Reddit

So it's finally that time, to delete all the shit from my former Reddit account, but I'm having a hard time getting the tools to work that I've seen mentioned a lot.

Power Delete Suite: only operated on about 20% of my posts/comments. I'm pretty sure it didn't implement any rate limiting, and Reddit's rate limiting is dropping 80% of PDS's requests.

Redact: I can use it to log in to Reddit just fine, but after I accept granting the app access, it just spins forever.

So it's finally that time, to delete all the shit from my former Reddit account, but I'm having a hard time getting the tools to work that I've seen mentioned a lot.

Power Delete Suite: only operated on about 20% of my posts/comments. I'm pretty sure it didn't implement any rate limiting, and Reddit's rate limiting is dropping 80% of PDS's requests.

Redact: I can use it to log in to Reddit just fine, but after I accept granting the app access, it just spins forever.

This is the weirdest goddamned thing I have seen in quite some time. I keep poking at it and finding more weird shit.

Did you know that the reddit marketing team just spent a week in Cannes with a bunch of their big clients congratulating themselves on how well they're all doing?

Did you know that reddit is bragging about those incredibly weird ads that say "Psst... Can't stop scrolling? It's time for a hydration break" as a success story?

What the fuck is this? I don't understand the majority of it but it definitely doesn't sound good. E.g. "Tinuiti joined the Reddit Independent Agency Program in 2022 and has gone on to triple its spend on the platform, managing successful campaigns for clients including e.l.f, PacSun, Unilever Health & Wellbeing Collective, and Yohana."

What is this video? It... honestly makes sense to me that their ads work well comparatively speaking (as I'm sure they did for Gamestop). But that doesn't mean the whole video isn't super weird.

What the fuck do they mean by "a generation turns to Reddit’s finance communities to safeguard their futures" and why do they keep talking about crypto, anxiety, and mental health when offering "insights" about these communities to their advertisers?

Why does the header for their insights about "The LatinX Experience" explain that only 4% of members of the community support the term "latinx," and then the whole thing continues to use it regardless?

Did you guys know about all this weird shit? I literally am having to pull myself away because I keep finding more.

Just sharing here how I deleted all content from my 30k+ karma account. It's an easy to use, open source, and private way to do it, check out PowerDeleteSuite.

No need to install anything, just bookmark the JS script and run it. This tool was posted here almost 3 weeks ago, but I thought of enforcing it, with the great blackout approaching. The best thing about PDS is that it should remain working since it doesn't use the API.

PDS is able to export your comments, but to export saved items you might want to check Rexport - this one uses the API however, so maybe run it in within the next hours.

I hate having to do this, but Reddit doesn't deserve the community it has.

as the API support is coming to an end, the conflict is rising

The real #redditmigration starts the 30th or the 1st, I hope lemmy and kbin are ready for the traffic!

First of all, I post this as someone who is only modestly informed about the whole situation. I’m a casual user who moved here from Reddit mostly because of the blackout and I don’t have a super strong opinion about any of it.

I’m curious to learn though! Part of my curiosity is in the title - what’s the single worst thing the API changes have done (or will do)? Is it that they priced out Apollo? Is there another big third party app that’s getting killed?

Hello guys,

I was just wondering what's going to happen to websites such as https://safereddit.com/.

I mean, they're not 3rd party apps but I guess they're still using Reddit's API, right?

Thank you for your thoughts.

I occasionally pop back on to see if there's any news about some of my favorite subs migrating to the fediverse that haven't yet, and I've noticed that nearly all of my home page has massive posts in the vein of "comment your favorite ___ and then tomorrow we do our favorite ___!" Or like the "eliminate one ___ every day until we get to the favorite!"

One of my video game subs is doing it for least favorite characters, a TV show sub is doing favorite character quotes, a genre one doing favorite movies and then says it will move on to favorite books, etc.

They all seem to have started around the same day, and they all have options that are dozens long.

I've seen things like this pop up occasionally before but it's so many of them all at once across vastly different subs I follow that have no connections to each other.

My corporate-conspiracy train of thought immediately started to wonder if admins are enticing users/actually posting themselves or w/e to create these kinds of threads that tend to draw lots of user engagement to try and get some numbers looking better. People tend to get really jazzed about these kinds of topics so these posts rn all have hundreds/thousands of comments and upvotes and such in subs that normally don't see that much individual engagement on posts, and they're all tailored to keep up for long periods of time with above-average (in my experience at least) numbers of options to work through to get to the "one." And ofc people who are interested in them are going to keep coming back to check out what's winning and vote on the next round, etc.

Wondering if anyone else has noticed anything like this or if it sounds as fishy to anyone else, or if perhaps it really is just all one big coincidence and I'm just being weird.

• RedReader (Android)[^1] - Website/F-Droid/PlayStore
• Stealth (Android)[^2] - Website/F-Droid
• Infinity (Android)[^3] - Website/F-Droid/PlayStore
• Dystopia (iOS)[^1] - AppStore
• Luna (iOS)[^1] - AppStore
• Narwhal (iOS)[^3] - Website/AppStore
• Libreddit (web)[^2] - Website/Instances
• Teddit (web)[^2] - Website/Instances

[^1]: Reference: https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/25/23772942/reddit-accessibility-improvements-mobile-apps-moderation-tools [^2]: Read-only, unable to post/reply. [^3]: Paid subscription.

“Says it’s important for the world, but will end up becoming a white supremacist cesspool”

“Like that Lemmy social network?”

Going to miss this app

cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/883364

Despite site-stopping protests by mods and users, Reddit leadership chose to brute force its way through any reasonable way of continuing third-party app support. Instead, the company hopes its luxury-priced API will be its secret shortcut to an overvalued IPO. As a result, Reddit’s official iOS app is being torpedo’d in the App Store.

The final days of Apollo may be upon us, but the ramifications of Reddit’s disdain for its users are here to stay. Look no further than App Store reviews to see the results. As TechCrunch reports, data from Sensor Tower shows how Reddit is sealing its fate as a 1-star reviewed app.

The data shared with TechCrunch shows that nearly 91% of Reddit’s U.S. iOS reviews carried a 1-star rating during the initial phase of the protest between June 12–14, compared to about 53% in the previous two months until May.

There has been some ratings improvement lately as the 1-star reviews of the Reddit U.S. iOS app dropped to about 86% between June 15–26, Sensor Tower’s data shows.

That’s presumably because the App Store doesn’t offer 0-star ratings. It’s also telling that Reddit leadership thought nuking third-party apps made sense when its own app saw more than half of its reviews rank it as low as possible.

Reddit app reviews in the App Store have also become a place for users to voice their frustration with the self-sabotaging company.

The data shared by Sensor Tower also indicates the top three most mentioned terms in all of the Reddit U.S. iOS reviews included keywords “apollo”, “third party” and “3rd party,” suggesting users were bombing review ratings in light of the new API move.

Either users are pissed or they’re hosting a lot of birthday parties for the god of truth.

At any rate, there’s been virtually no good news on the Reddit front since the awesome Apollo client was forced to announce its end date. The best Reddit app is closing up shop on June 30 to avoid owing tens of millions of dollars to Reddit before ever seeing its own revenue.

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/270731

Hi,

I recently used bdfr to download all the comments and contexts for one of my accounts. It’s great to have, but it would be cool to have a program that can parse it all and allow me to do things like search and view the comment structure with a simple GUI.

It’s all just JSON so I could write it myself, but I figured I’d ask first if anyone knew of an existing program for this. Thanks!