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Props to the mods over there!

Not gonna link the names, but for real, these guys belong in some kind of hall of fame. Stay strong, fuck /u/spez.

edit for future people: It looks like the android subreddit made a whole server! It can be found here: https://lemdro.id/

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[–] designated_fridge@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Makes a lot of sense since it's a sub for power users. The proportion of 3rd party app users is probably among the highest at Reddit

[–] Dark_Blade@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

r/Nintendo is still down too, which means even Mario’s had enough of spez and his bullshit.

[–] Jaluvshuskies@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Fuck yeah. Love hearing more of this news!

[–] geogle@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

And that dude has been talking crap/barrels from Donkey Kong going on 40 years now.

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[–] figaro@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

For the record, I know this because I'm going through my old comments and turning them into ads for lemmy 😅

[–] RomanRoy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Just a heads up

Go to reveddit.com and throw your username in there. Check if your comments aren't being shadow removed.

Not much you could do about it, tho, but I noticed that the comments I edited to make an ad for Lemmy were all removed. They show up for me, but for other users it shows as "removed".

Reveddit lets you know that.

[–] curiosityLynx@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just checked mine. Apparently, some of my edited comments were removed, while others stayed up (with identical content).

Subreddits where my edited comments (in new) were removed unconditionally:

  • /r/linguistics
  • /r/nottheonion
  • /r/memes (only commented in that subreddit for a short time frame, so whatever auto-removal there is might only apply to edits to old comments)
  • /r/eu4 (lots of removals, but 1 edited comment survived, no idea why, it's neither the youngest nor oldest edited comment there)

Partial removal subreddits:

  • /r/facepalm (some edited comments survived, at least one was reversed, didn't notice a pattern, might be based on user reports or depend on which mod sees it)
  • /r/pettyrevenge (edits of comments younger than about a month were removed, edits of older comments survived)

Also, looks like some subreddits that were private when I ran the edit script (like /r/MadeMeSmile) have since gone public, so I'll have to re-run Power Delete Suite.

[–] Maximilious@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Of all places, /r/amiibo removed my edited post because they banned the term kbin.social. That was a jawdrop wtf moment for me lol.

I've had the suspicion about my comments ever since I've posted kbin ads (only twice). Timely comments fitting the thread and zero reactions while the one I replied to gets 1000s of upvotes.

Oh well, it'll be over next week anyway. Prepare for the wave!

[–] tool@r.rosettast0ned.com 1 points 1 year ago

You could just use Unicode lookalike characters instead. Guarantee they aren't scanning for that:

lеmmу

That doesn't actually say "lemmy." They're Unicode lookalike characters, not ASCII. CTRL+F for the word lemmy, that instance above won't show up.

[–] Pechente@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I hope you're not doing this manually. Power Delete Suite can also do edits.

[–] figaro@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

👀

I'll check that out lol

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[–] AnonymousLlama@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Doing a great service for the people. Reddit doesn't deserve to keep content from people given how poorly they've treated the community as a whole

[–] OtakuAltair@vlemmy.net 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Agreed. I'll use powerdeletesuite to edit all my posts/comments to this when Sync for Lemmy's out in a few weeks:

Reddit has killed off third party apps and most bots along with their moderation tools, functionality, and accessibility features that allowed people with blindness and other disabilities to take part in discussions on the platform. All so they could show more ads in their non-functional app.

Consider moving to Lemmy/kbin, two better and compatible alternatives to reddit (picture explains why) that many subs and users have moved to: sub.rehab

Reddit Sync's dev has turned the app into Sync for Lemmy (Android) instead, and Memmy for Lemmy (iOS) is heavily inspired by Apollo.

You only need one account on any Lemmy or kbin server/instance to access everything; doesn't matter which because they're all connected. Lemmy.world, Lemm.ee, vlemmy.net, kbin.social, fedia.io are all great for example.

[–] champion@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Honestly I feel that the android community here on lemmy is more active than the r/android subreddit before the lockdown

[–] Devgard@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

way more active and less random spam imo, seems more interesting than actual r/android lol

[–] RoboRay@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I'm perfectly fine with less total content if it actually stays on-topic.

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[–] LilBagOfBunnies@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's so nice to see some subreddit sticking to their guns and ideals and push through until real change happens! r/Nintendo is still down too, which was a nice surprise when I was looking around to see the state of my subs on Reddit.

[–] pory@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh wow, /r/nintendo stayed down through a Nintendo Direct that announced a new Mario game? That's a lot more chutzpah than I'd expect from a subreddit focused on a game console.

[–] curiosityLynx@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

That's indeed impressive.

[–] NightOwl@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

Damn that's amazing. Lot of the subs I expected would be locked down like /r/pcgaming, /r/pcmasterrace, and /r/buildapc are the ones who ended up not caring despite thinking it'd align with the values of openness when it comes to hardware and software. I suppose it isn't a surprise given that they were probably the ones buying scalper prices for GPUs and then scalper prices from nvidia themselves. Even /r/patientgamers who are supposed to be patient... were not patient enough to rush to go back to normal like they were snatching up preorders.

But, it's /r/Nintendo that ended up stepping up to the plate. Respect.

[–] baatliwala@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

One of the mods of /r/Android here (/u/cooldude5500), tbh I've barely used reddit after the spezification. 'tis a nice change...

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[–] Nano@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

As it should be, all the subreddits that was part of this protest should have done that and not given the end date

[–] zeppo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

huh? what is a reddit? who is a "Spez"?

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[–] Gangreless@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Admins are going to be taking them over soon. I got the threatening modmail on all my subs, even the really tiny under 1000 ones

[–] yokonzo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean, they can threaten thousands of subs that they're gonna take over... But with what manpower

[–] MoonshineBrew@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sadly most mods seem to give in the moment their existences as mods are endangered.

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[–] gccalvin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Meanwhile.. At r/selfhosted...

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[–] Fer24@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

A logic move, power users after all

[–] AnonymousLlama@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Still super shitty that sync for reddit is vanishing soon. While it's great that apparently it's getting re-leveraged as a fediverse reader, still amazed at how poorly this API transition happened because Spez wants to be a knob

[–] zorrothefox2001@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (7 children)

In case you're stuck on Reddit, the Revanced Team decompiled the APK and made a version of Sync that lets you use your own API key. I'm not sure how well that will work, but I'm definitely going to try it out after The Final Day

[–] AnonymousLlama@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Aw yus, that's exactly what I wanted to hear. When I heard that they didn't want to change the app to allow you to use your own API key I was scratching my head wondering why, I could exist under that daily API rate.

I might give it a go

[–] baswag@lemmy.baswag.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I may be wrong but in one of the threads it was said that App Developers allowing users to use their own API Key was also against the agreement

[–] TurnItOff_OnAgain@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, but it's not the developer doing it, it's a 3rd party who took apart the app and let YOU modify it.

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[–] doctorcherry@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

r/apple is not which I find very disappointing

[–] Poe@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Seems on brand of them

[–] realbaconator@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Typical average consumer does not care as long as they get to keep using the product. That's likely the majority of Apple users, it'll take a replacement (like this one) getting popular enough for them to notice and try it, otherwise on Reddit they'll stay till death.

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[–] Sterben@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hell yeah! :) I just edited all my comments in:

[This comment has been deleted in response to the new Reddit API Policy in 2023]

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[–] isdfoa@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Love to see it! nd great to see the growing android community here as well. Is this community created by the same mod team?

[–] cashews_win@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] soupspoon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

It's set to restricted, so you can see posts but not make new ones

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