Hey, it's the fediverse! Make your own instance and your own magazines on there, and if there are like-minded folks who appreciate your moderation, your instance will grow. You'd generally not have to depend on the whims of other mods or admins that way, but have nearly full control over your own safe space.

3y ago

I think the best outcome of the ongoing Reddit corporate trashfire would be if each subreddit mod team opened their own Kbin server for supporting and migrating their community, running their way. [#R

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abff08f4813c @kbin.social 3y ago

@ArtBear

This is the way

3y ago

Reddit removes my post about how Reddit doesn't accept my GDPR request

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abff08f4813c @kbin.social 3y ago

they certainly can’t block me from reporting that it isn’t working, for them to accept it.

Is r/help run by admins? I can't remember.

Anyways, while I agree that they can't ignore your request for your data under the GDPR, i don't think there's a law saying that they have to acknowledge their website being broken. Technically it's fine for their system to be broken as long as you're able to submit a GDPR request (even if only by email), unfortunately.

3y ago

Aaron is no longer considered as cofounder by reddit. He fought for free speech. - Lemmy.world

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abff08f4813c @kbin.social 3y ago

Wow, the combined company notabug was already defunct in 2007? I wonder whatever happened to that company once reddit got sold off to Conde Nast

3y ago

Aaron is no longer considered as cofounder by reddit. He fought for free speech. - Lemmy.world

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abff08f4813c @kbin.social 3y ago

Direct kbin.social link: https://kbin.social/m/reddit@lemmy.world/t/270649/Aaron-is-no-longer-considered-as-cofounder-by-reddit-He

3y ago

Reddit calls for “a few new mods” after axing, polarizing some of its best

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abff08f4813c @kbin.social 3y ago

In the 2nd case they'd probably see reddit's true colours and run pretty early on though...

3y ago

just making sure they can't recreate my deleted posts and comments even in a disassociated state after they delete my account.

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abff08f4813c @kbin.social 3y ago

you are right! I only checked on my profile, so can’t be sure. It’s just misleading though if they still keep them.

Yup, that's kind of one of the biggest issues with them actually. It's incredibly misleading!

Anyway, it seems that they have already removed my account or at least removed access to it to me so there is not much to be done now i guess.

Yeah, I've heard this story before. Hopefully PDS got all of yours and hopefully this post will help others as well.

3y ago

just making sure they can't recreate my deleted posts and comments even in a disassociated state after they delete my account.

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abff08f4813c @kbin.social 3y ago

Yeah, the point of the GDPR request - the data retrieval request - is to get a copy of all posts and comments, which can then be feed into a script that does the actual deletion. Note - I'm not saying that reddit should not do the deletion themselves - in fact I feel that they should, seeing how hard they make it to do it ourselves with their stupid limits.

Why do we need to ask reddit for a copy of all our comments to delete them? Because reddit has hidden limits and you can think you've deleted everything, only to realize too late (after you deleted your account) that a bunch of stuff got missed and now can no longer be deleted. See for example https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/46805/Strange-phenomenon-while-deleting-my-comments and https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/172540/How-can-I-automate-the-process-of-deleting-my-remaining and https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/p/425000/If-you-re-nuking-your-old-reddit-content-this-might-be

Worse, all tools like PDS will give a false sense of security here. You'll see from your profile that you have no posts and no comments left, but then you Google your own reddit username and find a bunch of stuff. (It's actually reddit and not the tools like PDS to blame for that false sense of security.)

> > > It seems to have done the job though > >

My question is - how do you know? how did you check?

3y ago

just making sure they can't recreate my deleted posts and comments even in a disassociated state after they delete my account.

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abff08f4813c @kbin.social 3y ago

Be careful here, these tools don't always delete everything, see https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/47320/PSA-If-you-have-more-than-1000-posts-more-than

A better way is to make a GDPR request for your data and then use something like shreddit to delete it. If you can't wait, then you can also try the process described in https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/65260/PSA-Here-s-exactly-what-to-do-if-you-hit-the

> > > I had them confirm that they won’t recreate it when I have deleted it > >

Important to retain this!

> > > They still say that they will retain the IP used for creating the account. Not sure if this is legitimate data redemption after I have asked for my data to be deleted according to GDPR? > >

Only if they can find some other basis to keep it now that you've withdrawn your consent - e.g. some law in an EU member requires them to retain the IP address. Another example - they claim they need it in much the same way that the credit card money needs to know your personal info so they can continue collecting your payments until the debt you own them is paid off.

TBH, I'm hard pressed to understand on what alternative basis they are able to use to retain your IP address. This might be something to refer to your regulator for additional information.