Screw community names, I want instance agnostic URLs for posts and comments.

Right now lemmy.ml/comment/123456 and lemmy.ml/comment/123456 are two different comments, and there is no simple way to find one comment on another instance (so you can interact with it from your logged in account). What we should have is lemmy.ml/comment/123456@lemmy.world to point to a comment made on another instance, then you can just change the instance name after the @ to find the comment (or post) on any other instance.

Go one further, edit and delete all your posts.

Usually tickling his feet makes him release.

I think the real reason the discussions on reddit have been in decline is because

• reddit promotes controversy and ragebait, as this has been proven to “increase user engagement”.
• more recently reddit has been wielding the ban hammer hard and perma banning people over things they would previously let slide.

Maybe, however there’s every chance he could be out before then. At which point the golden parachute will activate. Meanwhile, reddit will throw all the shade on him yet change nothing in the course of action.

However he very well could maintain shares in the company after leaving, which of course means he would benefit from the IPO.

I don’t think Occam’s razor would reach that conclusion when you look at all the different services that are in decline. There’s no one person tying them all together. At least, no one that is publicly known.

Peter Thiel comes close for Twitter - he financed Trump, along with a few sinister businesses, and he tried (and failed) to make a Twitter competitor. Thus it makes sense that he’d tap in his old business partner Elon Musk to remove Twitter from the equation (make no mistake, Twitter isn’t dying because of Musk’s mismanagement, it’s dying because of a leveraged buyout saddling it with $13bn of debt). However that doesn’t really cover any other service, such as reddit, Discord, or whatever else.

Regardless, we, the people, are being dispersed and our ability to organise suppressed.

Honestly I kind of wonder if this is all some kind of coordinated power grab to crack down on public spaces in the build up to 2024 elections.

Even as a visibility vote it’s somewhat flawed. If you downvote everything that’s wrong, then many people will miss out on corrections to commonly held misconceptions.

Power Delete Suite doesn’t get everything. PDS goes through your New, Hot, Top & Controversial posts and deletes those - however your reddit profile doesn’t display every comment there.

For example, I had many comments that were older than 3 months and <50 karma that were still left unchanged after running PDS to completion several times. In particular, replies I’d made to my top comments were still there, while the top comment itself had been deleted. I also had a couple comments in the gilded tab that it had missed.

The only way to get everything is to do a GDPR request to get all the comments with links in a CSV file. Apparently shreddit can take this to clear the comments, however the PDS dev shits on shreddit for requiring you to input your username and password. I haven’t yet tried this, but I’m not aware of any other service that uses the GDPR CSV files.

PowerDeleteSuite doesn’t get everything, though. PDS goes through your New, Hot, Top & Controversial comments as displayed on your profile. However, your profile doesn’t display everything - many comments are too old or middling to low karma and don’t show up, so running PDS won’t get these.

The only way to get these comments is to do a GDPR request for everything on your account. This will give you a CSV file with links to each comment. Then, you need to feed this into software that does it for you. Apparently shreddit can take these files, however I’ve not tried it yet and the PDS developer shits on shreddit because it requires you to provide your login details.

Shhhh don’t tell them that!!

Comm for short.

I want reddit to die. It had its day, and what we have now is a poor reflection on what it was and what it’s supposed to be. Change is a good thing, it leads to improvement and making things better.

The sad thing is they are personally affected, they’re just too damn ignorant to know. Even worse, they cling to their ignorance, which is frankly the worst sin a human being can commit.

Ah nice, didn’t realise there was a UK feddit. Should have tried!

Proof.

The thing is with all your connections being remote you’ll never see any edits.

Edit: here’s proof.

Let Lemmy grow. Growth and low effort pun threads is not what killed reddit. Corporate interference and shit stirring controversy spewing algorithms in the name of “user engagement” is what drove reddit down the drain.

Eyup duck.

u/spez is Steve Huffman (if you even genuinely believe he’s been running the account these days).

The u/spez account will likely die along with his position. Meanwhile, Steve Huffman will get a golden parachute and laugh all the way to the bank.

Do not forget his name is Steve Huffman. Also, do not forget that he used to be a mod of r/jailbait and is almost certainly a paedophile.