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Screw community names, I want instance agnostic URLs for posts and comments.

Right now lemmy.ml/comment/123456 and lemmy.ml/comment/123456 are two different comments, and there is no simple way to find one comment on another instance (so you can interact with it from your logged in account). What we should have is lemmy.ml/comment/123456@lemmy.world to point to a comment made on another instance, then you can just change the instance name after the @ to find the comment (or post) on any other instance.

Wait did sh.itjust.works do anything? I thought the story was that beehaw.org cut them and lemmy.world off, but only for people browsing on beehaw.

Make an account in another instance, there are lots of them.

After paedophile Steve Huffman has been caught lying so many times, why should anyone believe a word he says?

Power Delete Suite doesn’t get everything. PDS goes through your New, Hot, Top & Controversial posts and deletes those - however your reddit profile doesn’t display every comment there.

For example, I had many comments that were older than 3 months and <50 karma that were still left unchanged after running PDS to completion several times. In particular, replies I’d made to my top comments were still there, while the top comment itself had been deleted. I also had a couple comments in the gilded tab that it had missed.

The only way to get everything is to do a GDPR request to get all the comments with links in a CSV file. Apparently shreddit can take this to clear the comments, however the PDS dev shits on shreddit for requiring you to input your username and password. I haven’t yet tried this, but I’m not aware of any other service that uses the GDPR CSV files.

I like to give it slightly wrong answers first, then right answers on the second attempt. Because they’re blatantly using it to train AI (for free, without paying users for their work), I want to poison the data. The first one tells it that it’s guess is wrong, the second one proves I know what I’m talking about - if you do everything wrong it will just discard your training data.

It’s also easy for the NewPipe devs to update their app and make it work again. This has been going on for years already.

Be the change you want to see!

Ah nice, didn’t realise there was a UK feddit. Should have tried!

Proof.

The thing is with all your connections being remote you’ll never see any edits.

Edit: here’s proof.

That’s evil I love it.

What happens to your account on a federated server if that one fails though?

It was supposed to be borderline, ie 18+ models who just looked like they were underage. However there were lots of underage girls posted on there, and indeed the word literally means “a tempting but illegally underage girl” - they’re bait, and if you try to do anything with them you’ll go to jail.

Yeah I’m not sure now. It’s definitely the case for me - it was working last night, then this morning it fails. However logged in it does work.

I kind of feel like they’re doing a google and rolling out the change gradually across different regions.

Edit: Nevermind, it’s working again now.

Twitter is a weird one. Musk is prancing around acting like a piss poor businessman, but all that is simply to hide the fact that Twitter was doomed by the very nature of the leveraged buyout it was bought under. Twitter could never afford the $13 billion loan it took out to buy itself on Musk’s behalf, it was always doomed to fail.

This in turn clears the way for far-right social media platforms. Either they step into line, or they kill them off. I really can’t help but feel reddit is part of a coordinated attempt to destroy open and untampered social media communication amongst people, in particular during the build up to the 2024 elections.

Eh, it’s a misconception to think that capitalism is evil, and the problem. Capitalism is neutral, it’s a simple method of value exchange - it takes x time in man hours to extract raw materials, y to manufacture a product, z to distribute it so the price should be x+y+z.

The issue is with people. People lie and try to inflate or deflate the value of things. They’ll imply that it takes longer to do something, so they can sell it for more, meanwhile they’ll pay their employees less than their time is worth. Capitalism’s main failing is that it is too simple, it is unable to account for these human flaws.

Are you sure you’ve overwritten all your comments? I’ve found reddit doesn’t display all of them on your account page, which means the autodelete programs can’t see all your comments to delete them. I found a bunch of comments more than 3 months old with 50 karma or less that hadn’t been deleted, even after running Power Delete Suite several times.

I think the answer is to use the GDPR request CSV files, which includes links for every comment, however I don’t know if anyone has made a script to do that.

I might still google “[question] reddit” when looking for how to do things, and there a couple of subs I’ll check for that kind of purpose, but I’ve already stopped actively contributing to the site and have edited and deleted most of my comments (at least the ones shown on my profile, reddit doesn’t show all of them - need to find a way to automate editing + deleting from the GDPR CSV files).

Hopefully Lemmy will grow and take over to fill the reddit knowledge gap.

What’s more, they’ve blocked old reddit if you’re not logged in. Now it either redirects to new reddit or you get a “you broke reddit” error page. It won’t be long before they block old reddit for existing users, I reckon.

The CEO is an absolute bastard. He’s twisted the words of his “friend” Aaron Swartz, the real founder of the site, and bastardised his creation while trashing his legacy.

The blackout isn’t pointless, it’s just not yet enough. Reddit needs to die, and the blackout is a step towards that. It started as a way to try and get admin to change, and in that respect it has and will fail, but it is the first step to reddit going the way of digg.