cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/tech/t/60668

The battle between Reddit and its CEO continues. With that battle continuing on, ActivityPubs user count continues to soar.

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    1 year ago

    My hope this site gets popular enough to be a flourishing alternative, but not popular enough to bring all the Facebook quality users who are over there licking boots, and upvoting worldstar public freak out rage bait.

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      His point about Reddit being late to the app game is precisely why I deleted all my comments except the one about navigating to Lemmy and deleted my account. I’m not sure if I’d have stuck around over 11 years ago if third parties didn’t make Reddit apps. For me, they made Reddit. And now Reddit wants to force me to use their inferior app by running them out of business? Farewell, and thanks to Sync/Dawson for all the years of service to the community.

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        17 years. SEVENTEEN YEARS I spent on Reddit, through thick and thin. Gamergate, Ellen Pao, AMA collapse, the whole shebang. I never would have gotten through it if it weren’t for Alien Blue and Apollo. But this shit? here? and now they’re just nuking entire mod teams en masse? I left 19 days ago, and you know what I did? I joined a team developing an iOS app for Lemmy.

        Nero can strum his lute and watch as Rome burns. I don’t care, for I have better things to do and better places to be. I have found my new home.

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          Another long-timer. Would add to your list of apps that made it all tolerable BaconIt (Windows Phone, went through a phase). 3rd party apps ARE (sorry, WERE) the Reddit experience for millions of users. Huffman’s declarations are hubris. He may own the 2-monitor setups, cubicles, payroll and have keys to the building, but he is not the owner of the thoughts, feelings and ideas users forged into the site’s lifeblood. It’s not his to monetize.

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          I have also been there 17 years and deleted my account and all my content (as far as the blackout allowed at least). This is on a whole other level than any reddit scandals I have seen before, especially in terms of doubling, triping, quadrupling,… down on it every time.

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          I dunno, I quite like watching Rome burn. I’ve been away from Reddit for awhile, real life is far more entertaining and rewarding. I didn’t think it would end with such a bang.

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      1 year ago

      I have TechDirt in my RSS reader and whenever a Mike Masnick byline turns up, you know it’s going to be a doozy.

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    The only times I have visited Reddit since all this drama started has been to delete/edit my comments then re-delete/edit as they are “mysteriously” restored 🙄. It was an adjustment at first but now I don’t even have the desire to return to that shit site. Let it burn 🔥.

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      Wait - I just checked and ALL of my comments and posts are back! wtf, isn’t this like illegal to restore deleted material? The right to be forgotten?

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        Yeah, it’s been odd which of my comments have been restored. I just make a point a few times a week to check and re-delete any that reappear. It’s shady as fuck but at this point I’m honestly not surprised. I also received a mod message for a small sub I have (about 2500 subscribers) stating that if the sub isn’t removed from private/restricted further actions may be taken. I’m the only admin currently and the sub isn’t terribly active so it makes it all the more hilarious. They really must be getting desperate and worried at this point. I reported the message as harassment and replied 🖕. I also changed the sub to nsfw. Lol likely won’t change anything but it’s provided me with some good chuckles. Lol.

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    1 year ago

    I’m confused by the user count. I follow a mastodon user count bot, and it’s numbers are pretty close to the ActivityPub user bot. Can anyone speak to how these bots work? Can they differentiate between mastodon, kbin, and lemmy?

    • JackFromWisconsin@midwest.socialOP
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      Every website/bot tracks it differently. Some are opt-in only, others may only consider a certain type of software, and for others it’s just plain hard to get an exact count.

    • Glide
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      This sounds like the powers that have been abusing Reddit to spread misinformation also see the writing on the wall.

      If we wanted a shift to these platforms, bots were inevitable. Now we just have to hope they are dealt with correctly.