RedditMigration

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sanctuary_sanctuary,

I decided to edit all of my comments to say that I left Reddit in protest and provide a link to the Fediverse. If I leave the comments up when I delete my account, can Reddit edit them back to what they originally were? Should I just delete them?

melroy,
@melroy@kbin.melroy.org avatar

@sanctuary_sanctuary Yes.. looking at the past history of Reddit actions. Reddit is constantly restoring threads and comments. Even deleted ones. Which is against various privacy protection acts.

sanctuary_sanctuary,

@Tar_alcaran I did it by hand, but I had deleted my 10 year account a couple months ago for unrelated reasons so I didn't have many comments.

Xepp, (edited )

Trying to migrate to kbin, but have several small questions after using it for some minutes now.
Can anyone please expain how to ask simple questions within this magazine, like:

How can I ask questions here without posting a new link, photo, article or video?

Questions like:

  • How can I add magazines to my favourites?
  • How can I search a specific magazine (like RedditMigration for those quesions I have...)?

Finally:

  • Is there a more extensive user guide than kbin's user guide on Github?

Xepp,

@chris

Thanks! I still see "Add new article" on kbin.social and on fedia.io it is "thread" as you said.

Niello, (edited )

All of the options in + except making a new magazine is creating a thread. The "Add new article" is equal to making a text thread.

You should be able to find some useful guides or info if you click "top" on the homepage, or go to /m/kbinMeta and click top to find some useful guides. Out of those this one should be a pretty helpful start.

https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/11493/A-small-FAQ-to-hopefully-help-new-users-to-kbin

I don't think there is currently a way to favourite magazines but you can subscribe to them by clicking the button on the side bar.

tunetardis,

A better RSS experience

I've been playing around with RSS views of the fediverse hoping to get something comparable to multireddits, but there is a problem.

First of all, it is possible to get reddit feeds on both kbin and lemmy. The URLs look like:

https://KBIN_INSTANCE/rss?magazine=MAGAZINE_NAME
https://LEMMY_INSTANCE/feeds/c/COMMUNITY_NAME?sort=new

Unfortunately, these are problematic when dealing with instances that are not your home instance. Any links to the post page will be absolute remote instance URLs, which means you cannot interact with the post (e.g. leave a comment). The URL really needs to be made relative to your home instance for that to work, but for the life of me, I cannot figure out how to fix that for a specific post. I can only fix the URL to the magazine/community itself and then hope to locate the post within it again.

If there is a way to get home instance-relative RSS feeds, I'm all ears! Failing that, I might work on a scraper that can take URLs of the form:

https://KBIN_INSTANCE/m/MAGAZINE_NAME@REMOTE_INSTANCE
https://LEMMY_INSTANCE/c/COMMUNITY_NAME@REMOTE_INSTANCE

and generate RSS feeds out of them? But I don't want to reinvent the wheel if something like this is already possible?

It might also be useful to someone trying to write an app with a multireddit-type feature? I will definitely release source if I come up with anything.

EDIT: fixed a typo in URLs

BobQuasit,

Infinity going subscription-only!

Infinity Announcement

This morning when I opened Infinity to check Reddit, I saw the announcement above: they're going subscription-only. Ironically enough, I couldn't scroll down to see the rest of the message including prices, if there were any. I also couldn't see if there was a button to close the message or start a paid subscription. I couldn't proceed to Reddit at all. My only option was to close the app completely. So I uninstalled it.

That's it for me using Reddit on mobile! Can't say I'll miss it much. But I added a LOT of content to Reddit that way, so it's their loss. Fuck you, spez!

NekoRogue,
@NekoRogue@beehaw.org avatar

I have auto update turned off for apps, so I didn't get the last update for Infinity and I can still use it to see Reddit, for now. Once it dies I'm out though. I can't imagine they will be able to get enough subscriptions to support the app, so I'm not really sure what the goal is here.

The Infinity listing in the Play store links to this post that has a bit more info (warning: Reddit link) https://www.reddit.com/r/Infinity_For_Reddit/comments/147bhsg/the_future_of_infinity/

Even the people subbed to r/Infinity_For_Reddit are saying they won't buy a subscription. Wouldn't Infinity be racking up a huge bill from Reddit once the API change goes into effect? There's no way subscriptions will cover that so I don't understand why they're doing this.

Lemur,
@Lemur@kbin.social avatar

Reddit removes years of chat and message archives from users' accounts

You might be able to get a copy of older messages from the data retrieval request.

linearchaos,
@linearchaos@lemmy.world avatar

This is probably cost reduction. I know they have a significant amount of redis. That’s all in-memory database storage.

LinkOpensChest_wav,
@LinkOpensChest_wav@beehaw.org avatar

Hello, we are migrating legacy chats to the new platforms and, unfortunately, only data for 2023 is replicated.

So they knew this would happen and still didn’t notify users in advance so they could save their message history?

Sound pretty on-brand for that shitwagon.

merlin,

Just wanted to say that I love how people are using the upvote and downvote feature here as they don't seem to be used as agreement/disagreement but rather valuable or hindering to the conversation.

I really feel like I can express any opinion on here and start controversial discussions as long as I'm not malicious to anyone.
Disagreements are mostly stated in replies which promotes conversation and growth. There is currently no reason to be scared about being wrong.
I hope that this is not just a product of the smaller userbase compared to reddit but rather how upvotes/downvotes/boosts are laid out to the user.

const_void,

Have you ever seen blatant vote manipulation on Reddit?

curt,

The Future of the Threadaverse. Is a Lot More Growth a Good Thing?

I’m a recent refugee from Reddit and a very long time social network user. When the Apollo app announced its demise, I joined kbin.social and beehaw.org and love these new networks. The discussions seems much more reasoned and friendly. I do miss some of the more esoteric groups such as music theory and jazz. I’m sure they’ll be created as the threadiverse (kbin and lemmy) continue to grow. In this case, growth will be good. Is there, however, a point where these new networks get too big?

Imagine 56 million daily users (the current figure for Reddit) using the threadiverse platforms. If they were divided evenly into groups of 10,000, that would be 5,600 instances. Surely, such growth would take years, unless Huffman pulls another catastrophic move such as making you pay to be member and having to view ads as well. Even if he did, I doubt Reddit would completely go away. It would join myspace and AOL in the backwaters of the Internet.

Back to my point. Let’s say there are 20 million daily users. Magazines on kbin and communities on lemmy would have 100’s of thousands or even more that a million subscribers. The subreddit r/worldnews has 32 million subscribers. There could also be 100’s of thousands of magazines/communities. Reddit has 2.8 million subreddits. I know communities are tightly limited on beehaw.org, only being added when there is sufficient interest and support for them. On kbin, it appears any member can create a magazine. I could be wrong. Lemme.ee also allows members to create communities without restriction as far as I can tell.

Assuming there were enough instances to support such a volume of users, would that be a good thing or would discussions turn into flame wars, vitriol, and personal attacks? Even if such things were kept under control would threads become full of pointless or uninformative comments that kept you from reading quality posts. I don’t know one way or the other although I suspect, at some point there would be such a thing as too big. Most likely, it will take years for the threadiverse to grow so there’s plenty of time to plan and implement mechanisms to handle it.

VulcanSphere,
@VulcanSphere@kbin.social avatar

Just uninstalled Relay and from now will rely on libreddit and old.reddit for feeds from the Snoo Platform.

Undisclosed,

I've heard a few people say that they don't use reddit apps anymore and only access reddit via old.reddit. Could someone explain to me how that resolves the "morality issue"? Isn't that still traffic and aren't they still getting money? Is it less money somehow?

BrikoX,
@BrikoX@vlemmy.net avatar

Isn’t that still traffic and aren’t they still getting money?

Yes

Is it less money somehow?

No.

Khan,

Dunno for sure, I feel the same way as you, but I think it’s more about "I refuse to use the app you intended me to be forced to by killing [favorite 3rd party app].

If combined with an adblocker they don’t get your ad revenue but they do still get to add you to the tally of “active users”, so I still feel abandoning ship altogether is best practice.

curt,

Any surge in kbin or lemmy signups?
I'd check myself, but don't know there to look. We might not see much change until Tuesday when the long weekend is over.

LeGaosaure,
@LeGaosaure@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

This is the tracker I know of: FediDB

curt,

So a bit of an uptick. Tuesday might be when it shoots up, assuming it does.

Stopkilling0,
@Stopkilling0@kbin.social avatar

Why does rif still work for me? Anyone know what's going on? I got the 429 this morning but now it's working exactly as before.

luckystarr,

It will probably work until your temporary credentials time out, the old API will be shut off or you try to re-login.

Logging out will shut it off for good. You probably won't be able to log in again then.

tenth,
d3lta19,

Infinity app is still working for me? Is it the same for anyone else? I'm loading by new and I'm still getting new posts.

DillingerEscPlan,
@DillingerEscPlan@lemmy.world avatar

The Dev has posted that Infinity will remain working and free until their paid subscription update is released. How they are achieving this I am unsure. The other reddit client I have installed, Stealth, which I just browse on anonymously, is still working also.

StarLuigi,
@StarLuigi@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

The dev said the app will be free to use until the update is published

I personally have just plugged in my own API key which was much easier than I expected. You can do that here

jkmooney,
@jkmooney@kbin.social avatar

Gotta say, kbin.social is looking more like what I wanted from Reddit in the first place than Reddit does.... I may be dropping that account soon.

kurgal,

Is there a way to upload multiple images on kbin? Similar to how you would do it for Reddit?

UnanimousStargazer,

Keep in mind you are probably using server space by uploading multiple images at once, that others pay for. Is there a reason why you want to upload many images at once?

kurgal,

@UnanimousStargazer I'm just curious. If we're going to migrate over from Reddit, we at least need it to be able to work similarly to Reddit

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