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Questions about community ownership, moderation, and succession in c/AskKbin@kbin.social
[–] abff08f4813c@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If a Kbin member requests deletion of their personal account and they happen to be a community owner, would ownership of that community default to the moderator with the next-longest tenure? That's how it worked at the bad place, is it the same way here?

Not sure, but account deletion is a manual process here. I suspect what actually happens is that the magazine is tranferred to the default owner / first admin account. On kbin.social that would be ernest.

See for example https://kbin.social/m/trans - a sub with few threads. I think the original owner successfully requested account deletion which is why that sub is owned by ernest now.

See also https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/258090/How-does-Delete-Account-work-currently

How long does account deletion normally take after the deletion is requested?

Not sure of the historical average time. It's a manual process though so it will take some time for the admins to get to it.

Also, do the posts get nuked along with the account, or do they remain on Kbin?

I saw an example of this some months ago. It seems like the posts do get nuked, though with recent updates I'm not 100% certain that this is still the case. Again see /m/trans - most likely it was one of those subs where most of the threads were started by the owner posting, so when the owner's account was deleted, so to did those threads and posts.

Actually it's worse than this - as the entire thread is gone, including other commenters' replies.

Can we prevent cars from sending data to servers if we remove their antennae? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
[–] abff08f4813c@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Hopefully they just haven’t thought about that yet

Any sci-fi with aliens where humans are not the less advanced race? in c/sciencefiction@lemmy.world
[–] abff08f4813c@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

David Weber’s Honorverse and Mother of Demons by Eric Flint both come to mind. There is also the Little Fuzzy series by H. Beam Piper.

Edit: Also, The Legacy of Heorot by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle.

Honorable mention also to Dragons Egg by Robert L. Forward (humans start out more advanced in the beginning but get surpassed) and the Uplift Storm trilogy omnibus (or books 4-6) from David Brin (humans aren’t the most advanced in the entire universe but are in the planet that the stories take place on).

How do you mod in Kbin? in c/RedditMigration@kbin.social
[–] abff08f4813c@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

@TheArstaInventor

Should be available for all moderators, owners should atleast have an optional option to enable that.

Seems like a feature request for codeberg, I suppose.

And what happened to the requesting subs function? When is that coming out?

I thought this would have been covered by an existing feature request but I can't find it on codeberg.

What's really odd is that I am sub'd to this magazine but I didn't see this post until I searched for @TheArstaInventor (for an unrelated thing). Getting worried that this magazine is effectively unmoderated, but would be happy to see someone like @TheArstaInventor get added as a third mod here.

This magazine is filling up with spam pretty quick so it is kind of urgent.

@OvergrownSkeleton @ernest

Jan. 6 Rally Organizer Created Her Own Mugshot Because She Felt Left Out in c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
Dethroning lemmy.ml, lemm.ee rises as the second most active instance in c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
[–] abff08f4813c@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Pretty impressive! Wonder where kbin instances fit in those stats.

Donald Trump mugshot released after former US president surrenders at Fulton jail over election charges – live in c/news@lemmy.world
[–] abff08f4813c@kbin.social 30 points 2 years ago

Here’s the formal charging document: https://d3i6fh83elv35t.cloudfront.net/static/2023/08/CRIMINAL-INDICTMENT-Trump-Fulton-County-GA.pdf

It spells out the accused violations that are before a court of law to rule on.

higher wages for the servers... by the customers. Fnbs in c/mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
[–] abff08f4813c@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

I think the service charge bit, that is widespread as an alternative to tipping in Europe, makes a lot of sense in general.

Key word in the above sentence is: alternative

Dark City (1998) Director: Alex Proyas in c/cineshots@lemmy.world
[–] abff08f4813c@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I loved this movie

Maybe it's fine to leave some people behind... in c/RedditMigration@kbin.social
[–] abff08f4813c@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Seconded!

Though perhaps the redditor should have mentioned kbin instead of lemmy - that would have totally worked.

just making sure they can't recreate my deleted posts and comments even in a disassociated state after they delete my account. in c/RedditMigration@kbin.social
[–] abff08f4813c@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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.

Damn, the ads… in c/RedditMigration@kbin.social
[–] abff08f4813c@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago

Pro-tip: go to old dot reddit dot com from a desktop/laptop and unsub from there.

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Shorts not allowed as part of the school uniform? No problem! (kbin.social)
 

Not my own story, but my original retelling of a public one.

Back in the summer of 2017, Devon (in the UK) was suffering from a heat wave. The boys suffered the unbearable heat in trousers. Girls were luckier - skirts were part of the school uniform.

One boy, Ryan, asked his teacher for an exception due to the heat, but was told that all clothes worn must be a part of the approved school uniform, without exception. Another boy who asked was given a sarcastic reply: "Well, you can wear a skirt if you like."

Cue malicious compliance.

The next day, Ryan came to school in his uniform. Every item he wore was on the approved list - including his official school skirt.

Pretty soon, nearly all the lads were wearing skirts.

A few days later, after the worst of the heat wave was over, the headteacher announced that shorts would be allowed as part of the official school uniform starting the next school year.

TL;DR: School won't allow boys to wear shorts in extreme summer heat because it's not on the approved uniform list but sarcastically points out that they can wear skirts. Boys wear said skirts. School gives in and adds shorts to the list.

Original articles:

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/jun/22/teenage-boys-wear-skirts-to-school-protest-no-shorts-uniform-policy

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/jun/23/exeter-schools-uniform-resolve-melts-after-boys-skirt-protest

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Reddit’s only free iOS app icons are ugly now (www.theverge.com)
 

The best icons are behind a Reddit Premium paywall.

To add insult to injury.

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Rip Teddit (kbin.social)
 

Today I just noticed, after trying to convert a reddit link (from this sub!), that teddit is no longer working.

We all knew this was coming. Even so...

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Ordinary redditors are feeling the pain as well. (teddit.adminforge.de)
 

The protests worked, and so did moving/editing/deleting our old content. As one person complains,

I'm not here for Reddit, but for the aggregation of niche communities. I follow a lot of obscure manga that have relatively small followings and recently I got into an IT job which opened a lot of technological exploration for me. The worst part about this change isn't even that we are losing 3rd party apps, but that only members of the communities I frequent are the ones who care enough to protest. Can't tell you how many times now I've looked something up on Reddit and find an answer to the issue I have, only to realize that the community is closed or the post is deleted in protest. Now we are stuck in this limbo where protests seem to have lost their steam, niche communities are being overthrown and killed because of that greedy little pigboy. Seriously, fuck spez.

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Reddit plagued with 1-star App Store reviews over API debacle as users search for 0-star button (9to5mac.com)
 

This is a great idea. Let's get as many one-star reviews up there as we can!

How low can you go-oo-oo-oo

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API Madness (timemachiner.substack.com)
 

Reddit's downfall is, shocker, Greed and Stupidity

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As Reddit protests turn to porn-bombing, advertisers face increasing brand safety concerns (www.thedrum.com)
 

Protests on the social platform have entered a new phase, with users shirking the platform’s NSFW content rules en masse. The development has some media buyers on high alert, experts say.

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Reddit protest plunges user engagement, site activity and ad portal visits (techcrunch.com)
 

Reddit protest by its community moderators has impacted user engagements, traffic and visits to its ad portal since its beginning on June 12.

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POLL: Should we sticky some PSA? We need to warn folks about reddit's trickery. (kbin.social)
 

Should we sticky some articles?

Followup to https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/84223/How-to-get-the-word-out-on-how-to-delete

Today I saw a handful of posts from folks who were trying to delete all their content from reddit, including another person who failed and now can't delete their content after their account was deleted.

I am thinking of two options here.

First, as per the title, we can sticky the best articles made in this magazine, so the first thing a new joiner sees is the warning about the 1000 index limit and the second on how to overcome it.

The other way would be to stick an article referring folks to a new magazine. If you look at the first article ever to this magazine from the owner, https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/12303/Welcome-to-RedditMigration , this magazine was meant to cover all things, news as well as technical questions.

However, I fear that the high volume of important news is drowning out the technical aspects. Therefore, it may make sense to copy or link some content into a separate magazine so it is easier to find and to refer to.

Not to split the magazine, more like a BestOfRedditMiggirationTechnicalAnswers if that makes sense.

Thoughts folks? Especially interested in hearing about this idea from the mods @tchambers & @Shortcake

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On The State of /r/PICS: Profanity, Offensive Content, and An Open Letter : r/pics (teddit.adminforge.de)
 

Great work by the mods. They maliciously comply with reddit by posting an open letter reminding subscribers to tag NSFW appropriately on their content and especially point out that if folks forgot to do this then this will force them under reddit's own existing rules to go NSFW.

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On The State of /r/PICS: Profanity, Offensive Content, and An Open Letter : r/pics (teddit.adminforge.de)
 

Keep up the good work r/pics, this last one had me wondering if you were actually r/maliciouscompliance !

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Post ban and deletion weirdness (kbin.social)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by abff08f4813c@kbin.social to c/RedditMigration@kbin.social
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After deleting my account, which was permabanned, on old dot reddit dot com it still shows up with the user suspended message.

On regular reddit dot com on a desktop browser, it instead shows up as blocked. I can continue to view the profile, but then it just says something went wrong and no content shows up. (Because it's not there, it was deleted!)

Great job reddit, you can't even handle deleted accounts properly!

A sort of follow-up to https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/85486/Permaban-roll-call

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