• Zrob@lemmy.world
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        I hope the games communities here take off, I’m fiending for news lol

      • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.uk
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        Welcome on board - your extensive experience should be a godsend for the relevant communities in here, if you were interested in getting back in the saddle.

        • DrAnthony@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          Thank you! If you know of any communities in Tech/STEM (I’m a phd biochemist btw) that need some help just point me in their direction.

          • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.uk
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            It’s outside my bailiwick but there doesn’t seem a lot that’s relevant apart from:

            At this early stage, it’s often a matter of seeing an unfilled niche and starting a community for it. And that’s why I seem to start one a day. Generally on the “if you build it, they will come” principle.

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        I’m sure it was hard to step away from being so involved with such an incredibly huge community. Good on you though.

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          Thanks, sadly it was a lot easier than you may think. Unless they make major changes there I can’t see them lasting.

          • Bazzatron@lemmy.world
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            1 year ago

            Same story here. Just waiting on my GDPR right to erasure request to be executed before I kill the account entirely.

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              Can you recommend an appropriate community to post questions to about this? I have all the CSV files from Reddit, just not sure how to proceed/request deletion of my posts from Reddit.

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                Search through posts and comments here. I used Redact before the API changes to edit and delete almost everything (left the last week of comments after editing to point to Lemmy). I have no idea if it still works. It may have been killed by the Change. There was at least one tool that used javascript, and it should still work.

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              I was wondering about this, I never posted a lot, mostly lurked and anything I did comment was mostly a stupid joke or question. Is this worth me going through? Fuck spez

        • DrAnthony@lemmy.world
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          If that is who I think you’re referring to, we didn’t overlap. The founders were gone and made persona non grata (the group gets their feelings hurt when people leave) a VERY long time ago so I’m effectively a stranger to them that’s associated with a group that was hostile to them even if I believe there was complete turnover. Have a look at the mod list now, the longest tenured member is probably at the 4 year mark with the bulk of the team at a year or less. It’s a toxic meat grinder.

          • Move to lemm.ee@lemmy.world
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            I see, that makes some sense. A shame really, I was there when they started the place and there when they became an admin. They truly knew what they were doing in terms of creating a space for real and constructive discussion. Explains why you’re here and not over on Tildes though if there’s literally no more connection between you.