kbinMeta /kbin meta How does "Delete Account" work currently?
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    Yes, it's a manual process. You put in a request and the admins get to it when they have a chance.

    I'm guessing but I put in what I thought happened to the magazine owner over at https://kbin.social/m/AskKbin/t/771954/Questions-about-community-ownership-moderation-and-succession - in short the first admin (ernest here) becomes the new owner is my guess.

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  • abff08f4813c abff08f4813c 7 months ago 100%

    If a Kbin member requests deletion of their personal account and they happen to be a community owner, would ownership of that community default to the moderator with the next-longest tenure? That's how it worked at the bad place, is it the same way here?

    Not sure, but account deletion is a manual process here. I suspect what actually happens is that the magazine is tranferred to the default owner / first admin account. On kbin.social that would be ernest.

    See for example https://kbin.social/m/trans - a sub with few threads. I think the original owner successfully requested account deletion which is why that sub is owned by ernest now.

    See also https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/258090/How-does-Delete-Account-work-currently

    How long does account deletion normally take after the deletion is requested?

    Not sure of the historical average time. It's a manual process though so it will take some time for the admins to get to it.

    Also, do the posts get nuked along with the account, or do they remain on Kbin?

    I saw an example of this some months ago. It seems like the posts do get nuked, though with recent updates I'm not 100% certain that this is still the case. Again see /m/trans - most likely it was one of those subs where most of the threads were started by the owner posting, so when the owner's account was deleted, so to did those threads and posts.

    Actually it's worse than this - as the entire thread is gone, including other commenters' replies.

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  • RedditMigration Reddit Migration Just wanted a warning, Lemmy.World is perhaps worse than reddit at respecting their users
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  • abff08f4813c abff08f4813c 11 months ago 100%

    Hey OP, are you covered by the GDPR or CCPA?

    If so perhaps you could ask for a copy of your data that lemmy world has on your former accounts, and report to the regulator if they ignore your request. Not sure if federation helps or hurts - like could you say that lemmy world must have something of your data since other federated servers still have a copy of your content?

    Would be nice if there was a way to use the GDPR here to bring some addtional accountability to the lemmy world admins.

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  • RedditMigration Reddit Migration Just wanted a warning, Lemmy.World is perhaps worse than reddit at respecting their users
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  • abff08f4813c abff08f4813c 11 months ago 100%

    Would love to hear more about the ansible way.

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  • RedditMigration Reddit Migration Is it possible to submit a DMCA takedown notice for subreddit rules and sidebar content?
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  • abff08f4813c abff08f4813c 11 months ago 100%

    Perhaps you could assert a copyright claim to the extent that you own your own modified version of the text of the rules - at least the sockpuppet would have to change the wording.

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  • kbinMeta /kbin meta We need more / faster moderation
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  • abff08f4813c abff08f4813c 11 months ago 100%

    There's reason to be hopeful now. Ernest has posted an update about instance moderators who will be able to moderate mags that are either admin owned (and so otherwise wouldn't have other moderators to moderate them) or for those mags which are abandoned.

    https://kbin.social/m/kbinDevlog/t/598708/kbin-RTR-3-The-role-of-a-moderator-at-the-instance

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  • abff08f4813c abff08f4813c 11 months ago 100%

    Same here. I've been trying to find the time to do this for a while.

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  • politics politics Trump Shares Posts Pitching Himself as Speaker and Calling Kevin McCarthy a Traitor
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  • abff08f4813c abff08f4813c 12 months ago 100%

    Also, specific to the role of Speaker, he’s disqualified due to having been indicted of felonies with a term of more than two years.

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  • kbinMeta /kbin meta October: kbin.social planned technical outage
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  • abff08f4813c abff08f4813c 12 months ago 100%

    This is great to hear, regarding the live API on artemis.camp

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  • canada Canada Federal Court hears arguments at deportation hearing for truck driver in Humboldt Broncos crash
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  • abff08f4813c abff08f4813c 1 year ago 100%

    or prison for the chump you suckered into cheap labour.

    I'm not seeing the 'or' bit. The article says the driver was already sentenced to nine years back in 2019. So it might be prison and deportation.

    It also says he was a new permanent resident when the crime was committed. I'm surprised how they can so easily deport someone who has PR.

    allow this situation to happen and all its gonna be is a civil fine for you

    Alas, this is the real problem. And this case/hearing isn't going to affect the precedent on that, it will only affect the precedent for the future chumps.

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  • RedditMigration Reddit Migration Reddit faces content quality concerns after its Great Mod Purge
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  • abff08f4813c abff08f4813c 1 year ago 100%

    Reddit's approach to replacement mod appointments has further damaged community trust in Reddit

    Interesting that an article owned by the holding company of reddit (Arstechnica and reddit are both owned by Conde Nast) would be so critical of reddit.

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  • RedditMigration Reddit Migration Reddit Activity Plummeted After The Protests - by Adam Bumas
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  • abff08f4813c abff08f4813c 1 year ago 100%

    The one thing I never understood is why did the Oliver subs go back to normal instead of sticking with Oliver. Finally, interest was lost in the Oliver jokes and traffic was going down. So it would have been the perfect time to enforce Oliver and cut into the ads traffic that way. News articles at the time didn't show any indication that this was another moved forced by reddit admins so why did the mods seemingly cave in without cause?

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  • kbin /kbin The Kbin Experience. The Best Worst Way to Interact with the Fediverse.
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  • abff08f4813c abff08f4813c 1 year ago 100%

    IIRC the official reason was that some automated anti-spam code accidentally caught the kbin user agent and mistakenly added it to a block list, and the lemmy.ml admins were busy and didn't see it for over a week - but once one of them noticed it was promptly fixed.

    Also, I recall this being specific to lemmy.ml - other instances run by other admins like lemmy.world and lemmy.ca weren't affected.

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  • kbinMeta /kbin meta How does the kbin federation with Peertube work? Or, does it?
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    Following. Would love to get some peertube recommendations.

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  • kbinMeta /kbin meta Is Kbin dying? I wanted to address the deleted thread and provide some insight into the current situation.
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  • abff08f4813c abff08f4813c 1 year ago 100%

    Thank you @ernest for all you do and all you have done!

    Absolutely do not want to see you run yourself into the ground over kbin matters, your family and your health come first.

    I don't question your judgement, but I think the "step down" bit is a bit extreme, even if you fail to meet the deadline. Worst case, maybe let the community appoint a second-in-command temporarily to get some things moving along while you take a well deserved break?

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  • RedditMigration Reddit Migration Are there any mods in here?
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  • abff08f4813c abff08f4813c 1 year ago 100%

    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.

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  • privacy Privacy Can we prevent cars from sending data to servers if we remove their antennae?
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    Hopefully they just haven’t thought about that yet

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  • abff08f4813c abff08f4813c 1 year ago 100%

    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?)

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  • abff08f4813c abff08f4813c 1 year ago 100%

    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.

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  • kbinMeta /kbin meta How's the progress on allowing users to adopt magazines with inactive mods?
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    I was hoping that perhaps the folks behind @admin could help out here as a stopgap measure (at least to clean up spam in unmodded magazines) - but then I realized that the admin hasn't been online in over a month :/

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  • kbinMeta /kbin meta Lots of new spam
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  • abff08f4813c abff08f4813c 1 year ago 100%

    A lot of spam seems to be coming from one-off instances via federation. Makes it easier to stop (the admins can just defederate once an instance is identified as a spammer w/o having to get into the tricky question of getting involved with the moderation of other magazines) but it also means new user restrictions aren't enough by themselves.

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  • sciencefiction Science Fiction Any sci-fi with aliens where humans are not the less advanced race?
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  • abff08f4813c abff08f4813c 1 year ago 100%

    David Weber’s Honorverse and Mother of Demons by Eric Flint both come to mind. There is also the Little Fuzzy series by H. Beam Piper.

    Edit: Also, The Legacy of Heorot by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle.

    Honorable mention also to Dragons Egg by Robert L. Forward (humans start out more advanced in the beginning but get surpassed) and the Uplift Storm trilogy omnibus (or books 4-6) from David Brin (humans aren’t the most advanced in the entire universe but are in the planet that the stories take place on).

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  • kbinMeta /kbin meta Do we have a mechanism to deal with absent mods yet?
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  • abff08f4813c abff08f4813c 1 year ago 100%

    Any updates on this general mechanism? Another, larger magazine now needs help: https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/377620/Seems-like-m-RedditMigration-is-currently-unmoderated

    Btw - really appreciate everything you've done. I know how hard it can be to keep up with all the requests and tags, you must be utter swamped.

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  • abff08f4813c abff08f4813c 1 year ago 100%

    @TheArstaInventor

    Should be available for all moderators, owners should atleast have an optional option to enable that.

    Seems like a feature request for codeberg, I suppose.

    And what happened to the requesting subs function? When is that coming out?

    I thought this would have been covered by an existing feature request but I can't find it on codeberg.

    What's really odd is that I am sub'd to this magazine but I didn't see this post until I searched for @TheArstaInventor (for an unrelated thing). Getting worried that this magazine is effectively unmoderated, but would be happy to see someone like @TheArstaInventor get added as a third mod here.

    This magazine is filling up with spam pretty quick so it is kind of urgent.

    @OvergrownSkeleton @ernest

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  • nottheonion Not The Onion Jan. 6 Rally Organizer Created Her Own Mugshot Because She Felt Left Out
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  • abff08f4813c abff08f4813c 1 year ago 76%

    This

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  • fediverse Fediverse Dethroning lemmy.ml, lemm.ee rises as the second most active instance
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    Pretty impressive! Wonder where kbin instances fit in those stats.

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  • kbinMeta /kbin meta What happened to the feature that was supposed to come soon, regarding requesting inactive subs similar to r/RedditRequest?
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    Did you ever hear back about this? I was asking about this for /m/RedditMigration, see https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/377620/Seems-like-m-RedditMigration-is-currently-unmoderated - it's pretty bad that we have such a large magazine that's effectively unmoderated right now.

    The first time this happened for that sub, we were able to directly appeal to Ernest and he added an extra moderator, but that was before he took a step back, and I wasn't sure how the new system was supposed to work.

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  • news News Donald Trump mugshot released after former US president surrenders at Fulton jail over election charges – live
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  • abff08f4813c abff08f4813c 1 year ago 100%

    Here’s the formal charging document: https://d3i6fh83elv35t.cloudfront.net/static/2023/08/CRIMINAL-INDICTMENT-Trump-Fulton-County-GA.pdf

    It spells out the accused violations that are before a court of law to rule on.

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  • kbinMeta /kbin meta Seems like /m/RedditMigration is currently unmoderated.
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    moderator pruning.

    In this specific case I'm not advocating for removing any of the existing mods - there was a time period when the original owner of the magazine was active, and then a time gap when the other moderator was around. Just currently we have a gap where neither seems active.

    But who's to say that in a few months time, a new third mod would not be inactive, while the first two mods would have returned?

    I think it'd help to start emailing notifications if they're not checked within a certain period of time.

    Agreed.

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  • kbinMeta /kbin meta Had trouble posting, but I renewed my IP address and now it seems to work (EDIT: It's not working again)
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    Thanks! I still can't see it in mine, but confirmed it does show up when logged out from incognito. I guess it's the same issue as reported in https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/364055/Unable-to-post-Thread-or-Photo

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    Posting as a link didn't work for me.

    I tried that with https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/377620/Seems-like-m-RedditMigration-is-currently-unmoderated but got the same 50x error and the link topic is still not showing up in kbinMeta

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  • kbinMeta /kbin meta Had trouble posting, but I renewed my IP address and now it seems to work (EDIT: It's not working again)
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    "Initials" by "Florian Körner", licensed under "CC0 1.0". / Remix of the original. - Created with dicebear.comInitialsFlorian Körnerhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearKB
    /kbin meta abff08f4813c 1 year ago 100%
    Seems like /m/RedditMigration is currently unmoderated. kbin.social

    Spam from the past week on that sub hasn't been dealt with, despite multiple users reporting it. I tried to message the two moderators directly, still waiting for a response. That said, the last activity for either moderator was from last month. Thoughts on what can be done? I can volunteer to mod that sub until one of the regular moderators returns if there's no better solution (though considering how big that magazine is, I'm not sure if one person is enough).

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    canada Canada Group calls for Facebook, Instagram boycott on Aug. 23 and 24
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    It did work well for reddit imvho as it's understood that reddit definitely lost revenue and users as a result - but that might also not apply to FB so well in this case; as the reddit one was global rather than specific to a single country, and reddit was already unprofitable to begin with - whereas this is boycotting what's likely an already unprofitable line for a very profitable company.

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  • abff08f4813c abff08f4813c 1 year ago 100%

    Just saw something similar. Ironically I was trying to post to this magazine.

    https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/365293/50x-error-on-trying-to-report-spam-to-moderators does show up if you go to the URL directly and you can find it via my profile, but it doesn't show up in the magazine itself when viewing by the newest posts as I would have expected.

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    50x error on trying to report spam to moderators

    I got this when trying to report [https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/364640/Trendy-Reaction-Videos](https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/364640/Trendy-Reaction-Videos) and also separately got the same when trying to report [https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/364628/Home](https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/364628/Home)

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    canada Canada Do media aggregators have a duty to provide links to public news sources in emergencies?
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    Just goes to show how low the new owner is...

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    Why is former Twitter even doing that? I thought only G and FB were affected, as it was based on company size. Supposedly Twitter is (still) not profitable, even.

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  • climate Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics. The US climate law is fueling a factory frenzy. Here’s the latest tally
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    Link says it's not found for me

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  • RedditMigration Reddit Migration Russia fines Reddit for first time over 'banned content,' RIA says
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    Perhaps the one and only time I'd be rooting for reddit...

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    Body found in Tyndall Park home after fire: Winnipeg police | CBC News https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/police-investigating-after-body-found-tyndall-park-fire-1.6927925

    The Winnipeg Police Service is investigating a house fire in the Tyndall Park Neighbourhood after the body of an adult male was found late Thursday night. My condolences to the family of that unfortunate man.

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    Malicious Compliance abff08f4813c 1 year ago 97%
    Shorts not allowed as part of the school uniform? No problem!

    Not my own story, but my original retelling of a public one. Back in the summer of 2017, Devon (in the UK) was suffering from a heat wave. The boys suffered the unbearable heat in trousers. Girls were luckier - skirts were part of the school uniform. One boy, Ryan, asked his teacher for an exception due to the heat, but was told that all clothes worn must be a part of the approved school uniform, without exception. Another boy who asked was given a sarcastic reply: "Well, you can wear a skirt if you like." *Cue malicious compliance.* The next day, Ryan came to school in his uniform. Every item he wore was on the approved list - including his official school skirt. Pretty soon, nearly all the lads were wearing skirts. A few days later, after the worst of the heat wave was over, the headteacher announced that shorts would be allowed as part of the official school uniform starting the next school year. **TL;DR: School won't allow boys to wear shorts in extreme summer heat because it's not on the approved uniform list but sarcastically points out that they can wear skirts. Boys wear said skirts. School gives in and adds shorts to the list.** Original articles: [https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/jun/22/teenage-boys-wear-skirts-to-school-protest-no-shorts-uniform-policy](https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/jun/22/teenage-boys-wear-skirts-to-school-protest-no-shorts-uniform-policy) [https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/jun/23/exeter-schools-uniform-resolve-melts-after-boys-skirt-protest](https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/jun/23/exeter-schools-uniform-resolve-melts-after-boys-skirt-protest)

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    Reddit’s only free iOS app icons are ugly now www.theverge.com

    The best icons are behind a Reddit Premium paywall. To add insult to injury.

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    Reddit Migration abff08f4813c 1 year ago 100%
    Rip Teddit

    Today I just noticed, after trying to convert a reddit link (from this sub!), that teddit is no longer working. We all knew this was coming. Even so...

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    reddit data retrieval thoughts

    When I first started the timeline thread for reddit GDPR/CCPA requests, [https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/50981/Reddit-Data-Retrieval-Request-timeline-thread](https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/50981/Reddit-Data-Retrieval-Request-timeline-thread) it seemed virtually no one got theirs. Now, 11 out of 15 have received it. I even got mine via email, despite being permabanned and then deleting my account afterwards. Also, they are really pushing it, but so far no one seems to have gone over the deadline. I do note that I seem to have gotten mine later than some others who put in requests later than I but got theirs earlier. In my case they were just one day shy of 30 days - but I did a request under 'Other' rather than GDPR or CCPA. Hopefully this provides hope for others who want to grab their archive from reddit.

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    Ordinary redditors are feeling the pain as well. teddit.adminforge.de

    The protests worked, and so did moving/editing/deleting our old content. As one person complains, > > > I'm not here for Reddit, but for the aggregation of niche communities. I follow a lot of obscure manga that have relatively small followings and recently I got into an IT job which opened a lot of technological exploration for me. The worst part about this change isn't even that we are losing 3rd party apps, but that only members of the communities I frequent are the ones who care enough to protest. Can't tell you how many times now I've looked something up on Reddit and find an answer to the issue I have, only to realize that the community is closed or the post is deleted in protest. Now we are stuck in this limbo where protests seem to have lost their steam, niche communities are being overthrown and killed because of that greedy little pigboy. Seriously, fuck spez. > >

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    Reddit plagued with 1-star App Store reviews over API debacle as users search for 0-star button 9to5mac.com

    This is a great idea. Let's get as many one-star reviews up there as we can! How low can you go-oo-oo-oo

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    As Reddit protests turn to porn-bombing, advertisers face increasing brand safety concerns www.thedrum.com

    Protests on the social platform have entered a new phase, with users shirking the platform’s NSFW content rules en masse. The development has some media buyers on high alert, experts say.

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    Reddit protest plunges user engagement, site activity and ad portal visits techcrunch.com

    Reddit protest by its community moderators has impacted user engagements, traffic and visits to its ad portal since its beginning on June 12.

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    Reddit Migration abff08f4813c 1 year ago 0%
    POLL: Should we sticky some PSA? We need to warn folks about reddit's trickery.

    Should we sticky some articles? Followup to [https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/84223/How-to-get-the-word-out-on-how-to-delete](https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/84223/How-to-get-the-word-out-on-how-to-delete) Today I saw a handful of posts from folks who were trying to delete all their content from reddit, including another person who failed and now can't delete their content after their account was deleted. I am thinking of two options here. First, as per the title, we can sticky the best articles made in this magazine, so the first thing a new joiner sees is the warning about the 1000 index limit and the second on how to overcome it. The other way would be to stick an article referring folks to a new magazine. If you look at the first article ever to this magazine from the owner, [https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/12303/Welcome-to-RedditMigration](https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/12303/Welcome-to-RedditMigration) , this magazine was meant to cover all things, news as well as technical questions. However, I fear that the high volume of important news is drowning out the technical aspects. Therefore, it may make sense to copy or link some content into a separate magazine so it is easier to find and to refer to. Not to split the magazine, more like a BestOfRedditMiggirationTechnicalAnswers if that makes sense. Thoughts folks? Especially interested in hearing about this idea from the mods [@tchambers](https://kbin.social/u/tchambers) & [@Shortcake](https://kbin.social/u/Shortcake)

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    Malicious Compliance abff08f4813c 1 year ago 97%
    On The State of /r/PICS: Profanity, Offensive Content, and An Open Letter : r/pics https://teddit.adminforge.de/r/pics/comments/14jl5n8/on_the_state_of_rpics_profanity_offensive_content/

    Great work by the mods. They maliciously comply with reddit by posting an open letter reminding subscribers to tag NSFW appropriately on their content and especially point out that if folks forgot to do this then this will force them under reddit's own existing rules to go NSFW.

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    Reddit Migration abff08f4813c 1 year ago 100%
    Post ban and deletion weirdness

    After deleting my account, which was permabanned, on old dot reddit dot com it still shows up with the user suspended message. On regular reddit dot com on a desktop browser, it instead shows up as blocked. I can continue to view the profile, but then it just says something went wrong and no content shows up. (Because it's not there, it was deleted!) Great job reddit, you can't even handle deleted accounts properly! A sort of follow-up to [https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/85486/Permaban-roll-call](https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/85486/Permaban-roll-call)

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    u/Awkwardtheturtle posting an update on her reddit ban https://teddit.adminforge.de/r/AlzheimersGroupBackup/comments/1478uaz/off_topic_but_awkwardtheturtle_admitting_that_he/

    u/Awkwardtheturtle somehow posting an update on her reddit ban ... on reddit itself if i'm reading the pic correctly. Not sure how that's possible, maybe someone saw an edited post from her?

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    Maybe Reddit’s slowing revenue growth is partially responsible for the company trying to lock things down. - The Verge www.theverge.com

    According to The Information, Reddit’s revenues were up 38 percent in 2022, but that’s down from the “more than doubling of revenue” it saw from 2020 to 2021. That said, The Information says Reddit still earned “about $670 million” in revenues last year. I don’t know if getting back the $10 million in “pure infrastructure costs” CEO Steve Huffman told me that it takes to support third-party apps is going to make all that much of a difference.

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    Permaban roll call

    Shout-out to my sisters and brothers-in-arms! Report here if you got permabanned ("permanently suspended") while protesting Reddit, participating in the blackout, or for any related reason.

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    As Reddit Crushes Protests, Its User Traffic Returns to Normal www.pcmag.com

    User visits and time spent on the social media platform normalize after traffic to Reddit briefly dipped last week during the blackout, according to SimilarWeb. Edit: but also see [https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/88139/Reddit-traffic-returning-normal-sort-of](https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/88139/Reddit-traffic-returning-normal-sort-of) which explains that ad visits are still waaay down - and continue going downhill.

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    How to get the word out on how to delete everything on Reddit?

    So reddit has a 1000 index limit, which fools you. You think you deleted everything and your profile is empty. But you didn't get it all. I keep seeing articles like [https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/77406/Why-doesn-t-power-delete-suite-edit-all-my-comments](https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/77406/Why-doesn-t-power-delete-suite-edit-all-my-comments) and [https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/79420/Would-reporting-my-deleted-comments-to-mods-help-get-them](https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/79420/Would-reporting-my-deleted-comments-to-mods-help-get-them) We need to get the word out. There is a way to delete all of your posts and comments, and it doesn't need to rely on a GDPR request to reddit (though having the GDPR archive certainly helps). More importantly though, we need to get the word out about the 1k limit. This almost got me too - luckily I had a few posts where I had commented, so I could see even though all my comments were taken care of in my profile, that some comments got missed, because I still saw them on my posts. But how can we do this? How do we make sure to spread the word so folks don't misunderstand tools like PDS and then wonder why a bunch of their content is still up; even worse, that they already deleted their account and now have no way to go back and take it from reddit. What can we do? Ideas?

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    C-18 and reddit

    Does this bill also affect reddit in Canada? [https://kbin.social/m/Canada/p/520103/Well-We-had-our-final-vote-on-C-18-today-And](https://kbin.social/m/Canada/p/520103/Well-We-had-our-final-vote-on-C-18-today-And) Seems like it should. If so, has reddit officially responded about it?

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    Breaking Down Barriers: Starting today, all Subscribers to r/PoliticalHumor are now members of the Landed Gentry. - r/PoliticalHumor https://reddit.adminforge.de/r/PoliticalHumor/comments/14ecgji/breaking_down_barriers_starting_today_all/

    the r/PoliticalHumor mod team would like to announce that starting today we are bringing pure democracy to the subreddit: All users are now mods, and as such, are part of the "Landed Gentry". Welcome to the club.

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    Poll: Power Delete Suite users: are you saving your content?

    And if you are backing up your content, are you checking the file afterwards to make sure it has all of the content you wanted to save? I tried PDS and it actually overwrote some entries but then failed to save them, causing me to lose content. But it turns out I also tried from an older version. Would love to hear about success stories from folks who have tried PDS, confirmed their CSVs have their content, and are now ready to start reposting some OC to the fediverse!

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    PSA: Here's exactly what to do if you hit the 1000 indexing limit and it stops you from erasing all your posts.

    This is a followup to my previous PSA, [https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/47320/PSA-If-you-have-more-than-1000-posts-more-than](https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/47320/PSA-If-you-have-more-than-1000-posts-more-than) That one warned you about the problem, which seems to have caught a lot of people unawares and caused a lot of confusion in general. (Thank you reddit!!! /s) Now here's what you can do about it. If you happen to know that you're only slightly over the limit in one category, odds are good that one of the modified versions of Power Delete Suite will work for you. (You want one with at least an additional 5.1s delay - the original PDS fails to delete/overwrite a lot of stuff because it tries too fast and reddit rejects the changes and imposes a cooldown period.) PDS will delete your comments and submissions (posts), and it checks all four categories - new, hot, top, and controversial. So if you say only had 1001 or 1002, odds are good that the last few missing from new would show up in top (if old and upvoted a lot) or controversial (if old and downvoted a lot), and thus you still get everything wiped. In theory you could get really lucky here. Say you have exactly 3000 comments - your newest 1000 have never been upvoted or downvoted, your oldest 1000 have all been heavily downvoted, and your middle 1000 have been heavily upvoted. Then PDS would get the newest, the most controversial 1000 - which happen to be the oldest, and the top 1000 - which happen to be the middle. All 3000 comments gone. But what to do if you have A LOT beyond the limit? Say more than 4000? Also keep in mind, I was just shy of 1500 comments, and I wasn't so lucky - this method didn't get everything for me, despite not even hitting 2000. A common tip is to search for your reddit self on google. This works really well to find more stuff but won't catch everything. I speak from experience here. The right answer is to do a GDPR or CCPA request to reddit, and then they will have to give you your data, your complete history. You can then use this to wipe everything clean. However, folks who started this around or after the blackout aren't getting timely responses. (As late as the end of last April, it came back in a few hours. Now, everyone who has requested has yet to hear back.) I'm skeptical that we'll get timely responses here. So the other right answer used to be to use the Pushshift API instead (hat-tip to 1chemistdown - [https://kbin.social/u/1chemistdown](https://kbin.social/u/1chemistdown) ). That API archived a copy of reddit - and unlike reddit, it didn't have the 1000 indexing limit. So you could find even older content just by searching yourself using that API. The bad news is that this no longer works as Pushshift was forced to shutdown by reddit, and they won't be reopening normal API access for regular users. The good news is that before all this went down, Pushshift published torrents of their raw data. Up to the end of 2022. You can just download this, and then extract your own post and comment history. The Pushshift torrent is 1.66TB, compressed. But the Pushshift team also released really good scripts so it's easy to extract your own info without having to uncompress the full archive like you traditionally would with a zip file. Instead, their scripts uncompress a small segment at a time in RAM and process that, so you just need enough space to store the compressed files and enough compute power to process it. (Spoiler alert - most modern laptops have enough compute power. My cheap \<$1k laptop did.) Even better - you can selectively download specific files from a torrent. Pushshift's torrent is broken up into a bunch of files, two each per sub (one for comments and one for submissions). So if you know which subs you frequented, you can just pick and download those instead of having to download the full archive. So grab your reddit data from the Pushshift torrent, use their scripts to print out the complete list of every comment and every post that you have ever created on reddit, and then feed that to something like the reddit-migration script or a modified shreddit script to completely wipe everything. 100% of everything. No need to depend on the benevolence of reddit to hand you your history back first. (For those in the EU or California, I'm sure reddit will get back to us eventually, but you'll forgive me for being more skeptical when these powerful laws don't apply.) The specific details on where to grab everything, including links to the torrent and to the various github scripts and even patches that I wrote, is on my other article - [https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/59451/Finally-Managed-to-erase-all-1477-of-my-comments](https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/59451/Finally-Managed-to-erase-all-1477-of-my-comments) TL;DR - you can grab your entire reddit history from a torrent published by pushshift up to the end of 2022, and use that data to overwrite/delete your content beyond the 1000 index limit on reddit.

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    Reddit's CEO's Response Is What No Leader Should Ever Do https://www.inc.com/jason-aten/reddits-ceo-faced-intense-criticism-over-killing-a-popular-third-party-app-apollo-his-response-is-what-no-leader-should-ever-do.html

    Reddit's CEO Faced Intense Criticism Over Killing a Popular Third-Party App, Apollo. His Response Is What No Leader Should Ever DoThe company's new API access fees are supposed to generate revenue. Instead, they're alienating everyone. Inc.

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    Is it possible to attach and upload files to kbin that are not images?

    I have some diff/patch files that I want to share with the RedditMigration sub but can't figure out how to upload them.

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    Finally! Managed to erase all 1477 of my comments!

    Okay, finally I am confident that I got them all! Here's what I did First, I got a torrent client set up, and went to [https://academictorrents.com/details/c398a571976c78d346c325bd75c47b82edf6124e/tech&filelist=1](https://academictorrents.com/details/c398a571976c78d346c325bd75c47b82edf6124e/tech&filelist=1) It turns out that you can just download individual subs from the torrent instead of the whole thing. I know exactly which ones I first commented on, it was a small list and the subs themselves were pretty small too at the time. So downloading just those subs from the torrent was pretty speedy and easy. After that I came up with a quick script (based on the example scripts by the pushshift team's github) at [https://github.com/Watchful1/PushshiftDumps](https://github.com/Watchful1/PushshiftDumps) to parse and find my comments and spit out the comment ids into a text file. Next, I modifed the super useful script at [https://github.com/luphoria/reddit-migration](https://github.com/luphoria/reddit-migration) one last time to accept a list of comment ids in a text file (instead of asking reddit for them), and then had it overwrite them all. Looks like I won't be needing that GDPR archive after all, thanks for nuttin reddit!! Hat-tip: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36038684](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36038684) Waiting for one sub to go public so I can finish erasing my content, then I can delete knowing I didn't leave a single thing behind. Edit: Here are the patches btw. For reddit-migration: [https://kbin.social/m/DataDumps/t/65055/reddit-migration-patch](https://kbin.social/m/DataDumps/t/65055/reddit-migration-patch) And for the pushshift scripts: [https://kbin.social/m/DataDumps/t/65054/pushdump-patch](https://kbin.social/m/DataDumps/t/65054/pushdump-patch)

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    Reddit Data Retrieval Request timeline thread

    I thought about it and it'll be helpful a thread going of folks who made a request, and when they got their data. To help give other folks an idea of when they might here back, if they put a request in now. I put my request in the day before the blackout. Still waiting to hear back from Reddit. Edit: Just FYI I ended up deleting my account before hearing back on this. If I ever do hear back I will update on here, but at this point I'm seriously doubting that will happen. Edit2: 2023-07-10 - they got back to me. Since I no longer have a reddit account this was emailed to the email address I registered the account with.

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    PSA: If you have more than 1000 posts, more than 1000 comments, chances are, if you think you deleted/overwrote/shredded everything, you're probably wrong.

    I just spent all day today fighting with reddit, trying to get all my comments deleted/overwritten: [https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/45417/Anyone-have-experience-with-deleting-comments-to-see-older-comments#entry-comment-190482](https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/45417/Anyone-have-experience-with-deleting-comments-to-see-older-comments#entry-comment-190482) It's not just me, someone else reported the same, though using a different tool: [https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/46805/Strange-phenomenon-while-deleting-my-comments](https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/46805/Strange-phenomenon-while-deleting-my-comments) Basically, reddit has the most ridiculous api ever! A 1000 limit on viewing .. well basically anything. Try to go further back, and you can't. The tools and scripts and websites we are using to delete, they are hitting that limit and can't go past it. My own reddit is only 5 years old and I hit this. I imagine that many folks where, the ex-redditors who had 12, 17 year old accounts, you probably didn't get everything on your way out. Unless of course, you had a data retrieval request made to reddit, and reddit responded with your data. Only then are tools like shreddit and websites like shreddit.com able to completely wipe out your history. Or else you knew about this somehow already and used an external manager like eternity - [https://github.com/jc9108/eternity](https://github.com/jc9108/eternity) - to save a copy of your posts before they got lost to the 1k limit. Worst of all, it's explained that deleting items does not rebuild the list - so you can't see the older stuff by deleting newer stuff. I'm hoping that private/public transition is an exception to this and it'll rebuild my lists when that happens. Maybe then I can go far back enough to delete everything.

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    This doesn't work: Anyone have experience with deleting comments to see older comments in your profile on Reddit?

    Edit2: Okay, finally I am confident that I got them all! Got a torrent client set up, and went to [https://academictorrents.com/details/c398a571976c78d346c325bd75c47b82edf6124e/tech&filelist=1](https://academictorrents.com/details/c398a571976c78d346c325bd75c47b82edf6124e/tech&filelist=1) It turns out that you can just download individual subs. I know exactly which ones I first commented on, it was a small list and the subs themselves were pretty small too. So downloading just those subs from the torrent was pretty speedy and easy. After that I came up with a quick script (based on the example scripts by the pushshift team's github) at [https://github.com/Watchful1/PushshiftDumps](https://github.com/Watchful1/PushshiftDumps) I was able to modify the super useful script at [https://github.com/luphoria/reddit-migration](https://github.com/luphoria/reddit-migration) one last time to accept a list of comment ids in a text file, and then overwrite them all. Looks like I won't be needing that GDPR archive after all, thanks for nuttin reddit!! Hat-tip: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36038684](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36038684) Edit: confirmed with someone in the PSA thread that this doesn't work. See [https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/47320/PSA-If-you-have-more-than-1000-posts-more-than#entry-comment-200913](https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/47320/PSA-If-you-have-more-than-1000-posts-more-than#entry-comment-200913) Original post below: I'm having the same problem as the commenter here: [https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/41129/Just-started-the-process-of-editing-all-of-my-Reddit#entry-comment-180921](https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/41129/Just-started-the-process-of-editing-all-of-my-Reddit#entry-comment-180921) In my case I can see my comment history much further, but still about six months short of when I created my reddit account. My post history seems go to back to my very first post, but I have a lot fewer of those. For now I just edited my comments, but I'm wondering if I should also do a delete. If I delete say 400 of my newest comments, will I see 400 more older comments show up in my profile? And if so, how long will it take to refresh? I'm willing to experiment and try and find out for myself, but was just curious if others had already experienced this. (Of course, if it actually doesn't help - deleting new comments won't bring back the older history for me to backup and edit and delete - then I'd rather not delete anything at all and just leave my farewell message everywhere.) I adapted this script to do what I needed, including printing out a count of comments found, as well as the permalink of each comment (so I could double check the date). [https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/16226/Wrote-a-script-to-edit-all-my-posts](https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/16226/Wrote-a-script-to-edit-all-my-posts)

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    Just realized the lie about reddit api pricing

    So it's well known now that the developer of Apollo estimated the new API pricing would cost $20 million a year. For a source, see the title of [https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/31/23743993/reddit-apollo-client-api-cost](https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/31/23743993/reddit-apollo-client-api-cost) But from [https://apnews.com/article/reddit-blackout-steve-huffman-ceo-api-0a4f7b344ecfbf50c924b030c344c55e](https://apnews.com/article/reddit-blackout-steve-huffman-ceo-api-0a4f7b344ecfbf50c924b030c344c55e) the price from supporting third party apps is $!0 million a year. And presumably this is all third party apps combined! > > > Huffman says the “pure infrastructure costs” of supporting these apps costs Reddit about $10 million each year. > > Something's very not balanced here. That one app would have paid for Reddit's third party infra costs twice over. I can not remember which ones now (can anyone help me out here actually?), but I think a few apps said they'd try to make it work with the new pricing. Which means Reddit likely stands to make a huge pot of money once the new API changes take effect, in the short term. Even if Reddit loses the best subs, the best communities, the best users, and the moderation goes to where the sun don't shine, I could see that new revenue boosting investors confidence enough to lead to a successful (if slightly smaller) IPO. If Reddit goes downhill and loses lots of value afterwards, well, spez has already made his quick buck, so I doubt he wouldn't feel very sentimental about it. Folks, please explain to me why I'm wrong. Please.

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    Fediverse Data Retrevial Requests?

    Was just curious... if I wanted to take my content off from the fediverse (or perhaps just from a particular instance), is there something I can use to download my data in bulk? Or would I have to go through my profile and copy each article and post manually?

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    Shreddit but with a local backup. Possible?

    Does anyone know how to modify Shreddit? Like from [https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/34112/Updated-Reddit-is-quietly-restoring-deleted-AND-overwritten-posts-and#entry-comment-140501](https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/34112/Updated-Reddit-is-quietly-restoring-deleted-AND-overwritten-posts-and#entry-comment-140501) [https://github.com/jdbassa/Shreddit](https://github.com/jdbassa/Shreddit) [https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python-shreddit-git](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python-shreddit-git) I really want to use this, but I have a couple of additional requirements: First, to save a copy of my content locally on my hard disk (somewhere, anywhere, any format is fine) before overwriting and deleting the comment/post. So that I can manually repost on kbin/fediverse later. Second, one particular post and comment I'd like to exclude from deletion. I've already overwritten with my good-bye reddit message and - as it was my most popular post ever - like to leave it up so folks who used to go back to that post to see my advice will know where to follow up to find me again. I'd actually prefer to leave all my comments up with just the modified message but I think I have too many for the tools to delete automatically - instead I'd have to delete, wait a bit for the queue to refresh, then delete again as older comments start showing up on the API. And I'm not confident that Reddit will get back to me before July 1 about my data retrevial request, which might make automatically deleting much harder. Anyone know of a modified Shreddit that can handle these two requirements?

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    Reddit Migration abff08f4813c 1 year ago 100%
    Some of my comments aren't appearing here.

    Hey folks, I tried replying to a handful of comments on see [https://kbin.social/m/reddit@lemmy.ml/t/34167/Reddit-is-restoring-deleted-posts#entry-comment-141186](https://kbin.social/m/reddit@lemmy.ml/t/34167/Reddit-is-restoring-deleted-posts#entry-comment-141186) (where it was stated that GDPR doesn't apply to Reddit posts) I can see those comments under my own profile but when I reload the article my replies don't show up. Any idea what's going on?

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