I’m just this guy, you know?

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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • “Restricted” means the app has been limited by your Android on the amount of data it may transmit/receive as a background app. The app settings assume you’re on a meterd or low-volume data plan, and so they don’t transmit data except when they’re active, or up on your screen.

    Their upload/download tallies will still count in your Network accounting. Frankly, your screenshot looks like something I’d expect. Nothing untoward seems to be occurring.

    Let those other restricted apps 'run in background" (an app permission) and you’ll see a different picture.

















  • If you’re considering leaving Reddit, consider also salting the earth on your way out.

    Check out PowerDeleteSuite, a Chrome* plugin that can edit/delete posts in a user’s history. https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite

    Just follow the install instructions on the page and let it rip. You can act on or exempt specific subs, act on age, exempt by status, etc. It will also export deleted and modified comments to a CSV for your own use.

    I nuked my accounts, editing all comments to “This comment has been deleted in protest of the Reddit API changes of June 2023. Consider visiting Lemmy.world or Kbin.social for an alternative news source.”

    I’ll probably go back in on the 29th or 30th and delete everything before closing the accounts.

    worked on Chromium for me. Never had success with Firefox, and I don’t touch Edge.
    

    (Disclaimer: I have no affiliation with this project)

    Discussion: I arrived at posting this after some soul-searching about destroying inforamtion. In the end, my contributions were derivative from still-extant and viable sources, while I consider Reddit to be a lost cause. I decided it was more abhorrent to me that they continue to profit off the back of my freely-contributed content than to reclaim my contributions, and rehost those contributions at a later date under a more friendly banner.

    That was my calculus. You, reader, are welcome respectfully to disagree.


  • Check out PowerDeleteSuite, a Chrome* plugin that can edit/delete posts in a user’s history. https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite

    Just follow the install instructions on the page and let it rip. You can act on or exempt specific subs, act on age, exempt by status, etc. It will also export deleted and modified comments to a CSV for your own use.

    I nuked my accounts, editing all comments to “This comment has been deleted in protest of the Reddit API changes of June 2023. Consider visiting Lemmy.world or Kbin.social for an alternative news source.”

    I’ll probably go back in on the 29th or 30th and delete everything before closing the accounts.

    • worked on Chromium for me. Never had success with Firefox, and I don’t touch Edge.


  • Eh. I did open reddit by accident a two times today myself, idly tapping the Relay icon and swiping it away on the loading screen.

    But… I’ve also nuked my post history on all of my alts. My main account was a contributor on some tech subs where, while I abhor reddit making money off my freely given contributions, I also abhor the wanton destruction of freely exchanged information at a cultural level.

    I’m considering how I could spare those posts and nuke the rest while I figure how to rehost that content elsewhere. Then again, I got that same info from somewhere else, and those sites still work so maybe the argument is academic.

    Even I don’t know what I’m about to do yet. Interesting times, indeed.