Steve Huffman, the CEO of Reddit, has decided to just keep on talking. After his disastrous AMA helped inspire more subreddits to join a 48 hour blackout, and his dismissal of the protesting subred…
  • 1993_toyota_camry@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    2 years ago

    They’ll probably just use it anyway, unfortunately.

    Now that we’ve given them the data, there’s not much we can do.

    • laird_dave@feddit.deEnglish
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      2 years ago

      If you’re in the EU have a look at Art 15&17 GDPR. I’m so gonna have fun with them…

      • 1993_toyota_camry@beehaw.orgEnglish
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        2 years ago

        It’s going to be interesting seeing how they cope with the flood of GDPR requests, especially when there’s a 30-day time limit.

    • knotthatone@lemmy.oneEnglish
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      2 years ago

      I tried nuking mine and they restored everything. At least I have the power not to give them anything more.

      • deephurting@beehaw.orgEnglish
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        2 years ago

        I keep running Power Delete Suite and the comments keep getting restored. Pretty shifty of them.

        • Sparking@lemm.eeEnglish
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          2 years ago

          Is shreddit working to do a mass edit? That is what I am thinking of doing.

          Maybe try to replace everything with various lengths of ipsum dolor to try to fool whatever detection reddit is using. Over a period of a few days too.

          • deephurting@beehaw.orgEnglish
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            2 years ago

            I’m really not sure which approach is best. kbin has a whole reddit migration community, you might find some answers there. I’ve only used PDS and I think you can leave parting words with it, too.