• StandingCat@feddit.funEnglish
      562·
      1 year ago

      While i agree r/science was terrible at this, it at least kept the conversation relevant. On new discoveries its nice to read about the science rather than: “here comes the end” or some fart joke.

      Id like to think this meme is directed towards user exodus rather than moderation to keep things on topic. I hope that the fediverse keeps things on topic and doesn’t complain too much about moderation when it’s necessary.

      • Metaright@kbin.social
        251·
        1 year ago

        If Reddit moderators only removed content for the sake of keeping things on topic, people wouldn’t hate the place so much. There’s a reason the mods over there are so universally maligned, and it’s not because they’re beacons of rationality and objective reasoning.

        • SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world
          5·
          1 year ago

          The best part is if you got notified a comment was removed you couldn’t see what the comment was and they wouldn’t tell you what rule it broke most of the time. If you asked they’d blow you off.

      • SupraMario@lemmy.world
        153·
        1 year ago

        All r/science was, was r/politics…every fucking “study” was from sudo science bullshit that just allowed everyone to circle jerk each other about their own bias. Hell that meav mod was just a repost bot that posted non stop from that psychology today website and then sold their account…and it’s still a fuckin mod.

          • SupraMario@lemmy.world
            71·
            1 year ago

            I just got eventually banned every time I posted that mvae or w/e the fuck that mods name was, was a bot just posting political shit hidden as “science”.

        • P03 Locke@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          15·
          1 year ago

          I quit that sub when I got the 100th study with a sample size of 20, talking about some clickbaity shit that was going to be silently disproven a few years later.

          It was always double-digit sample sizes.

          • SupraMario@lemmy.world
            63·
            1 year ago

            That shit was sooo fucking annoying. “We went to a klan rally, and polled the 10 white guys there” All said they vote republican…Title: “All republicans are KKK members study shows”…like what in the literal fuck

      • dhork@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        1 year ago

        Me, too. Is r/science still there? Last I heard they opened up the sub again, contingent on very specific benchmarks for Reddit making their app functional for moderating that I sincerely doubt they will meet …

    • swirle13@lemmy.world
      18·
      1 year ago

      Any time I’d use reveddit or similar sites to restore comments deleted from there, it was always stupid jokes or anecdotal stories, never anything directly about the post.

    • Contravariant@lemmy.world
      3·
      1 year ago

      I think /r/science is misunderstood. The moderators had quite a clear vision on the kind of discussion they wanted and the kind they did not. This caused some friction every time a post reached /r/all but I don’t see that as a bad thing.

      If anything that’s an ideal situation. People encounter a new community they’re interested in, break some rules in ignorance, the mods interfere and the violations are rolled back, the new users then either follow the rules or leave.

      Not sure how they’re doing with the API changes, pretty sure they had some automation going. Don’t think they’re compatible with reddit’s new view on making communities as interchangeable as possible to stop friction from interfering with ad revenue.

  • ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world
    711·
    1 year ago

    All it needs is a fuckton of awards next to one of the [removed] comments, so you know that what you missed was worth reading.

    Fuck the major subs. I don’t miss that arbitrary shit at all. And may I just add, fuck AwkwardtheTurtle in particular: seeing them get eaten by their own antics was just -chef’s kiss-

    • Freeman@feddit.de
      17·
      1 year ago

      What happened to him? I only know that this person was a (bad) mod on a whole lot of subs.

        • Pandoras_Can_Opener@mander.xyz
          2·
          1 year ago

          Wow. I’ve seen then mentioned a few times on here before but never knew the background. I’m a particular fan of them claiming they made john oliver famous through the spam.

          The cynic in me absolutely suspectes reddit kept them around just for the traffic they generated. But as soon as the protests started it seems to have been “not like this”.

  • Adeptfuckup@lemmy.world
    522·
    1 year ago

    Good, good…let the Reddit brain drain continue. Do not fear the Lemmy. The lemmy welcomes you. maniacal laugh

  • Gamey@lemmy.world
    19·
    1 year ago

    I am ashamed to admit it but I was happy to have my search resources back when the protest slowed down till I clicked on a few and found out people with my interests care about Reddits bs too, therewasn’t much left of many threads! 😂

    • Draconic NEO@lemmy.world
      8·
      1 year ago

      I used web.archive.org to browse the Reddit communities during the blackout, I still actually use it in most cases because it helps both with subreddits that are still private, but also ones where people have deleted their threads.

      It might not work with every single one, but it should work with the ones that appear in Google.

    • lorkano@lemmy.world
      27·
      1 year ago

      Also a lot of people remove all of their comments when quitting reddit. There are apps to do it, and thats what I did. So just from me there is over a thousand deleted comments to be encountered

        • microphone900@lemmy.ml
          7·
          1 year ago

          Same here, it took hours but it was satisfying to do. Thankfully, I already semi-regularly did that so it was only a few hundred comments that needed to be pruned.

      • ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world
        101·
        1 year ago

        When you delete a Reddit post or comment yourself, it says [deleted]. When it is removed by a subreddit mod, it says [removed] or if at the end of a comment chain, just doesn’t appear at all. Occasionally an admin removed comment will say [Removed by Reddit] instead of just [removed] but not always.

        I’m happy to explain that, though it seems like farting in the wind now that we’re all gone, lol.

        Shame I could do a better job of explaining it in three sentences than I have ever seen Reddit do anywhere, though.

      • TiKa444@feddit.de
        4·
        1 year ago

        Same here, but now I wonder if there was a app that edit all those comments in “fuck u_spez”