Reddit Migration

The apps have all gone offline, welcome aboard to all the other refugees, fuck /u/spez!

I wrote a short goodbye post on Reddit as we enter the last hours of Apollo. Just wanted to say thanks to everyone for the support over the years, it’s truly been the journey and dream of a lifetime building this app and meeting so many people. 🥰💙 https://reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/14nb5qs/today_is_apollo_for_reddits_last_day_and_i_just/

That's it folks. RIF has stopped working.
Reddit is no longer fun.

It’s one thing to have differing views, but I’ve seen enough attempted reddit migrations to be relieved that the popular communities in the fediverse so far haven’t been about crazy racist stuff or other extreme right bullshit.

I am also glad that I’m getting away from reddit’s general political shitposting, which was more left leaning. You couldn’t have any proper discourse on there, and even I with my generally more left leaning views recognized that.

Things to think about and lessons to learn.

most of the time you'll be talking to a bot there without even realizing. they're gonna feed you products and ads interwoven into conversations, and the AI can be controlled so its output reflects corporate interests. advertisers are gonna be able to buy access and run campaigns. based on their input, the AI can generate thousands of comments and posts, all to support your corporate agenda.

for example you can set it to hate a public figure and force negative commentary into conversations all over the site. you can set it to praise and recommend your latest product. like when a pharma company has a new pill out, they'll be able to target self-help subs and flood them with fake anecdotes and user testimony that the new pill solves all your problems and you should check it out.

the only real humans you'll find there are the shills that run the place, and the poor suckers that fall for the scam.

it's gonna be a shithole.

The next 2 weeks...any predictions/bets on what it will be then?

Narwhal developer believes they can keep the third party iOS Reddit app running with a subscription.

Copy and pasted from Reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/getnarwhal/comments/14kt9wj/narwhal_is_not_going_anywhere_subscriptions_and/?utm_name=ioscss

Hey all, I want to give you an update on what is happening with Narwhal. I've been talking with Reddit a lot about the API changes and what it will mean for Narwhal.

Narwhal is not going anywhere on July 1st. It will continue to operate as it has for many years (except it will not have ads anymore). Over the next few months, I am going to be adding subscriptions into Narwhal 2. The subscriptions will be there to cover the cost of using the Reddit API. I am still figuring out what to do for heavy power users, but there may be a base plan which includes X number of API requests/month and you can top up your balance with another purchase. The subscription will likely be in the $4-$7 range to start. It may change based on total usage of the app (either up or down) to cover the costs of using the reddit API.

Yes, this means Narwhal 2 is finally going to see the light of day. Is it perfect? No. Is it as finished as I wanted it to be before I released it? No. But it makes the most sense to put subscriptions in Narwhal 2 instead of the current app.

TLDR; Narwhal is not going anywhere on July 1st. Subscriptions will be coming over the next few months.

Ask me anything in the comments and I'll do my best to answer! Also, let me know if this is something that you actually want me to do. Are you willing to subscribe to continue using Narwhal?

Thank you everyone!

I have been trying to avoid Reddit. However, I still often end up being forced to click on a link to a post while searching for something specific. It is a hassle to manually change the link to libreddit or teddit everytime.

For my own purposes, I wrote a userscript to redirect any Reddit link automatically to Libreddit. Since, I thought I should post it here since someone could find it useful, and many of you prefer using Teddit, I also made a Teddit version. You should install only one.

Reddit to Libreddit: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/469587-reddit-to-libreddit-redirect
Reddit to Teddit: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/469588-reddit-to-teddit-redirect

You will need a userscript manager addon like Violentmonkey installed in your browser to make use of these scripts.

Disclaimer: These are my first ever userscripts.

We reach a new low every day...

I see a lot of comments from bootlickers on how the protests are dumb and stupid and dont work and engagement metrics are still holding but the quality of posts and comments has noticeably depreciated imo. So much so that whenever I visit the site Im actually shocked at how bad it is.

This video shows that Reddit refused to delete all comments and posts of its users when they close their account via a CCPA / GDPR request.

This is absolutely insane, and shows that companies OWN you.

This article is an x-post from m/quickstart

Quick note before starting: although this article is far from comprehensive, I wanted to get something done in time for the next wave of reddit migrants when the third party apps close down.

What you see below was written in anticipation for the same set of questions from new users being asked again and again.

If you want me to add anything in, or make any corrections, comment here and I will do my best to make amendments before I repost it on 1st July. Thanks!

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All screenshots were taken using the kbin Web version on chrome for android, unless otherwise specified.

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How to use this guide

This article is a work in progress, but what I am hoping to achieve is an easy to follow, quick to consume guide that presents you with the knowledge you need in a somewhat logical order.

To that end, I have divided it up into sections, or 'tiers'. The idea being that once you are confident at one tier, you can move up to the next. So let's start with...

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1. Lurker Tier

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Intro to subscriptions and magazines (kbin communities)

• How to subscribe to a magazine
• How to search for a magazine using keywords
• How to find a Fediverse/kbin substitute for a subreddit
• How to see a list of all the magazines you are subscribed to
• How to only view content from magazines you are subscribed to
• How to block a magazine or user
• How to block an entire domain (i.e. all communities it hosts)

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Other basic navigation

• How to get back to the kbin homepage
• How to get back to the magazine frontpage from a thread or post
• How to view a magazine's microblog
• How to view replies to your comment (chrome for android)
• How to send a direct message (DM) / private message (PM)

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Voting and boosting content

• What happens when you upvote something?
• What happens when you boost something?
  Warning: your votes and boosts are publicly visible to anyone who visits your profile.

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Optional quality of life settings

• How to get notified when someone replies to your thread or comment
• How to enable infinite scroll
• How to show or hide NSFW 18+ adult content
• How to enable or disable federation
• How to view comment lines showing parent/child/root relationships
• How to view full size images on a magazine homepage without going into the threads

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Exploring the Fediverse

• Should you create accounts on other Fediverse sites?
• How to get a more diverse mixture of threads on the kbin front page
• How to view the front page of a different instance
• How to add a community from the Fediverse if it does not appear when you search for it in kbin

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Useful information

• Known issues to be aware of
• How does the Fediverse relate to software like kbin, lemmy and Mastodon, and what are some examples of instances of these different types of software?
• An app for iOS and Android is under development

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2. Contributor Tier

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Basic terminology

Don't worry if all these terms don't click with you right away. You might even be able to disregard a few of them. Either way, you can always come back and refer to this later.

• A 'magazine' is a kbin community

• Magazines contain 'threads' and a 'microblog'

• The terms thread and microblog can cause some confusion, so we'll clear that up soon. But first...

• A thread is a discussion based on either an 'article' (i.e. text post), a link, a photo, or a video (although video is not yet supported)
  How to create an article

• A 'comment' is a response to a thread

• A 'microblog' is a collection of 'posts' that are based on the magazine itself as opposed to a single article, link, photo, or video

• Confusingly, a post can still contain things like images, it's just that its replies will appear alongside all the other microblog posts
  How to upload an image to display on a post

• Responses to microblog posts are called 'replies'

• The distinction between comments and replies is significant because they are split by type in your user profile by those names.

• A 'favourite' is a thread you have upvoted using the arrow button
  How to view your favourites

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Threads vs microblog posts

	Thread	Post
Shown on front page	✅️YES	❌️NO
Added to favourites	✅️YES	❌️NO
Can be downvoted	✅️YES	❌️NO
Has a title	✅️YES	❌️NO
Can be pinned to top	✅️YES	❌️NO
Can be boosted	✅️YES	✅️YES
Shown on microblog	❌️NO	✅️YES
Can comment	✅️YES	❌️NO
Can reply	❌️NO	✅️YES

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Staying engaged

• How to view a list of your threads, comments, posts, and replies

• How to view which users have been interacting with your content

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3. Addict Tier

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To make good use of the tips in this tier you must have the prerequisite knowledge from tiers 1 and 2.

Tips in this tier may also be quite quirky (e.g. only works on desktop) or require detailed explanations. Or they might be advanced niche tips for users looking to get the absolute most out of kbin.

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• DESKTOP ONLY: Configuring kbin homepage to show only threads from your Subscriptions, Favourites, or Moderated magazines

• List of formatting markdown with examples

• How to customise the look and UI functionality of kbin using scripts and stylesheets

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Although you've reached the end, this article is still a work in progress. If you've any corrections, or feel something is missing, you can reach out to @Friend or post to m/quickstart. Thanks for reading!

A comprehensive mapping of old subreddits to new communities.

😂 amazing act of malicious compliance! fuck spez

Looking to see if I am welcom on kbin to express the viewpoint that it is not possible to be "trans."

I assert that it is not possible to transition and that gender is the same as sex.

Is this an acceptable viewpoint on kbin, or will I be banned for expressing this?

Not looking to start a fight, just want to know if such speech is tolerated here.

Just noticed that Urban Dictionary now has 17 definitions for spez.

In case you're feeling literary today, you can submit user generated definitions by pressing the + button on the top right of the site. Here's a direct link to the submission form.

Like many other subreddits, r/Finland is allowing its users to vote for whether or not they should a) reopen as normal, b) remain closed, or c) remain in protest mode.

However, the admins just sent them a nastygram essentially saying that's not allowed:

Your community sees well over 2 million unique visitors each month. Allowing a small segment of those users to make a decision for a community forever does not make sense. There are a huge number of people that use this space now and who will in the future

Polling to close is not a viable option that will return a result that resolves this situation

However, mods can also see traffic stats, which show them as closer to 20k uniques per month. My guess is that this is a copy/pasted message and a whole bunch of subreddits are getting this notice.

I thought this was a particularly nasty new development, since up until now the excuse has been that we can't let these Landed Gentry dictate the state of our subreddits, but now they're explicitly saying that they also don't care about how the users of a subreddit vote either.

r/ModCoord: The admins in charge of demodded subreddits are mass-removing images of Huffman previously shared on them

the OP asked how are they gonna remove them all, so I replied they'll run a query for terms like "fuck spez". only to find my comment invisible, because they're already blocking it. spez protective word filter, it's active right now.

I checked the /r/blind sub and they have started their own Lemmy instance. Edited so Blind users can read it.

Announcement!!Open Alpha!! RBlind - A community on Lemmy, brought to you by the moderators of the /r/blind subreddit.

Since the news broke regarding the forthcoming changes to reddit’s API and the impact that will have on the third party apps and tools many of us rely upon the mods here at r/blind have been working on an accessible option for those who either cannot or will not be staying on reddit. As talk of alternatives like mastodon, lemmy, and the like have increased we decided that it would be best to reveal what we have been working on, hence this post. Several days ago we shared this with those of you on our Discord server and have been asking for feedback.

This project is by no means finished or polished, and is currently operating on development backend code and a beta UI to allow for access to still unreleased features that our community needs such as up/down votes displaying state changes, and nested comments, read this as there are and will be bugs and outstanding accestsibility problems. However, the advantage of this platform is we control the servers, the UI, and can fix accessibility concerns ourselves instead of relying on a for profit company or the generosity of app developers to do it for us, not that the latter is unappreciated.

So please be understanding of the above and we hope those of you who decide to join and see what we have done so far for all of us, and please report problems as you find them.

https://rblind.com/