Comment on ‘Front page of the internet’: how social media’s biggest user protest rocked Reddit

Marleyinoc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Adanisi@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yeah, I browse Reddit sometimes. I come across the mass-edited comments very often.

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• Mango@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’d heard that Reddit was going around u deleting stuff.

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  • Veraxus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think that conspiracy grew out of bugs in the mass-deletion tools. I found and reported a few on my way out. I wound up rewriting big chunks of an FOSS tool because Reddit was quietly throttling delete calls to the API. The requests would return 200 codes, but the payloads themselves would include ambiguous “error” text about the throttling behavior.

    Once I got the scripts running it took nearly a week for the scripts to fully delete and replace all my content.

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  • misophist@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Do you have evidence or just conspiracy theory gossip?

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    • JargonWagon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Here are some comments about this occurring: programming.dev/comment/6051878

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      • misophist@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yeah, I don’t see anything there about reddit undeleting their deleted posts/comments. Many of us burned our profiles to the ground when we left, but I hadn’t heard of them reverting our edits. I would expect that news to blow up as much as the last time Spez did something like that (may the gods erase his soul and the people forget his name).

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