GPUs and then scalper prices from nvidia themselves. Even /r/patientgamers who are supposed to be patient… were not patient enough to rush to go back to normal like they were snatching up preorders.

      But, it’s /r/Nintendo that ended up stepping up to the plate. Respect.

      • ward2k@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        3 年前

        In fairness r/pcmasterrace and r/gaming absolutely hate Linux as well so I wasn’t really expecting them to give up on Reddit and move to the Lemmy/Kbin

  • figaro@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    22·
    3 年前

    For the record, I know this because I’m going through my old comments and turning them into ads for lemmy 😅

    • RomanRoy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      3 年前

      Just a heads up

      Go to reveddit.com and throw your username in there. Check if your comments aren’t being shadow removed.

      Not much you could do about it, tho, but I noticed that the comments I edited to make an ad for Lemmy were all removed. They show up for me, but for other users it shows as “removed”.

      Reveddit lets you know that.

      • curiosityLynx@kbin.social
        3·
        3 年前

        Just checked mine. Apparently, some of my edited comments were removed, while others stayed up (with identical content).

        Subreddits where my edited comments (in new) were removed unconditionally:

        • /r/linguistics
        • /r/nottheonion
        • /r/memes (only commented in that subreddit for a short time frame, so whatever auto-removal there is might only apply to edits to old comments)
        • /r/eu4 (lots of removals, but 1 edited comment survived, no idea why, it’s neither the youngest nor oldest edited comment there)

        Partial removal subreddits:

        • /r/facepalm (some edited comments survived, at least one was reversed, didn’t notice a pattern, might be based on user reports or depend on which mod sees it)
        • /r/pettyrevenge (edits of comments younger than about a month were removed, edits of older comments survived)

        Also, looks like some subreddits that were private when I ran the edit script (like /r/MadeMeSmile) have since gone public, so I’ll have to re-run Power Delete Suite.

        • Maximilious@kbin.social
          2·
          3 年前

          Of all places, /r/amiibo removed my edited post because they banned the term kbin.social. That was a jawdrop wtf moment for me lol.

        • Jaluvshuskies@lemmy.world
          0·
          3 年前

          Question for you - pretty soon here, I’m going to use PDS to edit all my comments with info about why it’s edited and redirection to the fediverse

          I have some comments or posts that are guides, which I will have migrated over to Lemmy. Can I mass edit all my comments with PDS, then go back into reddit to select few individual posts/comments, and add a link to the specific Lemmy guide? Sorry if this doesn’t make sense lol

          • RomanRoy@lemmy.world
            1·
            3 年前

            If you’re doing it manually, yes.

            But you can also filter by subreddit with PDS and do a different edit if your guides are concentrated in a given sub.

            PDS doesn’t append, tho, so yeah, if you’re doing it for each one of them, you’re probably have to do it manually, yea

            • Jaluvshuskies@lemmy.world
              2·
              3 年前

              Yea, so what I was thinking was edit all of them with PDS with a template I have, then go back manually to specific posts/guides and add links to the new guides. Sounds like that would work then, thx :)

      • ThesePaycheckAvenging@kbin.social
        3·
        3 年前

        I’ve had the suspicion about my comments ever since I’ve posted kbin ads (only twice). Timely comments fitting the thread and zero reactions while the one I replied to gets 1000s of upvotes.

        Oh well, it’ll be over next week anyway. Prepare for the wave!

      • tool@r.rosettast0ned.comEnglish
        2·
        3 年前

        You could just use Unicode lookalike characters instead. Guarantee they aren’t scanning for that:

        lеmmу

        That doesn’t actually say “lemmy.” They’re Unicode lookalike characters, not ASCII. CTRL+F for the word lemmy, that instance above won’t show up.

    • AnonymousLlama@kbin.social
      2·
      3 年前

      Doing a great service for the people. Reddit doesn’t deserve to keep content from people given how poorly they’ve treated the community as a whole

    • Pechente@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      3 年前

      I hope you’re not doing this manually. Power Delete Suite can also do edits.

        • Pechente@lemmy.mlEnglish
          1·
          3 年前

          I think so, right? There’s a field to edit your comments. Unfortunately I can’t try it anymore since my posts are already deleted and I don’t intend to post anything.

  • Nano@lemmy.worldEnglish
    191·
    3 年前

    As it should be, all the subreddits that was part of this protest should have done that and not given the end date

    • UprisingVoltageEnglish
      2·
      3 年前

      Yeah, I honestly don’t understand why they bothered going dark in the first place just to reopen after a few days. That’s what it turns a protest into a minor inconvenience

  • baatliwala@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    3 年前

    One of the mods of /r/Android here (/u/cooldude5500), tbh I’ve barely used reddit after the spezification. 'tis a nice change…

  • champion@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    3 年前

    Honestly I feel that the android community here on lemmy is more active than the r/android subreddit before the lockdown

  • Gangreless@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    3 年前

    Admins are going to be taking them over soon. I got the threatening modmail on all my subs, even the really tiny under 1000 ones

    • figaro@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      4·
      3 年前

      I’m interested in doing this but I don’t want to have a computer/server running in the background 24/7. I’d do it if I could use like, an old cellphone though lol

      • gccalvin@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        3 年前

        You could use android phones and apps, but I would also recommend checking out raspberri pi’s. They are essentially tiny computers at about the same scale as a phone. Low power usage, quiet, and you can do quite a lot with them!

        • ech0@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          3 年前

          If you do deploy a Pi tho, for the love of God PLEASE don’t use an SD card. Even the cheapest SSD is faster and way more reliable.

      • TrinityTek@lemmy.worldEnglish
        0·
        3 年前

        I recommend a Raspberry Pi or ODroid SBC. I started with Pis many years ago and the knowledge I gained self hosting websites on Pis opened doors for me in my career. I wasn’t even working in IT when I started with Pis, although I had an A+ cert and was trying to get my foot in the door. Now I’m a Network Administrator. I remember showing my current boss a Raspberry Pi for the first time back in 2014. He had never seen one and was very impressed. Obviously there was more to my success than the work I did on Pis, but it definitely helped me expand my capabilities and many of the skills I learned have been put to use in the organization where I am now employed. As far as having a server running in the background 24/7, when it comes to Pis and SBC, we are talking minimal power consumption and zero noise. Unless you are on the tightest of budgets and have to use dumpster-ware, an SBC is going to be your best bet to get started with self hosting in my opinion.

    • sleepycrow@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      3 年前

      There’s a Discord active and I believe at least 1 Lemmy community so at least there’s external options

      • gccalvin@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        3 年前

        My main point was that if there’s one subreddit that should of migrated fully to lemmy… it would be them. Practice what you preach. Granted they are probably one of the larger communities here on lemmy.

    • realbaconator@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      3 年前

      Typical average consumer does not care as long as they get to keep using the product. That’s likely the majority of Apple users, it’ll take a replacement (like this one) getting popular enough for them to notice and try it, otherwise on Reddit they’ll stay till death.

    • cheatreynold@kbin.social
      2·
      3 年前

      Wasn’t their decision based on being forcibly removed as mods if they didn’t reopen? I thought it was a “this is best for the community” type thing.

  • Sota4077@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    3 年前

    Props to the mods, but they are on borrowed time. It is just a matter of time before Reddit admins step in and take over the site. I just hope that replacement mods say enough to get the role and then immediately carry on.

    • AlmightySnoo 🐢🇮🇱🇺🇦@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      3 年前

      That’s wrong. Reddit cannot find replacement mods that easily. Have you looked at r/interestingasfuck? It’s modless after a week, and technically closed because Reddit is too dumb to realize that they actually made the sub participate in the blackout by removing the mods. If many subs remain closed at the same time, it will be impossible for Reddit to find free replacement mods.

    • Aiastarei@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      3 年前

      The estimated free labor done by mods is valued at around 3.5m a year, how are they gonna find that amount of manpower? And how are they gonna properly vet these mods in such short notice?

      Mods already are carefully picked and yet slips happen often, if they rush a replacement (which they will have to do if they force new mods) then moderation issues will be a big issue on reddit

      • Sota4077@lemmy.worldEnglish
        0·
        3 年前

        Mods already are carefully picked and yet slips happen often, if they rush a replacement (which they will have to do if they force new mods) then moderation issues will be a big issue on reddit Reddit admins vet mods? I just assumed it was always a boys club of who knows and likes who in the modding community.

        • Tired8281@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          3 年前

          I watched this happen on the britishcolumbia sub. They got too many reports or something about misinformation (my memory is unclear about this point, but there was some dispute about misinformation), so the admins closed the sub, posted a message asking for the community to select moderators, then completely forgot about the whole thing. The sub (a sub for an entire Canadian province) was closed for like six weeks. Then some random did a reddit request and they gave it to him, not the mods the community voted on. This random waited for a while, then started letting racist stuff through, and booted the old mods who objected to the racist stuff he was allowing. And Reddit made it all happen.

          The idea of Reddit replacing even a hundred mods, in a single day, with anyone capable of the job, is laughable. They couldn’t do a single sub in over six weeks, and even after six weeks they fucked it up.

  • AnonymousLlama@kbin.social
    7·
    3 年前

    Still super shitty that sync for reddit is vanishing soon. While it’s great that apparently it’s getting re-leveraged as a fediverse reader, still amazed at how poorly this API transition happened because Spez wants to be a knob

    • Zorro@lemmy.world
      8·
      3 年前

      In case you’re stuck on Reddit, the Revanced Team decompiled the APK and made a version of Sync that lets you use your own API key. I’m not sure how well that will work, but I’m definitely going to try it out after The Final Day

      • Bythe@lemmy.world
        2·
        3 年前

        It would be better if people switch to another platform instead of keeping supporting reddit.

      • AnonymousLlama@kbin.social
        1·
        3 年前

        Aw yus, that’s exactly what I wanted to hear. When I heard that they didn’t want to change the app to allow you to use your own API key I was scratching my head wondering why, I could exist under that daily API rate.

        I might give it a go

        • baswag@lemmy.baswag.de
          3·
          3 年前

          I may be wrong but in one of the threads it was said that App Developers allowing users to use their own API Key was also against the agreement

        • MattMist@kbin.social
          1·
          3 年前

          It’s just a patch in the Manager. You may need to download the free version APK from somewhere like APKMirror and patch that though (you can also disable ads so it’s like the Pro version), as there don’t seem to be any Pro APKs and you can’t patch an installed app without root.

          • pory@lemmy.world
            3·
            3 年前

            I’m gonna hold off on this, since one of the steps involves making your own “app” in Reddit’s interface that’s tied to your user account. If Reddit’s admins consider bypassing the API shit this way to be a violation of TOS, that’s a can of worms I don’t feel like opening just yet.

            I was hoping it’d be like Twidere for Twitter, which uses the client ID and secret of the official iPhone app.