Dear User,
We will soon begin rolling out changes to Reddit’s User settings. It is getting a refresh that includes changes to ad personalization, privacy preferences, and location settings.
As part of these changes, we are retiring a setting that you have previously turned on that limited how we used your activity from the Reddit platform to personalize ads. We have replaced the setting with a new option to select categories of ads that you may not wish to see.
More details are available in our announcement and help center.
These changes are rolling out starting today and you may see the changes over the next few days.
Users will be tracked with no opt out. Posts may be monetized, which will make content even worse No refund or any type of usable credit for users that spent hundreds on Reddit coins The entire vibe has done a 180° since all these new “positive changes” are rolled out.
They reset all my notification settings. I deleted the app.
Sucks to suck.
If you wanna keep your bookmarks and the subreddits (communities) that you’re subscribed to before deleting your Reddit account, I made a free tool to help you store and offload that data.
It’s called Reddit Account Manager, and it’s 100% free.
You can also use it to manage your Lemmy account(s), of course.
Thanks for such an awesome trip!
Users can also use Redact to delete their data, and then delete their reddit account
https://old.reddit.com/r/redditseppuku/comments/14frr4u/reddit_seppuku_how_to/
Yep, the ideal workflow for migrating would be something like this:
- Use Reddit Account Manager to neatly organize and store your Reddit accounts, bookmarks, and subscriptions
- Request your data archive from Reddit itself
- Use something like Redact or Power Delete Suite to remove your content from Reddit
- Permanently delete your accounts from Reddit
- Move to a federated alternative (optional)
how do I get it without giving away my email address to some random website?
You could use a service like SimpleLogin, Addy, Duck, or just a temporary fake email generator. I don’t mind if you give me a fake email address—you have a right to privacy.
If it helps, my website’s hiram.io. I realize that’s still “random” in the grand scheme of things, but it should at least show you I’m a real person, and I build stuff to build a better web.
You should be using an email forwarding/alias service such as SimpleLogin, or apples proprietary hide my email service for example. You can have an infinite amount of alias emails that all forward to your main, and have 100% control over.
The other option is older school, just make another account somewhere. You can also create automated rules to just forward all emails from their to your main too.
sure, but people could also host their freeware in a way that doesn’t require me to do any of those.
I agree, but your question wasn’t phrased that way :p
*sigh* because sometimes instead of telling someone “it sucks that in order to get that one piece of software from your website you make me create an account despite me never going to visit it again”, you can phrase it a bit more politely and hope that they, you know, figure out the intent behind the question rather than take it so incredibly literally.
I’d open source it if I could, but since Reddit Account Manager is built without code, I can’t host it on GitLab or GitHub.
Can I use this with Android?
Your question’s a little nuanced, so let me try to answer this as thoroughly as possible:
The short answer is: If the platform you choose to use it is accessible from your Android phone, then yes. But it’s not Android- or iOS-specific.
Out of the platforms that it’s available on (Airtable, Notion, Coda, ClickUp, and Baserow), all of them except for Baserow have native mobile apps. With that said, Baserow is also mobile responsive, so you don’t need a native mobile app to work with Reddit Account Manager.
- Reddit Account Manager is a template built on top of those tools (Airtable, Notion, Coda, ClickUp, and Baserow), so you’ll need an account with at least one of those to use it.
- Reddit Account Manager is built without code.
Hope that clears things up. :)
Uhh yeah that didn’t clear things up.
I don’t have a computer and I want all my Reddit content deleted without having to do manual labor for the next several months.
God I wish people would actually make content here on Lemmy.
Agreed, but I think we have to be the change we want to see in the fediverse.
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One thing holding me back from stopping to use reddit as a whole is using old.reddit in the browser. Can’t stand the new design, and once they remove that option - never looking back for real.
On mobile, Lemmy all the way.
With RES of course
tbh I can’t understand why people liked old reddit sorry I’m a zoomer idiot but still can someone help me understand?
For discussions and news and long form text it’s infinitely easier to browse and read in the old layout. The new one is designed for media and for making you quickly jump between threads
It’s like reading a endless wall of text on old reddit. New reddit has so much more white space
oh ok thanks
I used to use reddit with Reddit Enhancement Suite (RES), a browser add-on/extension that has tons of customizations. This was even before there was an old/new reddit, it was just reddit.
So it’s not that we chose to use “old” reddit, it was that we chose not to use “new” reddit. Going to the new design breaks RES and we would’ve missed out on all of those customizations and quality-of-life features that were missing without it.
Plus, “new” reddit is designed for doom-scrolling and serving adds, and not about promoting users to engage in dialog. Most of my reddit interaction was around niche content, where I actually dived deep into threads. New reddit got in the way of that.
thanks
I’m more of a list person than someone who prefers cards type of style. With a list, I find it easier to navigate and get a better overview of everything, rather than seeing just a few posts at a time without scrolling.
More lightweight = faster and more content on the screen? Nowadays cool looking websites are slow and with 25% margin on both sides.
I feel the same all annoyed for example when doing some extensive search on PC vs mobile. No matter if it’s a shopping hunt on ebay or gathering information. On PC i scroll-click 10 links, iterate through them, Ctrl+w the ones being useless and chosing/read betwend the ones left. Something unclear? Double Ctrl+C and deepl pops up with a translation.
5min on PC vs 20min on mobile, where I have to click each link, fight those pop ups and cookies consent, go back, wait anoyingly long 2 second webpage loads and repeat.
I’ve found myself in the same boat.
Not sure how I feel about it, but it’s interesting to see someone else commenting about doing the same.
Can I interest you to old reddit like theme in Lemmy.
More here
https://gist.github.com/rystaf/4d591ffdcbaab1c49efa406885efd814
This looks awesome! How about a clone of the reddit website that masks as a MSN webclient?
interesting, thanks! and it also looks identical. bookmarking this right away
That’s where I’m at. I only access reddit from a browser using old.reddit.com these days. Once that option is taken from me, I’m gone.
People aren’t going to leave reddit all at once right away, because structure means that individual subreddits are very much isolated from one another in terms of users.
However, it’s likely that we will be seeing some kind of cultural shift happening there as quality get worse. I feel it’s inevitable that there will be more low effort content pumped out as quickly as possible than ever before now there is an actual monetary incentive instead of imaginary Internet points, and all personalized feed and ad is going to do is isolate individual users in their individual bubble and not allowing human connections to form between them.
Things are getting better here. The regulars recongnize each other’s name and personalitu, whereas on reddit all the usernames all blends together into an amorphous mass unless it’s one of those novelty accounts or e-celeb or something. That’s the key difference between Lemmy and reddit right now.
Couldn’t agree more. Those novelty e-celeb accounts on Reddit are getting really put of hand, aren’t they, Margot Robbie
Academy award-nominated actress Margot Robbie does actually spend most of her free time modding an android group on Lemmy - but you will never see that mentioned on mainstream social media.
Seriously, it really doesn’t take that much time at all, way easier than I thought it would be.
Any advice you’d like to give that would make somebody starting modding a lot easier, would be appreciated.
Don’t micromanage, I just let people do whatever they want but encourage them to do their best, and only remove/ban for people who absolutely won’t listen to reason.
You should also get involved with your comm by talking to people there a lot, so they don’t think you are just some asshole who’s only there to ban.
Thanks for replying.
Oh absolutely, especially those celebrities who comes in, promote their latest project, say some catchphrases, and leave. Why would they do such a thing?
Also, that’s Academy Award nominated character actress Margot Robbie to you!
Reddit’s not going anywhere until they ban porn and the hobby communities jump somewhere else.
Just wait for old.reddit being removed, there will be another wave of new Lemmy users.
yea, if I hadn’t been permabanned that would have done it for me but there’s still enough people on there that don’t even know old.reddit is a thing for that to really kill the site. I have a feeling a lot of people are willing to just put up with their shit for the sake of not really having anywhere else to go. Unfortunately at the moment unless you want to talk about politics or Linux the pool of content on Lemmy is pretty dry and I don’t know of any better options besides going back to independent forums.
I still have my account and check like once every couple weeks for 2-3 communities.
On PC, old.reddit, and no chance of getting a single ad in my face. I’m not technical enough to know if they’re getting other data from my bimonthly visits, but that’s a far cry less than my old every night visits.
As soon as they get rid of old.reddit it won’t even be reddit to me anymore. Just an ugly new thing overwriting the site I once enjoyed.
Wonderful
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they banned me and ghost me also, no chance to get friends ;) but yes
not all of them.
Its good I don’t use reddit anymore
Penultimate, not ultimate.
The final nail will be when they kill old.nazidigg
Sounds like it violates gdpr
Won’t be rolled out in GDPR countries, for sure.
This is America.
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Oh no they will, they just won’t tell you about it.
No, it said it won’t roll out in specific countries. Which most likely means EU countries.
If they try to circumvent GDPR, they would get fined so hard Serena Williams would slap Ohanian to the other side of the tennis court.
“Social media website receives record fine for GDPR violation”, I’m sure we’ve seen that headline somewhere before…
Just installed Boost for Lemmy. I’m populating the communities now. This will take time but it looks good from here!
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Noice. I still use Reddit on desktop occasionally, but haven’t touched mobile since the api change.
ah yes, just like how the oh so mighty mods pissed their panties with the blackouts, really killed reddit too that one huh
Yeah I think it’s pretty clear at this point that 99% of reddit users don’t care about this, which is why reddit continues to thrive while lemmy is facing lower and lower user numbers
Is Lemmy? I’ve been pretty happy over here, frequent it often once I learned of it not long ago.
Do you mean lower growth in numbers? Lemmy.world recently posted users for August and it grew by a healthy amount.
I’m referring to this link that showed the active monthly users for lemmy as a whole across all instances trending downward
The numbers of comments is growing. I would take that as the reliable engagement metric. The falling number of active users could be a sign of people settling on a main account.
I disagree. I think more ppl are leaving Reddit each day. My irl friends are bailing on it one by one.
I also feel the same, Lemmy is well…,. an echo chamber supporting Lemmy . Communties I used visit are doing just fine on reddit. But I a happy with the lower numbers and better quality of discussions
I mean, yeah. Have you been on reddit since the API stuff? It’s absolutely flooded with bots trying to make up the difference. Which is like, reddit playbook 2009. The broken links are pretty prolific too at this point.
It’s not going to like, close its doors, but it certainly isn’t in the position it was just a few months ago.
Digg and MySpace still technically exist
no difference, why you may ask?
just look at youtube, same shit different color, it keeps getting worse but they are still the king in terms of video hsoting
Yes but the emperor has no clothes, and more and more people are realising this.
Also reddit is made up primarily by users and the posts/comments they make, YouTube is made up by paid video creators. YouTubers don’t have anywhere else to go, but reddit users do and just need a critical mass somewhere else for reddit to go the way of digg.
i just hope, honestly, that you are right
Although it makes it harder for me, I actually quite like hitting a Google result on Reddit and seeing swaths of editted/deleted comments.
I hope you’re right and I’ll take your word for it. I don’t go to that site anymore.
I don’t like reddit… But here’s my question though, since lemmy is federated and all that data is available for access… what’s stopping anyone to integrate into the system, collect it all, analyze it and sell it?
Good thing it’s anonymized as fuck and lemmy does not have an official app that tracks it either. Scraping isn’t cheap and the upside is basically nothing.
Somebody is going to detect that and hopefully fediverse will defederate from those instances
No one is going to detect anything because there’s nothing to detect. There’s no difference between content consumption by a human and a robot. Anything public IS public. If you don’t want to be public, don’t use public platforms. Lemmy is already fully consumed by Google, for example.
So, what is the point of buying said data if it’s all available for access?
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Good job. You now have tons of data. Where do you show the ads?
The other websites you track the user to.
How are you tracking them to other sites? There’s not really anything that links a user account to an actual person in the data that gets federated.
