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That's exactly the same shit Elon/Twitter pulled with links to Mastodon.

I think people may need to wait. Here's what I've read and seen myself so far:

You can only edit/delete so many comments as it seems reddit only indexes the last 1000. After editing/deleting everything you can, you can see you still have unedited/undeleted comments by searching your username like: site:reddit.com "usernameHere". I saw plenty of comments going back years (I have a 14yr old account) that I wasn't able to touch.

The strategy seems to be to be requesting your data from reddit and then use the comment ids contained in that export to target them for edits/deletes via the API, assuming it's still usable for small scripts like the ones we want to use.

We're tracking our requested/received dates in this thread if you're interested in adding yours to the list.

If you’re in the US,

Don’t talk to the police.

https://youtu.be/d-7o9xYp7eE

No, that can't be right.

Huh. TIL 53% want a different set of rules for the rich and powerful.

Full self driving just around the corner.

The ongoing strike, spurred by Huffman’s plan to charge fees to third-party apps that serve up Reddit content, was supposed to last for 48 hours.

Not just charge fees... Exorbitant fees. Outrageous fees.

If Huffman wanted to target these much higher costs to LLMs, they could have instituted an approval process for 3PAs which got charged sane API fees while they charge much more for LLMs. I'm no dev but I think they could tell the difference between the two by just analyzing the API traffic.

But they aren't doing that. Maybe LLMs were the primary target but they sure aren't even trying to keep 3PAs around.

Heat is heat. Why does it matter?

Edit: This guy doesn't seem to mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooNzRrHA9VY

I've been wondering if Reddit has been fucking with stuff just since the API stuff started. This is a data point indicating yes.

Can you expand on how you got blocked? First time I’ve heard of this.

This came to my attention recently via someone I follow on Mastodon. I haven't set time aside yet to set it up and try it out but since I heard about ChatGPT, etc, I thought this would be an excellent use of the tech.

I'm in the process of doing this right now too but I seem to have lost the ability to view comments older than 6 months. Before the API fiasco and the blackouts, I could see all the way back to my first comments/submissions.

Have you noticed that with your account or is it just me?

I think I may be running into the index thing. I can easily find old, unedited comments of mine by using site:reddit.com "username".

My next move is to request my data from reddit which, as I understand it, should contain a list of comments in .json. I then plan on iterating through those and use PRAW to edit all of my comments going back 14yrs. Then I'll delete my account.

I'm using PRAW/python and app credentials I made just for me and PRAW seems to have some good rate limit logic built in.

I also tried Power Delete Suite which seemed to work very quickly and that caused me to worry that I was running afoul of rate limits. My own python script utilizing PRAW works much more slowly but IMO that's a good thing.

I'm hoping that once I have a nice list of comment ids I can hit them all via my script/PRAW, however long it takes.

Submitted: 2023-06-18
Received: 2023-07-07

(I suggest others adding their data use ISO 8601 formatting)

For what it’s worth, I did that with what I determined was important content before I edited all my comments to a canned “I’m moving to a federated solution” message.

Apollo was polished. It can be good and look good at the same time.

Keeping the account around for now for the same reason.

Will that affect even small-time users like us who hardly ever use the API? That would kill things like the conversionbot, remindme, etc too.

Keep this shit up! Blackouts won't mean anything to Huffman if we all come back after 48hrs.

This is the correct answer.

I run several containers that offer up http/s and they obviously can't all use 80/443. Just adjust the left side of that port setting and you're good.

That plus a reverse proxy for offering these services up over the public internet, if you choose to do so, is a killer pair.

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The test will be if they actually lost the users or just lost them for a few days.

I wish it were easy for me. Just in these last few days from typical searches I do online, reddit is at or near the top of the results list with exactly what I'm looking for.

Ah, sort of a "yes, and" attitude. For something so important, I can't blame them. Texts, calls, emails, social, push alerts - do it all.

Of course I can’t speak for him but I think he’d rather Reddit change course.

Before this API fiasco I could see everything with no time limit.

Huh.. I would have thought they'd use the API when available but I honestly know nothing about it. Wouldn't gathering data via API provide more structured data thereby making it easier to feed into their models?

Good point.

I’ve posted this elsewhere but haven’t gotten any responses yet.

I used my own simple python script to edit all my comments but all of a sudden, I can’t view any of my comments older than 6 months. This was never an issue before the API bullshit started. Manually checking what comments are available to me via API shows the same issue.

Either it’s just me or Reddit has enabled some sort of protection against exactly this sort of action.

Keep digging, idiot.

@harmonea I thought I liked Lemmy more at first but over time I think kbin is more stable, in my experience. It's still early and there will be growing pains but I can't wait to see what it becomes.

To be a suitable replacement for Reddit, it's going to have to allow it at some point. Everyone knows the way to find anything now is to add "reddit" to the search term in google now.

I see that issue using old.reddit.com and Apollo.

You may be right. Before this, I had no real reason to check that far back. Those fuckers.

Restic is awesome and has been rock solid for me for a few years now. Good choice.

Meta started blocking news on its Facebook and Instagram platforms for all users in Canada this month in response to a new law requiring internet giants to pay for news articles.

Look, I hate Facebook as much as the next guy but you have to admit, Canada doesn't have much to bitch about. They did this to themselves.

Facebook doesn't want to pay for news articles so they decided not to have news at all. ¯\(ツ)/¯

What was Twitter doing that a service like Pushover couldn't do for them? Same for the city/municipality who stopped sending out their transit updates via Twitter.

Makes no difference to me. Those who believe they have privacy just because Meta and others don't yet have their own instance are mistaken.

Y tho?