I think beehaw is a special case where the number of communities is restricted and only admins can create them.
For ones outside of beehaw proper, you can check out askKbin as some folks regularly ask about communities and magazines there.
Edit: I meant @FindAKbin or https://kbin.social/m/FindAKbin
What we are seeing is that reddit is requiring us to apply for a GDPR archive beforehand, and wait. Once we get it then we feed it to shreddit to manually delete it ourselves.
The word is that reddit doesn’t respect the deletion part and requires us to do it ourselves. They also seem to be claiming that after an account is deleted they have no way of finding which comments and posts belong to that account and so no way to do a GDPR archive post deletion.
I’m quite sure this is not GDPR compliant and quite a few folks have said they are now working to report reddit to their version of the ICO. However this is slow going and while I firmly expect reddit to get punished and sanctioned for it the process can take years.
My account was younger than this and it was still a major effort to get everything.
It’s not even normal numbers, if you look at ads traffic (the real money maker) that one remains down from before the protest.
What I’m seeing from some of those groups is that they at going to mod the app to let the user give their own api key.
For apps shutting down it gets even more extreme. Apparently the backend server code for Apollo is going open source. So some folks will use a modded Apollo app and run their own backend.
All just to use reddit for a single user 🤷🏽♀️
For sure. Can see a lot of skepticism that the upcoming accessibility and moderation updates will be enough - or even be the right ones, see for example https://teddit.adminforge.de/r/modnews/comments/14he7nz/accessibility_updates_to_mod_tools_part_1/
Actually, seeing some evidence that other folks, non-protesting mods, are also getting permabanned without recourse. See for example https://teddit.adminforge.de/r/ModSupport/comments/14hrr28/reddit_keeps_suspending_one_of_the_moderators_who/
Right??? And reading between the lines of her post, it seems like the admins she reached out to offered to help; and gave reassurances but ultimately couldn't do anything.
So how come even the admins can't do anything here? It's almost as if spez is the one banning them, and only spez is allowed to approve unbans ,or something crazy like that.
So the lore goes. I never interacted with this - or any power mod on reddit - so I can't speak from personal experience.
The point I'm getting at though - reddit wants cooperative mods who would have gone along with the new rules.
This powermod was likely one of those folks, who didn't support the protests or blackouts, and seems to have just got taken out in the crossfire.
Furthermore it's revealed that this powermod claims to have had a connection to reddit admins.
So basically if this person's connections couldn't save their account, especially this kind of mod that reddit would likely have wanted to keep, it shows how powerless even reddit admins are over corporate. (A lot of us here might have already known this, but even so.)
reddit is really shooting themselves in the foot here, blindly kicking out not only protesters but folks who might have gone on to be great loyalists.
Never used a 3rd party app. Was very happy with the official reddit app as recently as a few months ago.
Now that I'm reading this, I have to ask, did reddit push through some updates to make it extra crudy or something? Worse, did they just do it a week before 3rd party apps have to shut down?
I think this might be it. Assumed it wasn't there because it wasn't in r/all right away - which in turn might be a side effect of all the changes reddit put in to hide protest content from r/all.
So folks casually browsing and not knowing the subs may not see the news right away there, and give up and look at other sites instead. I'm happy to call this another win for the protest.
spez idolizes Musk, so that works for me! Welcome, my fellow sibling-in-arms!