Destragras

It really depends on the subreddits you use. I was on reddit for almost 10 years and while I saw others complaining about power-trippers I never experienced it myself and that's after I've used several bigger subreddits.

As fun as it is to dunk on reddit and its moderation, this is definitely exaggerated lol

Thank you for doing that :D

To give some more information on this, reddit can “shadowban” users, which will cause all of the user’s submissions and comments following the shadowban to be automatically removed. Moderators of subreddits can see and can “Approve” these removed comments on subreddits they moderate, but only reddit admins can remove the shadowban from the user if they appeal. This shadowban system is often used on spammers so that they waste time spamming into the ether without realising it, however the shadowban would affect all of their comments and submissions, not ones with a specific link in them.

Reddit does also maintain a list of domains commonly used for spam purposes. I believe ibb.co is an example of a domain on that list that instantly gets any comment or submission it is in removed.

When a comment is removed, it is replaced with “[removed]” text, however this can only be seen by other users if there are any replies to the comment. Otherwise the comment disappears from view except to the user themselves and the subreddit’s moderators.

@Crass_Spektakel you should try testing this in places other than the subreddit you have seen this in. Subreddit moderators can apply their own link filters and automatically remove comments and submissions without notifying the user.

Yeah I am just having a look on my phone and it runs smoother than the “old new” design for me. The “classic” view it defaults to isn’t bad either.

It does not show the OP on the front page until you go into the comments or a subreddit, and for whatever reason has the comments button open a new tab which I don’t like.

With a few tweaks, I’d hapilly use it if I had to. I’d always prefer old reddit’s design though.

Do you know if they would have been able to do all of that on their own?

When the majority of the world has been using centralised platforms that don’t have the complexities federated platforms do, it’s understandable that there will be people that get confused over why there are several “Lemmy” servers, or why they can’t sign into a Lemmy server when they signed up on another, or why when they try to find a Lemmy community on their server they can’t see it, but they can in Google.

Somehow email providers have avoided this problem, I think because they are pre-installed on devices as the “Email” app.

Yeah the way the data is structured makes it looks like a straight dump from their databases that no doubt is automated.

The amount of data that they do provide in there is much more than I was expecting, compared to some other platforms I’ve seen that do the bare minimum by dumping some basic metadata for your account and that’s it.

Pros: The Fediverse would gain a significant amount of users and existing communities.

Cons: Those users would be redditors. While most I’ve seen are polite, some really love to hate others.

I recall reading that they won’t do anything as the comments are content that you willingly submitted. The most they will do is suggest you delete your account to “anonymise” them, but all that does is replace the username with “[deleted]”.

You can use a tool like Shreddit to edit and remove all of your comments in bulk. Feeding it your GDPR SAR folder will allow it to get past the 1000 comment backlog limit.