So reddit had basically broken the unwritten agreement it had with the community - the ones who gave it content that made it valuable as a company.
If they can’t survive without dishonouring that agreement then maybe it’s not such a bad thing if they don’t survive.
This does kinda explain why reddit is behaving like this. However going too far in cost cutting- well it’s like cutting off your own arms and legs. So reddit as we know it may be doomed either way. Can’t survive if they give into the protests but also can’t survive once the mods and subs have been irreversibly alienated.
The record so far is that without a mod crossing lines the sub just stays restricted. Effectively shutdown.
You may look forward to it but I doubt it will happen.
I hope reddit enjoys the loss of traffic after they shut down this sub. I know I will.
Nice to see this getting the press coverage that it deserves.
Yeah, you are right. It'd be tough to directly modify PDS as that's javascript in a browser and there are strict restrictions on what JS can do on a filesystem in that case.
But maybe someone can create a browser extension that does the same job. Extensions have fewer restrictions so maybe it could be fueled by a file.
Or maybe someone will some up with some kind of shell script that can read the archive and copy & paste the URLs for each of your posts and comments, one by one, into the javascript console of your browser, allowing PDS to take care of the rest (visiting each one and simulating hitting the edit and delete buttons).
The other issue is that PDS depends on old dot reddit dot com currently from what I understand. If that ever gets dropped, PDS will break until it's updated to work with new reddit.
That's what's so awful about this. Prices were announced May 31st, so for a CCPA request that was done that very instant, they can delay until mid July, when the API changes will make it much more difficult to delete your data, and there's no recourse.
Even for GDPR, maybe you'd get it the day before, for the shorter 30 day limit. But a day of a few hours could easily mean you've gone past and API is also a problem for you.
This is some messed up timing, mates.
Hmm, interesting point. I ultimately decided against it - reddit isn't fully complying at the moment (see https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/99466/Reddit-violates-CCPA ) and if comes down to a fight, then I'd still have no recourse. reddit might not check, but the ICO or whoever I try to appeal to for relief probably would.
There is a way still if you can't wait for a GDPR request, or if you live outside a place where something like CCPA/GDPR applies and you think reddit might actually say no.
Here's what to do in that case: https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/65260/PSA-Here-s-exactly-what-to-do-if-you-hit-the
Ditto for the Canadian PIPEDA.
But they promised they wouldn’t! </sarcasm>