Props to the mods over there!
Not gonna link the names, but for real, these guys belong in some kind of hall of fame. Stay strong, fuck /u/spez.
edit for future people: It looks like the android subreddit made a whole server! It can be found here: https://lemdro.id/
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Makes a lot of sense since it’s a sub for power users. The proportion of 3rd party app users is probably among the highest at Reddit
yup .
It’s so nice to see some subreddits sticking to their guns and ideals and push through until real change happens! r/Nintendo is still down too, which was a nice surprise when I was looking around to see the state of my subs on Reddit.
Oh wow, /r/nintendo stayed down through a Nintendo Direct that announced a new Mario game? That’s a lot more chutzpah than I’d expect from a subreddit focused on a game console.
That’s indeed impressive.
r/Games didn’t even have the balls to shutdown because “summer game fest is more important than a protest”
Hot damn they mean business. NICE!
They are more based than /r/pcgaming, /r/pcmasterrace, /r/linux, and /r/buildapc. Got my respect. To see them still holding strong is not at all what I would have expected. PC community pretty much completely dropped the ball.
I credit /u/1338hax for it.
Damn that’s amazing. Lot of the subs I expected would be locked down like /r/pcgaming, /r/pcmasterrace, and /r/buildapc are the ones who ended up not caring despite thinking it’d align with the values of openness when it comes to hardware and software. I suppose it isn’t a surprise given that they were probably the ones buying scalper prices for GPUs and then scalper prices from nvidia themselves. Even /r/patientgamers who are supposed to be patient… were not patient enough to rush to go back to normal like they were snatching up preorders.
But, it’s /r/Nintendo that ended up stepping up to the plate. Respect.
For the record, I know this because I’m going through my old comments and turning them into an ad for lemmy 😅
Just a heads up
Go to reveddit.com and throw your username in there. Check if your comments aren’t being shadow removed.
Not much you could do about it, tho, but I noticed that the comments I edited to make an ad for Lemmy were all removed. They show up for me, but for other users it shows as “removed”.
Reveddit lets you know that.
Just checked mine. Apparently, some of my edited comments were removed, while others stayed up (with identical content).
Subreddits where my edited comments (in new) were removed unconditionally:
- /r/linguistics
- /r/nottheonion
- /r/memes (only commented in that subreddit for a short time frame, so whatever auto-removal there is might only apply to edits to old comments)
- /r/eu4 (lots of removals, but 1 edited comment survived, no idea why, it’s neither the youngest nor oldest edited comment there)
Partial removal subreddits:
- /r/facepalm (some edited comments survived, at least one was reversed, didn’t notice a pattern, might be based on user reports or depend on which mod sees it)
- /r/pettyrevenge (edits of comments younger than about a month were removed, edits of older comments survived)
Also, looks like some subreddits that were private when I ran the edit script (like /r/MadeMeSmile) have since gone public, so I’ll have to re-run Power Delete Suite.
Of all places, /r/amiibo removed my edited post because they banned the term kbin.social. That was a jawdrop wtf moment for me lol.
Question for you - pretty soon here, I’m going to use PDS to edit all my comments with info about why it’s edited and redirection to the fediverse
I have some comments or posts that are guides, which I will have migrated over to Lemmy. Can I mass edit all my comments with PDS, then go back into reddit to select few individual posts/comments, and add a link to the specific Lemmy guide? Sorry if this doesn’t make sense lol
If you’re doing it manually, yes.
But you can also filter by subreddit with PDS and do a different edit if your guides are concentrated in a given sub.
PDS doesn’t append, tho, so yeah, if you’re doing it for each one of them, you’re probably have to do it manually, yea
Yea, so what I was thinking was edit all of them with PDS with a template I have, then go back manually to specific posts/guides and add links to the new guides. Sounds like that would work then, thx :)
You could just use Unicode lookalike characters instead. Guarantee they aren’t scanning for that:
lеmmу
That doesn’t actually say “lemmy.” They’re Unicode lookalike characters, not ASCII. CTRL+F for the word lemmy, that instance above won’t show up.
I’ve had the suspicion about my comments ever since I’ve posted kbin ads (only twice). Timely comments fitting the thread and zero reactions while the one I replied to gets 1000s of upvotes.
Oh well, it’ll be over next week anyway. Prepare for the wave!
Well played, Sir!
Doing a great service for the people. Reddit doesn’t deserve to keep content from people given how poorly they’ve treated the community as a whole
Agreed. I’ll use powerdeletesuite to edit all my posts/comments to this when Sync for Lemmy’s out in a few weeks:
Reddit has killed off third party apps and most bots along with their moderation tools, functionality, and accessibility features that allowed people with blindness and other disabilities to take part in discussions on the platform. All so they could show more ads in their non-functional app.
Consider moving to Lemmy/kbin, two better and compatible alternatives to reddit (picture explains why) that many subs and users have moved to: sub.rehab
Reddit Sync’s dev has turned the app into Sync for Lemmy (Android) instead, and Memmy for Lemmy (iOS) is heavily inspired by Apollo.
You only need one account on any Lemmy or kbin server/instance to access everything; doesn’t matter which because they’re all connected. Lemmy.world, Lemm.ee, vlemmy.net, kbin.social, fedia.io are all great for example.
The picture might be a bit out of date since beehaw defederated lemmy.world and multiple instances have defederated lemmy.ml
I hope you’re not doing this manually. Power Delete Suite can also do edits.
👀
I’ll check that out lol
So it can do edits without deletes?
r/Nintendo is still down too, which means even Mario’s had enough of spez and his bullshit.
And that dude has been talking crap/barrels from Donkey Kong going on 40 years now.
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Fuck yeah. Love hearing more of this news!
Would be nice if more of ‘em stayed shuttered, but we’ll take what we can get
Is that the official Subreddit for Nintendo? Or is it a fan base made?
If it is official that’s a big deal. 🤣
One of the mods of /r/Android here (/u/cooldude5500), tbh I’ve barely used reddit after the spezification. 'tis a nice change…
spezification
What a fantastic word
/r/android is resisting spezification
huh? what is a reddit? who is a “Spez”?
😁
Still super shitty that sync for reddit is vanishing soon. While it’s great that apparently it’s getting re-leveraged as a fediverse reader, still amazed at how poorly this API transition happened because Spez wants to be a knob
In case you’re stuck on Reddit, the Revanced Team decompiled the APK and made a version of Sync that lets you use your own API key. I’m not sure how well that will work, but I’m definitely going to try it out after The Final Day
It would be better if people switch to another platform instead of keeping supporting reddit.
Aw yus, that’s exactly what I wanted to hear. When I heard that they didn’t want to change the app to allow you to use your own API key I was scratching my head wondering why, I could exist under that daily API rate.
I might give it a go
I may be wrong but in one of the threads it was said that App Developers allowing users to use their own API Key was also against the agreement
Yeah, but it’s not the developer doing it, it’s a 3rd party who took apart the app and let YOU modify it.
Got a link? Or is it just a patch on ReVanced manager?
It’s just a patch in the Manager. You may need to download the free version APK from somewhere like APKMirror and patch that though (you can also disable ads so it’s like the Pro version), as there don’t seem to be any Pro APKs and you can’t patch an installed app without root.
I’m gonna hold off on this, since one of the steps involves making your own “app” in Reddit’s interface that’s tied to your user account. If Reddit’s admins consider bypassing the API shit this way to be a violation of TOS, that’s a can of worms I don’t feel like opening just yet.
I was hoping it’d be like Twidere for Twitter, which uses the client ID and secret of the official iPhone app.
Does that mean Reddit will be sending us fat API bills for using our own API key?
Yesn’t. If you use it barely then no, those bills will be tiny. If you are a poweruser, it’ll get expensive quickly.
They don’t have a payment method for me, so gl getting me to pay that bill, anyways. I think I’d rather go to collections than give Reddit a dime.
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Por que no los dos? If they want to send me to collections for the 25 cents of API I use, to shitpost over the next few days till I delete my account, then hey, that’s even more bad management. I’ll have the collection letter framed.
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idk, but somehow I did
As it should be, all the subreddits that was part of this protest should have done that and not given the end date
Yeah, I honestly don’t understand why they bothered going dark in the first place just to reopen after a few days. That’s what it turns a protest into a minor inconvenience
Honestly I feel that the android community here on lemmy is more active than the r/android subreddit before the lockdown
way more active and less random spam imo, seems more interesting than actual r/android lol
I’m perfectly fine with less total content if it actually stays on-topic.
What do you mean? You’re telling me you don’t want to watch reviews for the weekly Oppo/Honor/Xiaomi/Nubia phones with identical specs?
It’s like old school r/android.
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I think thats overly harsh, they do a little apart from ruining things. But mostly they ruin things, no doubt.
Welcome! :)
r/apple is not which I find very disappointing
Seems on brand of them
Typical average consumer does not care as long as they get to keep using the product. That’s likely the majority of Apple users, it’ll take a replacement (like this one) getting popular enough for them to notice and try it, otherwise on Reddit they’ll stay till death.
With apple aficionados, it would also take costing a lot of money to make them interested.
Nah, just a different colored bubble for their messages.
Wasn’t their decision based on being forcibly removed as mods if they didn’t reopen? I thought it was a “this is best for the community” type thing.
I expected r/apple to go on an indefinite blackout.
A logic move, power users after all
Admins are going to be taking them over soon. I got the threatening modmail on all my subs, even the really tiny under 1000 ones
I mean, they can threaten thousands of subs that they’re gonna take over… But with what manpower
Sadly most mods seem to give in the moment their existences as mods are endangered.
The fear of losing what little authority they have is a great motivator.
R/apple should have changed the rules to talk only about a specific fruit.
r/Apple, of all people, shouldn’t have anything to say about overcharging for services lol.
Ability to pay bills are at stake so it’s understandable.
They’re afraid if they lose their volunteer moderator status, they’ll have to start spending more time with their families.
Meanwhile… At r/selfhosted…
I’m interested in doing this but I don’t want to have a computer/server running in the background 24/7. I’d do it if I could use like, an old cellphone though lol
You could use android phones and apps, but I would also recommend checking out raspberri pi’s. They are essentially tiny computers at about the same scale as a phone. Low power usage, quiet, and you can do quite a lot with them!
If you do deploy a Pi tho, for the love of God PLEASE don’t use an SD card. Even the cheapest SSD is faster and way more reliable.
There’s a Discord active and I believe at least 1 Lemmy community so at least there’s external options
My main point was that if there’s one subreddit that should of migrated fully to lemmy… it would be them. Practice what you preach. Granted they are probably one of the larger communities here on lemmy.
The selfhosted community here is constantly recommended to me because it has so many users.
wish they would put a link to one of the Lemmy Android communities, otherwise people will eventually go back whenever Reddit forces them back open
otherwise people will eventually go back whenever Reddit forces them back open
I got denied by beehaw for not giving enough info. What I can say is that it isn’t effective for gaining new users.
Why even bother with beehaw? Just join any instance that federates with them.
