but TBH i also wiped all my comments clean using powerdeletesuite
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chicken face badger dumptruck jungle hard-disk label mango - I havent redacted anything, just the after effects of a stroke.
Is this your crypto key?
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I understood that reference.
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Ask here in lemmy.
I posted a question a couple of days ago in Windows 98 community. After submitting the post, I noticed last post submitted was 2 years ago.
I felt down and thought about deleting the post but to my surprise I got an answer in an hour or so.
Posted a question to lemdro.id last week and sofar only got useless bot replies that seemed to have scrolled previous reddit posts about the same question.
edit: to fix bad phone autocorrect.
I’m not expecting the same results to be always similar to my experience or at least positive.
Also, I’d stick to popular instances since I’d expect moderators to be stricter than random instances when it comes to bots.
Some communities decided to have a separate instance such as piracy iirc.
lemdro.id is quite strict regarding bots, I run it! I’m not sure what post they were referring to since I can’t see it in their history
This is one of the bots that responded. I did a “bad bot” type reply to it and it delete or someone delete it’s post. https://lemdro.id/u/GPT4
I dont particularly have an issue with bots and this one is clearly marked a bot. The main issue is that it just searched and summarized the top 10 reddit answers to the same question which I had already done… Im sure the bot didnt break any of the bot rules. It’s just that bots dont generally give good answers to questions without refinement to the parameters. If I was directly using ChatGPT I’m sure I could get it to give an acceptable answer to most questions. But a random bot giving a general answer is not much use. (To me at least).
Sometimes people just dont have answers to the questions… Bots always do sadly even when they are not correct.
Hey, thanks for pointing this out. I asked around and this is actually ran by one of the other admins on the instance. They generate the responses manually and then paste them as a comment. The account is marked as a bot so that users can disable showing bot accounts in their profile settings.
I know this doesn’t functionally change your point, but Lemdro.id is still growing (over 10k subscribers now…), so hopefully you can get some better answers in the future.
I imagine as it grows it will become more useful. It’s not particularly my viewpoint that lemdro.id isnt useful. The opposite is true. I was just pointing out in my original post that, sadly, all I’ve gotten sofar were unhelpful bot responses. I wasnt particularly trying to push an agenda or anything. I like lemdro.id and am registered there and will help where I can to make it better… but also bots… :D
No worries, your experience is totally valid thanks for sharing it. I’ll mention it to the other admin running that account :)
So all you’re saying is that deleting your posts to get the engagement down works perfectly?
A few days after the API changes were announced, a massive number of old-reddit pages were archived. Technically-minded people should have no issue finding the original comments.
And the traffic doesn’t go to reddit, which is exactly what we want.
Unfortunately, this comment is only 4 months old, which means it isn’t in the data that is separated nicely in individual subreddit files. Instead it requires parsing through a massive 151GB file. Let’s see how long it takes me to get the edited comments.
It’s been two minutes now. How’s it going?
Looks like the data from the-eye.eu/redarcs only goes up to the start of March. But luckily the folks at ArchiveTeam processed the post at a time before the comment was edited. It can be seen here.
I actually started a while before I commented. It seems that the comment isn’t actually in the file I downloaded. I might need to get the one before it that is triple the size… I’m not sure if I have the space for this.
Bold to assume most people going to Reddit for answers to questions are technically-minded.
This guy’s taking a screenshot of a thread on r/HomeAssistant looking for advice on how to reverse proxy multiple services at their gateway router so they can access their self-hosted HomeAssistant and NextCloud from different subdomains at the same IP address.
Pretty sure they’re a technical user.
But yeah in general it sucks but I’d consider Reddit a dead resource at this point. But, if you do find content there that is useful, REPOST IT HERE. Let’s make this place useful for nontechnical users!
Now that I totally agree with.
It’s actually in r/homelab. I’m currently trying my damndest to recover the edited comments because useful information being removed really pisses me off.
I got more help on r/selfhosted and c/selfhosted than I did on Traefik’s own forums
I do, it’s usually nice to have voted users’ opinions of niche subreddits on pros and cons of different tools. Fi first search usually is “some problem I am having”, after 5-10 minutes, the second one is “some problem I am having reddit”.
It’s nice to see recommendations done by real humans of their personal preferences instead of 5-6 blog posts, those shitty versus pages that show nothing or closed SO questions because the answers are opinionated.
sometimes you can find answer to things that aren’t even answered in stack overflow but answered in reddit. that was one of the things which made me use reddit at one point. hope lemmy create that kinda community here too.
This is why I haven’t touched any of my own comments
Me as well. I’ve been in situations where complete strangers online have answered and helped me so many times regarding problems I’ve had, so I’ve tried to return the favor through reddit and other platforms. I have no intention of doing this, this is just… mean IMO. You open the link in hope of finding an answer and you run into… this 😒.
While as a user it sucks that is exactly the reasons people do it. It takes the value away from reddit, if the content that users want to see it not there people will not go there.
What I find the best compromise is users that take their comments they had on reddit and post them again as it’s own post to lemmy with the context needed. While not perfect the information is at least not lost completely and a google search in the future might actually bring someone to a lemmy instance instead of to a corporation like reddit. But that is obviously a lot of work to do, especially if you have lot of helpful comments on reddit.
You know how I joined reddit? None of the reasons everyone else might have, it just looked like a cool place. No one uses it where I live, except a few hundred people.
That being said, this was after years and years of me leeching off of comments on reddit. So, I thought I’d give the community something back… it’s only fair. I come from the forum scene, that’s how forums work. And let’s be honest, no matter how much we started hating a place, we never did this back in the day. Why? The info shared in those posts is probably more valuable than whatever we’re trying to achieve by doing this.
Of course, it’s your choice, your account. I’m just saying that I think it’s selfish and mean and that I would never do it. The free flow of info is what keeps the net going. You start tempering with that and you’re just fueling more users into mass media (if everyone did this, users can’t find any info about anything they’re troubleshooting and just return to doomscrolling on FB/IG/Twitter).
I agree, it seems very petty to me. If you don’t like the direction just leave, what’s the point of trying to burn it down? Especially given how much we all got out of it throughout the golden years. I say just mourn and move on.
Exactly. Just move on.
This is the only effective way to protest reddit, though.
I care more about being helpful than protesting Reddit.
Protest and stand up to free labour cooperations.
Archive your profile on archive.org and then fuck Reddit.
How do you archive your profile on archive.org?
That won’t make it easier to find when troubleshooting for a problem online. And your profile is tied to conversations in threads, simply archiving your posts is just a blob of useless data with no context.
I erased everything that wasn’t in a private subreddit or technical sub. I value the help I gave over the value I remove. Everything else is gone though, which was most of my account.
Me as well. One of the reasons why I will never do this.
As someone who helped to generate those types of answers and then deleted them all.
Fuck Reddit, they didn’t pay me for that work and then they dicked me over in chase of a half penny. Sorry the rest of the world doesn’t get to use my work for free, but Reddit broke the agreement. I post content, they provide a good user experience. They failed their end, I rescinded mine.
I never got paid for anything either, but neither did everyone else that helped me over the years.
Of course, the choice is yours, but it’s not OK IMO.
Comments and posts that are just for entertainment, sure. But technical help isn’t a transaction between you and Reddit. It’s a friendly transaction between users purely out of the desire to help, and leaving it available to those who have the same question.
It’s like those posts asking for assistance on something extremely specific you also need help on, only for the next post to read, “never mind I figured it out” with no additional information.
Yeah, you might hurt Reddit by removing that information, but you’re also hurting everyone else that may need help in the future.
It’s a friendly transaction between users purely out of the desire to help, and leaving it available to those who have the same question.
Further, it’s a transaction that Reddit facilitated out of their own pocket. I think people are being extremely petty about it. It’s best to just mourn and move on, we can still appreciate the golden years that Reddit gave us.
I agree. It’s really annoying that now a bunch of incredibly helpful information has disappeared. This might hurt Reddit but it also hurts everyone else who might have benefited from it.
Every comment should have a reason why it is like this
Reasons don’t fix the issue - the answer is mising.
[-] thunderbox666 « 1 point 2 months ago
Pretty much any subdomain will go to the nginx server and it will only do something if youve configured that subdomain in the config - everything else just gets ignored, or you can setup a catchall to handle all the unconfigured stuff
so you will need something like this (might not be exact, been a long time since i had to configure NGINX haha)
server { server_name ha.mydomain.duckdns.org; location / { proxy_pass http://hostnameOrIP1:port1; } } server { server_name nextcloud.mydomain.duckdns.org; location / { proxy_pass http://hostnameOrIP2: port } }an easier way would be to use Nginx Proxy Manager which gives you a nice GUI to add and manage all the sites.
To add to an answer, caddy is better fit for reverse proxy in my opinion. It’s like easier to configure version of nginx. With nginx proxy_pass you also have to configure other headers like x_forwarded_to, and you will also need to do some magic to get websockets working.
And also caddy automatically generates certs using ACME, by default.
Thanks!
sharing actual text makes it searchable and easier to archive for the future
[-] thunderbox666 « 1 point 2 months ago Anything that has a web service, such as nextcloud or home assistant, can be setup on a domain or sub domain
So you would setup the domain (for example let’s say you have myhome. duckdns.org) to point to your server running nginx reverse proxy, and then configure all your services in there
So you might setup homeassistant.myhome.duckdns.org and point it to the internal address you use for home assistant, eg http://192.168.1.15:8123
Then you might add nextcloud as nextcloud.myhome.duckdns.org to point to https://192.168.1.15 These can all be on the same machine as nginx reverse proxy or on another machine all together
Some of these services might also need extra configuration but most will also have guides on their site on what you need to configure to work with a reverse proxy
Damn this is incredibly convenient, I was just playing around trying to setup a home server the past few days and this was exactly what I’ve been looking for.
LMAO I’m dying.
I wonder how many people did this. I did, and deleted my posts as well. But I was mostly a lurker there and so my edits and deletes didn’t really mean anything.
I did it to over 85000 comments across 6 accounts
Guess Big Jim is fitting.
For what reason did you have 6 accounts?
I would typically abandon an account after one year and make a new one. I used my first one for about 6 years before I started that practice, which was spurred because I got doxxed by a malicious mod.
BuT yOuR kArMa?!?!
Too big for just one jim
I did my own script for it. Most were deleted, a few recent ones were left edited.
It does suck for someone who wanted anything useful I posted, but ultimately I think Reddit having it to draw any traffic is more harmful. I want them to lose their stranglehold now that they’re abusing it.
I changed mine to the vaporeon copypasta
The Home Assistant community is very responsive and can help with this kind of stuff if you can’t find the answers you need just from searching around.
I’ve done the exact same thing on 2 accounts. There was some good information on them but now it’s a bunch of gibberish.
To answer the question…
Yes. You can do that. Quite easily. Just need a reverse proxy. I prefer traefik. Nginx is the most commonly used option here.
Caddy is the quickest to setup, IMO
I’ll second traefik.
I’ll dissent here and point out that Traefik is much more difficult to set up. The documentation is not great and it’s just a far more complicated process. I’m actually still on Traefik 2.x because I just flat out don’t have the time to re-learn everything for 3.x.
Practically nothing changed for 3.x for me.
May I ask what you prefer about traefik over nginx? I’ve been using nginx for a long time, so I’m just curious.
Integrates REALLY well/extremely easily with docker/kubernetes. (Which- is where 98% of my reverse proxy usage is)
Although, even the services I don’t have running in my k8s cluster… are still proxied through the traefik in my k8s cluster, as I really enjoy the manifest-based configuration and deployments.
I’ll have to give it a closer look. I’ve been using ingress-nginx in my k8s clusters, but one of my colleagues has been recommending that I take a look at traefik.
Either option will work, I just prefer using docker’s ingressroute CRDs. Also, docker can be used as the default ingress controller as well.
It does have a simple rudimentary dashboard as well.
That dashboard looks handy. The lack of one for ingress-nginx is frustrating.
https://nginxproxymanager.com/
There is this
Thank you, I hadn’t looked around in quite a while I guess. That is getting deployed tomorrow!
I like Nginx too. I’m familiar with the config syntax since I’ve been using it for a long time, and it’s useful being able to use the same software for both reverse proxies and for regular websites.
I have a bunch of config snippets in /etc/nginx/snippets/ for things like a base proxy config, secure TLS settings (eg for things that aren’t public-facing, I only enable TLS 1.3), WordPress sites, etc that I just import where needed. Most of the config is in reusable snippets.
Nuking your comments doesn’t hurt Reddit or Spez, it just hurts other users who are looking for the answers that you gave. If you want to leave Reddit, it’s better to just leave
As I posted in response to another comment along these lines:
While as a user it sucks that is exactly the reasons people do it. It takes the value away from reddit, if the content that users want to see it not there people will not go there.
What I find the best compromise is users that take their comments they had on reddit and post them again as it’s own post to lemmy with the context needed. While not perfect the information is at least not lost completely and a google search in the future might actually bring someone to a lemmy instance instead of to a corporation like reddit. But that is obviously a lot of work to do, especially if you have lot of helpful comments on reddit.
By hurting potential users looking for the naswrdz you’ve diminished the usefulness of the site.
It’s a long play. frankly nobody wins and everyone loses.
the naswrdz
The only answer I’m looking for is how did you manage this typo 😉
(Also, you’re right)
I haven’t got a goddamn clue. I’m not even sure what I was trying to type? Content? Information?
Wait. Answer!
I don’t care if nobody wins, I just want spez to lose
Yep. Fire Steve Huffman!
If one of their goals is to sell premium access to train LLMs this type of gibberish would hurt that. When you can’t guarantee that the data source is coherent, then that would have an impact on the final model that is created.
I think a better approach is to transfer comments to a new platform or create new higher quality content. Could the solution to this problem become a guide that goes into more detail?
the point is to devalue Reddit so people won’t go there. And if people don’t go to Reddit anymore, who do you think it’s gonna hurt?
FYI you’re looking for a reverse proxy. There are addons for HA that handle that, such as NGINX Proxy Manager.
I just scratched my screen for 1 min trying to remove the “hair” over your profile picture 😗
😘
I love you
You didn’t wipe your comments, you only created a new version. And if you deleted them, it’s only a soft delete. Reddit still holds your data. I proved this by doing a gdpr request and received stuff I’d wiped and deleted four years before.
GDPR also allows you to do a data deletion request.
Not necessarily deletion, anonymization would free your info from any GDPR requirements and Reddit couldn’t care less if your username is there or not
Shitty life protip: edit all your comments to include PII and then Reddit will be in violation of the GDPR 😆
Considering that you could hypothetically leave personal information in your comments, would those comments not also need to be deleted?
Yes, if the comments contain PII after your article 17 request Reddit would be in violation
Ah yes, the “Right to be forgotten”
You are correct, of course. However, they are well within their rights to not delete your data. Look up “Legitimate interest” - it’s a huge GDPR loophole and widely abused. (Certainly in charity fundraising in which I used to work)
The LI can be for their own business purposes, including profiling, machine learning and of course, advertising.
It can also, and usually is, need to keep data in case they receive a legal order to provide it. In the event of Reddit being used for terrorism purposes (which I’m sure it has, along with every other messaging platform), they will be required to produce that information. Which they can’t if it’s gone.
We wave the GDPR around like it solves all our problems. And whilst it does add a huge amount of public protection and it’s impressive it made it into law given those objecting to it, it does not give you the right to your own data above all else.
That’s not true. I edited (nearly) all my comments. Then did a GDPR request. All the comments I touched were overwritten in there.
I didn’t catch all of them though, it’s damn tough to get every single one. If you just go through your profile page by page they don’t show all. If you select “Top” comments you find more. If you select “Controversial” you find even more and so on. So I only managed to overwrite maybe 95% or something, but it’s good enough.
Oh and they also have caching and spam protection. So you have to slowly overwrite comments, about one comment every 3 seconds or you get rate limited. And directly after overwriting the comment it might still show up in the old version till their caching servers catch up. So maybe you thought you overwrote your comments, but in reality the requests failed in the background because you went too fast.
Whilst I totally understand your comments and even appreciate them, I still believe I am right.
About four years ago I used NukeReddit - a similar script that loads your comment history, edits each posts, replaces the text with nonsense and saves it. Then deletes the post. I did that because someone got close to identifying me IRL and I didn’t want them to, and wanted to tidy up my own data leakage.
After that, I continued using Reddit until the recent nonsense when I decided to leave to good. First, I used Power Delete, repeating it over several days to delete thousands of comments and hundreds of posts. About a week after that, I submitted a GDPR data request. Another week, I deleted my account. About a week after /that/, I received the GDPR response containing several CSV files containing my data. That included posts and comments I’d made from 11 years ago when I had created that account.
That data had survived two quite thorough scrubs and deletions, and whilst I no longer have access to that account, I believe my data and my account are still there - just unavailable to me.
I do know a little about data and databases, and in many mature projects, deleting posts simply sets an is_deleted column with the date it’s deleted. Editing a message simply creates a copy of that message, sets the original as is_deleted with a date, and sets the copy with the edited text. That’s standard and honestly, I don’t know why Reddit would not do that.
Also consider that Reddit may be under a legal obligation NOT to delete data. If there is a criminal investigation at a later date, they will need to be able to provide that information. “Sorry Mr Government, we deleted Bin Laden’s posts where he incited terrorism to dozens of other suspects” is not going to be received well.
The bottom line is that only Reddit architects will know for certain, but I’d put real money on betting that I’m right.#
You can believe what you want, but I literally did this a month ago. Editing my comments, then submitting a GDPR request and getting a large package of my data. Showing every up and downvote for example (which was over a million entries, ouch) and every comment and post I ever made in the last 11 years.
Deleting your comment does not delete the database entry. It’s up to discussion if that conforms to GDPR, because theoretically you could have personal data in your comment… but for now they don’t delete them. So obviously your GDPR request will contain deleted comments, as they are still right where you left them (and you agreed to the terms and conditions of Reddit which technically make any content you post on their platform their content legal wise).
If you edited your comment and then deleted it and the GDPR request showed the original comment… then that’s a different matter. As far as I tried out they don’t keep the comment from before the edit around. Though if you do it too fast, instant edit and delete maybe something gets messed up and the edit doesn’t stick. But this hasn’t happened to me yet (except I edit more than one comment in 3 seconds, then it gets rate limited).
Reddit admitted they only keep the last version of your comments around, so if you edit them with random crap it’s as close to deletion as you can get.
but TBH i also wiped all my comments clean using powerdeletesuite
Same here! “No IPOs without APIs” is what I spread around 14 years of active Reddit use. Let it sit a few weeks to get backed up a few times and then erased it all.
Time to buy stock in Stack Overflow, I guess.
I wouldn’t. That place is its own dumpster fire.
Better short it.
