That article is dirt, it makes wild accusations purely based on not understanding how the Irish legislative process works, or more likely assuming it’s readership doesn’t. Its not going to do any good here because it reads like something a nutter would put together when you do have at least the gist of the system.

If you actually want to have an impact share things more in line with the iccl statement and if you’re Irish talk to your local politician, that noyb article doing the rounds will do nobody any favours.

This is the most straightforward

I don’t know what OP used but I used Power Delete Suite

I don’t think they want that, they have a month before they have to come back with something or you can escalate it to a supervising body. Imagine getting taken to court because redditors flooded your GDPR response process

I’m willing to bet that they don’t actually know when a sub went private, just whether or not it currently is. I also would not be surprised if the emails are automated but going out in batches to spread the workload dealing with replies.

That is by far the best mod update and explaination I have read yet.

Poor Inbred!

ActivityPub is the underlying protocol both are built on - it’s what allows posts from lemmy to propagate and be interacted with on kbin and mastodon users comment on both via their existing accounts. Think of it as like email protocol but for social media.

I’m not sure about over there but we can see who’s been downvoting in the Kbin interface - more > activity > reduces

You misunderstand the use of quotations here, they’re air quotes. Reddit has already met with an “expert” - the mods at r/blind would like them to meet with an accredited professional.

I don’t think accessibility is particularly good anywhere, but when software is open source, or failing that APIs free, people take things into their own hands and make it good. I read this in that context, even the fact Reddit would meet with community representatives rather than ask an “expert” is better than a lot of companies, though you would by the outcome if that is genuine or for optics.

The GDPR itself doesn’t use the term organisation, it refers to data controllers and data processors.

A “data controller” refers to a person, company, or other body which decides the purposes and methods of processing personal data.

A “data processor” refers to a person, company, or other body which processes personal data on behalf of a data controller.

As someone from within the EU working in data the fediverse is absolutely not a long way off having to consider this, GDPR impacts even the smallest businesses or voluntary groups - it’s just how we handle data.

To make it easier to grasp GDPR is about your rights over your data, those don’t change depending on who is processing it, nor does the processors obligation, however what would be considered appropriate safeguards would scale with the size and intent of your organisation - it would be silly for my local shop to have a data protection officer.

I suppose the question would become who is the controller, is it the person who provides the software or the person who provides the servers? Typically it’s the servers.

Because Reddit got a reputation for being lenient on people who are toxic. I gave up on general, current affairs or regional subs a long time ago it’s only smaller communities I’m leaving now.

Think of r/incels or r/The_Donald, r/GenderCritical, r/NoNewNormal etc - and they’re the examples from recent, more generally appealing years after the subs named after slurs were nuked. These are the subreddits that got mainstream attention, they may no longer be on Reddit, but their members are, and anyone who would be drawn to them is still signing up, on the other hand lots of people have been turned off the site by those associations. It’s not just that there’s lots of people joining the site, it’s who those people are.

In the same vein it’s a really easy site to astroturf and there’s no doubt in my mind that the “culture wars” are being stoked there because of it. Because there’s a market for aged accounts for use in political astroturfing or general product shilling there are companies running the same shitty repost bots everywhere to produce them. It’s a cycle that seems to be getting shorter and shorter.

It’s cool to see you here! Thanks for giving the full story. I still don’t agree with the decision to open up against the community’s wishes but I am glad that you chose to step back rather than being pushed to. I know the discord is there and I see people starting to come together on kbin/lemmy too so I hope we get a positive space in line with the ethics many of us share again soon.

Oh for sure, I’ve already purged my accounts and I’ve no interest in going back, it’s disappointing though, the same happened to r/emulation but I’m less mad about that, that’s an open source community that dodgy people try to make money off, I’d prefer it be anti community than an outright scam which could reasonably happen if one of the more nefarious app devs had a chance to request it as an inactive forum.

@admiralteal you’re right! It’s already happened, I’ll check periodically to be safe

@SomeoneElse I used Power Delete Suite, it appears to have an option to overwrite instead of straight deleting though it sounds like some forums have got wind of it! https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite/

@Quizmo This account has some useful posts for people from my country accessing healthcare, I’m going to copy them to a suitable wiki, everything else is going for good!

Oh I had, and I was all the better for it!

Some have also polled their userbase elsewhere, the Retro Gaming Network, which represents about 70 subs, polled on Discord - they’re currently 492 to 55 to extend the blackout indefinitely. I’ve just looked at Reddark now and the only sub that’s included from those 70 is r/retrogaming, so add 69 more to the 6250 currently dark.