I’m actually happy to give a vote of confidence in @Shortcake who did a great job moderating this magazine in the beginning.
If that individual would just return to checking this magazine more frequently, I’m happy to leave things as-is.
But if that’s not possible, hopefully Shortcake will appoint someone as a third mod soon so this magazine can get cleaned up. (Speak of - any volunteers?)
Actually, @Shortcake got back to me two days ago and took care of the spam - or so we thought. I’m sending another message now since we’re getting more spam.
I’m wondering if an email was sent out as part of the updates that @ernest and @admin are doing to kbin, which might have grabbed the mods attention here. The lack of email notifications makes it hard to keep up, I’m thinking.
I don’t believe it’s really over.
Reddark is still reporting 1839 subs are dark.
At least one 1+ million sub is still private, and at least one 10+ million sub is still restricted.
I’m surprised though - I’ve heard arguments that John Oliver was okay with reddit admins, so why the pushback now to drop it?
Who says they failed? They look like a stunning success to me, considering how much growth the fediverse and alternatives like squabbles got during that time, and the momentum has kept up after.
Even now more and more groups are moving off reddit to something else.
And I guess you didn’t see this year’s final r/place picture.
From a monetary point of view, spez will probably win. He’ll destroy reddit completely in his quest for the IPO, and get to the point where the numbers are juiced up enough that he can sell high, make a huge chunk of money, and take his exit. But that doesn’t negate our success.
Also,…
how does it feel knowing that you looked like
Please don’t confuse us with your mirror.
Hey, it’s the fediverse! Make your own instance and your own magazines on there, and if there are like-minded folks who appreciate your moderation, your instance will grow. You’d generally not have to depend on the whims of other mods or admins that way, but have nearly full control over your own safe space.
they certainly can’t block me from reporting that it isn’t working, for them to accept it.
Is r/help run by admins? I can’t remember.
Anyways, while I agree that they can’t ignore your request for your data under the GDPR, i don’t think there’s a law saying that they have to acknowledge their website being broken. Technically it’s fine for their system to be broken as long as you’re able to submit a GDPR request (even if only by email), unfortunately.
you are right! I only checked on my profile, so can’t be sure. It’s just misleading though if they still keep them.
Yup, that’s kind of one of the biggest issues with them actually. It’s incredibly misleading!
Anyway, it seems that they have already removed my account or at least removed access to it to me so there is not much to be done now i guess.
Yeah, I’ve heard this story before. Hopefully PDS got all of yours and hopefully this post will help others as well.
Yeah, the point of the GDPR request - the data retrieval request - is to get a copy of all posts and comments, which can then be feed into a script that does the actual deletion. Note - I’m not saying that reddit should not do the deletion themselves - in fact I feel that they should, seeing how hard they make it to do it ourselves with their stupid limits.
Why do we need to ask reddit for a copy of all our comments to delete them? Because reddit has hidden limits and you can think you’ve deleted everything, only to realize too late (after you deleted your account) that a bunch of stuff got missed and now can no longer be deleted. See for example https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/46805/Strange-phenomenon-while-deleting-my-comments and https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/172540/How-can-I-automate-the-process-of-deleting-my-remaining and https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/p/425000/If-you-re-nuking-your-old-reddit-content-this-might-be
Worse, all tools like PDS will give a false sense of security here. You’ll see from your profile that you have no posts and no comments left, but then you Google your own reddit username and find a bunch of stuff. (It’s actually reddit and not the tools like PDS to blame for that false sense of security.)
It seems to have done the job though
My question is - how do you know? how did you check?
Be careful here, these tools don’t always delete everything, see https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/47320/PSA-If-you-have-more-than-1000-posts-more-than
A better way is to make a GDPR request for your data and then use something like shreddit to delete it. If you can’t wait, then you can also try the process described in https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/65260/PSA-Here-s-exactly-what-to-do-if-you-hit-the
I had them confirm that they won’t recreate it when I have deleted it
Important to retain this!
They still say that they will retain the IP used for creating the account. Not sure if this is legitimate data redemption after I have asked for my data to be deleted according to GDPR?
Only if they can find some other basis to keep it now that you’ve withdrawn your consent - e.g. some law in an EU member requires them to retain the IP address. Another example - they claim they need it in much the same way that the credit card money needs to know your personal info so they can continue collecting your payments until the debt you own them is paid off.
TBH, I’m hard pressed to understand on what alternative basis they are able to use to retain your IP address. This might be something to refer to your regulator for additional information.
If you check out the modlog, https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/modlog you can see that @Shortcake last did some moderation activity six days ago, deleting and blocking stuff from federated user imona at kbin.melroy.org
I think the admins like @ernest wouldn’t do anything at this point, since the mod reappeared somewhat recently to reclaim the mantle. Instead, we need to figure out how to reach out to Shortcake and figure out how to get moderation more active here again.