silicon_reverie

Make sure to check back after a few days to see if Reddit illegally restores your posts, and file a formal deletion request in writing with support if they do so you can forward their non-compliance to the California AG per the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) which they are required to follow by being headquartered in Silicon Valley. They’ve been restoring posts left and right already, falsely thinking they “own” us, that we won’t notice they’re breaking the law, and that we won’t hold them accountable in large enough numbers to matter.

I do too, but this thread is about ways to filter or block content so I’m not really sure what that has to do with it?

I’d love a way to filter by keyword, which the Reddit Enhancement Suite and some of the 3rd party apps allowed. Maybe the upcoming Sync for Lemmy will port over its filters by domain, user, subreddit, flair, and keyword.

As for Reddit posts invading Lemmy, it seems like most of them are contained to c/reddit and c/RedditMigration, so blocking those two should fix most of OP’s issue and that’s easy enough to do without any extra tools.

Not really sure what you’re talking about here. r/worldnews, r/news, r/UkraineWarVideoReport, r/CombatFootage, r/inthenews, r/RussiaUkraineWar2022, r/Ukraine, r/CrazyFuckingVideos, r/UkrainianConflict, and even r/Damthatsinteresting have posted about it today with thousands of upvotes each.

r/WorldNews even has a stickied megathread about today’s news, and sorting by “Hot” on their sub only has a handful of posts not talking about the Wagner Group.

I take no pleasure in inflicting this upon the world. Just remember, you asked. Behold: the balding man.

To be fair, much of the modern news cycle comes from Reddit. When I worked as a tech journalist years ago, we had half a dozen bots watching relevant subs and alerting us to breaking news. We’d clean it up, fact-check, call sources for comment, and do all the “journalistic” stuff you’d expect, just like with any other story, but Reddit was absolutely part of our workflow. You’ve got to look for news wherever the news is happening, be that a press release, a leak on twitter, or a convo on Reddit, and frequently it happened to be Reddit.

These days you even have tictokers cutting out the middleman and straight-up reading r/AmITheAsshole posts over Minecraft footage for views. Is it any surprise that news sites are commenting on their content firehose being turned off?

I opened this thread because I had the exact same thought, except my brain went to “dove (facing left) with a toupee” instead of “balding man”.

Because you’re literally browsing a magazine about that other site?

I agree that this particular mod getting banned isn’t directly related to the migration efforts, but the overarching drama it’s connected to is the main reason people are leaving Reddit for Lemmy. IE: admins becoming hostile towards moderators, developers, and redditors, resulting in an environment that the whole userbase is trying to flee. So even though I don’t care about this “power-tripping asshole mod” (as another Lemming described him), I get how some people here might find the post useful and relevant.

Great news! But how do lemmy.fediverse.observer and fedidb.org separate “bots” from “non-bots”? It feels like “we don’t have any bots” is a pretty laughable thing to say.

Link to the announcement thread on Reddit.

MVP in the next 3-6 weeks, and ljdawson is soliciting feature requests

Thanks for the writeup! Dumb question from a Reddit Refugee incoming:

Q: When subscribing to a Lemmy community (magazine), we paste the !CommunityName@LemmyInstance.url into our Kbin search bar, correct? What would cause a community to not show up? I know that some instances can be defederated (cut off) from others, but don’t think that’s what is happening here. Is there a lag between when a new community is created and when the wider fediverse gets the memo? Eg: !starcitizen@lemmy.ml, which was just created due to the impending Reddit Blackout