abff08f4813c 8mo ago • 100%
If a Kbin member requests deletion of their personal account and they happen to be a community owner, would ownership of that community default to the moderator with the next-longest tenure? That's how it worked at the bad place, is it the same way here?
Not sure, but account deletion is a manual process here. I suspect what actually happens is that the magazine is tranferred to the default owner / first admin account. On kbin.social that would be ernest.
See for example https://kbin.social/m/trans - a sub with few threads. I think the original owner successfully requested account deletion which is why that sub is owned by ernest now.
See also https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/258090/How-does-Delete-Account-work-currently
How long does account deletion normally take after the deletion is requested?
Not sure of the historical average time. It's a manual process though so it will take some time for the admins to get to it.
Also, do the posts get nuked along with the account, or do they remain on Kbin?
I saw an example of this some months ago. It seems like the posts do get nuked, though with recent updates I'm not 100% certain that this is still the case. Again see /m/trans - most likely it was one of those subs where most of the threads were started by the owner posting, so when the owner's account was deleted, so to did those threads and posts.
Actually it's worse than this - as the entire thread is gone, including other commenters' replies.
abff08f4813c 9mo ago • 100%
Follow up to this - the one place where I can see this happening, that's not in a State, would be D.C.
While the 1973 Home Rule Act is much weaker than having the Constitution reserve certain powers to the States, I'd guess that it does empower enough so that the DC Mayor and the Metropolitan Police Department can investigate and make arrests.
To that end, I'm greatly encouraged by the fact that the one time a US President was arrested, it happened in DC: https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2023/03/21/president-arrested-ulysses-grant-speeding/
abff08f4813c 9mo ago • 100%
Well, if nothing else I'm glad that Clinton v. Jones means he'd not be immune to a civil lawsuit in that case.
I'm pretty sure this would be wrong and couldn't happen. Remember then-commander of the US Strategic Command Air Force General John Hyten saying that he'd refuse to follow an illegal presidential order to launch a nuclear attack? Or retired Air Force General Robert Kehler saying the same thing?
Edit: references:
https://truthout.org/articles/the-duty-to-disobey-a-nuclear-launch-order/
https://apnews.com/article/14eb66de62fc49b181680ccbd7394646
Almost certainly Seal 6 and the military chain of command above these folks would refuse to obey any such order.
And if this guy were to do it himself - well the duties of the President don't include using weapons, let alone assassination - so a good argument would be made that this was his own personal conduct rather than something stemming from the duties of the Presidential Office.
Finally, the murder would almost certainly occur in a State - so even if federal folks have their hands tied, he could be tried and convicted by a State court in absentia. (Perhaps State Troopers wouldn't be able to actually get their hands on him until after he left office, but unless he dies in Office this guy would eventually have to pay for that crime.)
abff08f4813c 9mo ago • 100%
It's been a long time since we've had a major redrawning of parties in the US - remember the Whig party? Heck, Dems and Repubs were once a single party - the Democratic Republicans.
I wonder if a loss would mean the effective end of the GOP, but perhaps a split in the Dems as more liberal (e.g. Basic Income supporters) break off from some more conservative Dems, leading to a new two party system..
abff08f4813c 9mo ago • 100%
One possibility I see is that the SC tries to retain some credibility by punting this back to the states. They rule something along the lines of, without explicit guidance from Congress then each state may come up with their own rules for determining how the insurrection clause applies, and these rules will hold until such time that Congress speaks up, even if they are inconsistent with or even outright contradict the rules from another state.
Thus he technically loses, and is stricken from both democratic Colorado and Maine, but no one will be able to use the SC ruling to get him off the ballot in e.g. Texas or Alabama.
The other way the SC could punt is simply to run out the clock, and when the GOP primaries have been decided simply declare the issue moot. (This wouldn't work if the guy ends up winning the Presidency as then they'd have to resolve the question of his ineligibility at some point - but if he loses in the end they can just wait for him to lose and then say it's moot, because deciding the answer wouldn't have changed the outcome - he wouldn't have become President again either way.) The cynic in me can see the SC preferring to punt this way as it leaves the door open to actually ruling in favor of using the insurrection clause this way - in some future election cycle against a Dem presidential candidate who doesn't deserve it.
abff08f4813c 11mo ago • 100%
The new article links to an academic article which describes the full legal theory, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3978095
The short version, from the news article, is this:
“It appears to the Court that for whatever reason the drafters of Section 3 did not intend to include a person who had only taken the Presidential Oath.”
The academic article goes on in some detail hypothesizing why this might have been the case. Basically at the time it was written, every former President had been some other kind of Officer first, and even today Drumpf is the sole exception, so the omission of the P and VP might have been a sort of compromise to make it easier to get that amendment passed.
The academic article does a good job of proposing that it's not a simple oversight - remember that a former US President had joined the Confederacy at that time, so this sort of thing was exactly at the top of their minds.
As much as I would personally disagree with this, I have to admit that the legal arguments made seem very sound to my layman's understanding of things. Really unfortunate, though I do see a silver lining here - most other challenges have dealt with how hard it is to define an insurrection and if Drumpf really participated or not. At least the judge here did indeed agree with the fact that Drumpf was part of an insurrection.
Perhaps States can pass laws that, in addition to requiring presidential candidates to release their tax returns to be eligible to stand in that State, also require that candidates a) never took part in an insurrection or b) apologized for it. As Drumpf would never apologize, he'd thus not be eligible to stand.
abff08f4813c 12mo ago • 100%
Hey OP, are you covered by the GDPR or CCPA?
If so perhaps you could ask for a copy of your data that lemmy world has on your former accounts, and report to the regulator if they ignore your request. Not sure if federation helps or hurts - like could you say that lemmy world must have something of your data since other federated servers still have a copy of your content?
Would be nice if there was a way to use the GDPR here to bring some addtional accountability to the lemmy world admins.
abff08f4813c 12mo ago • 100%
Would love to hear more about the ansible way.
abff08f4813c 12mo ago • 100%
Perhaps you could assert a copyright claim to the extent that you own your own modified version of the text of the rules - at least the sockpuppet would have to change the wording.
abff08f4813c 12mo ago • 100%
There's reason to be hopeful now. Ernest has posted an update about instance moderators who will be able to moderate mags that are either admin owned (and so otherwise wouldn't have other moderators to moderate them) or for those mags which are abandoned.
https://kbin.social/m/kbinDevlog/t/598708/kbin-RTR-3-The-role-of-a-moderator-at-the-instance
abff08f4813c 1y ago • 100%
Same here. I've been trying to find the time to do this for a while.
abff08f4813c 1y ago • 100%
Interesting. I'm looking to run my own single user instance, so this is something to keep in mind I suppose.
abff08f4813c 1y ago • 100%
Also, specific to the role of Speaker, he’s disqualified due to having been indicted of felonies with a term of more than two years.
abff08f4813c 1y ago • 100%
This is great to hear, regarding the live API on artemis.camp
abff08f4813c 1y ago • 100%
or prison for the chump you suckered into cheap labour.
I'm not seeing the 'or' bit. The article says the driver was already sentenced to nine years back in 2019. So it might be prison and deportation.
It also says he was a new permanent resident when the crime was committed. I'm surprised how they can so easily deport someone who has PR.
allow this situation to happen and all its gonna be is a civil fine for you
Alas, this is the real problem. And this case/hearing isn't going to affect the precedent on that, it will only affect the precedent for the future chumps.
abff08f4813c 1y ago • 100%
Reddit's approach to replacement mod appointments has further damaged community trust in Reddit
Interesting that an article owned by the holding company of reddit (Arstechnica and reddit are both owned by Conde Nast) would be so critical of reddit.
abff08f4813c 1y ago • 100%
The one thing I never understood is why did the Oliver subs go back to normal instead of sticking with Oliver. Finally, interest was lost in the Oliver jokes and traffic was going down. So it would have been the perfect time to enforce Oliver and cut into the ads traffic that way. News articles at the time didn't show any indication that this was another moved forced by reddit admins so why did the mods seemingly cave in without cause?
abff08f4813c 1y ago • 100%
IIRC the official reason was that some automated anti-spam code accidentally caught the kbin user agent and mistakenly added it to a block list, and the lemmy.ml admins were busy and didn't see it for over a week - but once one of them noticed it was promptly fixed.
Also, I recall this being specific to lemmy.ml - other instances run by other admins like lemmy.world and lemmy.ca weren't affected.
abff08f4813c 1y ago • 100%
Following. Would love to get some peertube recommendations.
abff08f4813c 1y ago • 100%
Related, https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/442117/Is-there-a-way-to-report-an-individual-user - a good workaround in the comments there
Spam from the past week on that sub hasn't been dealt with, despite multiple users reporting it. I tried to message the two moderators directly, still waiting for a response. That said, the last activity for either moderator was from last month. Thoughts on what can be done? I can volunteer to mod that sub until one of the regular moderators returns if there's no better solution (though considering how big that magazine is, I'm not sure if one person is enough).
I got this when trying to report [https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/364640/Trendy-Reaction-Videos](https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/364640/Trendy-Reaction-Videos) and also separately got the same when trying to report [https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/364628/Home](https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/364628/Home)
The Winnipeg Police Service is investigating a house fire in the Tyndall Park Neighbourhood after the body of an adult male was found late Thursday night. My condolences to the family of that unfortunate man.
Not my own story, but my original retelling of a public one. Back in the summer of 2017, Devon (in the UK) was suffering from a heat wave. The boys suffered the unbearable heat in trousers. Girls were luckier - skirts were part of the school uniform. One boy, Ryan, asked his teacher for an exception due to the heat, but was told that all clothes worn must be a part of the approved school uniform, without exception. Another boy who asked was given a sarcastic reply: "Well, you can wear a skirt if you like." *Cue malicious compliance.* The next day, Ryan came to school in his uniform. Every item he wore was on the approved list - including his official school skirt. Pretty soon, nearly all the lads were wearing skirts. A few days later, after the worst of the heat wave was over, the headteacher announced that shorts would be allowed as part of the official school uniform starting the next school year. **TL;DR: School won't allow boys to wear shorts in extreme summer heat because it's not on the approved uniform list but sarcastically points out that they can wear skirts. Boys wear said skirts. School gives in and adds shorts to the list.** Original articles: [https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/jun/22/teenage-boys-wear-skirts-to-school-protest-no-shorts-uniform-policy](https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/jun/22/teenage-boys-wear-skirts-to-school-protest-no-shorts-uniform-policy) [https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/jun/23/exeter-schools-uniform-resolve-melts-after-boys-skirt-protest](https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/jun/23/exeter-schools-uniform-resolve-melts-after-boys-skirt-protest)
The best icons are behind a Reddit Premium paywall. To add insult to injury.
Today I just noticed, after trying to convert a reddit link (from this sub!), that teddit is no longer working. We all knew this was coming. Even so...
When I first started the timeline thread for reddit GDPR/CCPA requests, [https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/50981/Reddit-Data-Retrieval-Request-timeline-thread](https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/50981/Reddit-Data-Retrieval-Request-timeline-thread) it seemed virtually no one got theirs. Now, 11 out of 15 have received it. I even got mine via email, despite being permabanned and then deleting my account afterwards. Also, they are really pushing it, but so far no one seems to have gone over the deadline. I do note that I seem to have gotten mine later than some others who put in requests later than I but got theirs earlier. In my case they were just one day shy of 30 days - but I did a request under 'Other' rather than GDPR or CCPA. Hopefully this provides hope for others who want to grab their archive from reddit.
The protests worked, and so did moving/editing/deleting our old content. As one person complains, > > > I'm not here for Reddit, but for the aggregation of niche communities. I follow a lot of obscure manga that have relatively small followings and recently I got into an IT job which opened a lot of technological exploration for me. The worst part about this change isn't even that we are losing 3rd party apps, but that only members of the communities I frequent are the ones who care enough to protest. Can't tell you how many times now I've looked something up on Reddit and find an answer to the issue I have, only to realize that the community is closed or the post is deleted in protest. Now we are stuck in this limbo where protests seem to have lost their steam, niche communities are being overthrown and killed because of that greedy little pigboy. Seriously, fuck spez. > >
This is a great idea. Let's get as many one-star reviews up there as we can! How low can you go-oo-oo-oo
Reddit's downfall is, shocker, Greed and Stupidity
Protests on the social platform have entered a new phase, with users shirking the platform’s NSFW content rules en masse. The development has some media buyers on high alert, experts say.
Reddit protest by its community moderators has impacted user engagements, traffic and visits to its ad portal since its beginning on June 12.
Should we sticky some articles? Followup to [https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/84223/How-to-get-the-word-out-on-how-to-delete](https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/84223/How-to-get-the-word-out-on-how-to-delete) Today I saw a handful of posts from folks who were trying to delete all their content from reddit, including another person who failed and now can't delete their content after their account was deleted. I am thinking of two options here. First, as per the title, we can sticky the best articles made in this magazine, so the first thing a new joiner sees is the warning about the 1000 index limit and the second on how to overcome it. The other way would be to stick an article referring folks to a new magazine. If you look at the first article ever to this magazine from the owner, [https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/12303/Welcome-to-RedditMigration](https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/12303/Welcome-to-RedditMigration) , this magazine was meant to cover all things, news as well as technical questions. However, I fear that the high volume of important news is drowning out the technical aspects. Therefore, it may make sense to copy or link some content into a separate magazine so it is easier to find and to refer to. Not to split the magazine, more like a BestOfRedditMiggirationTechnicalAnswers if that makes sense. Thoughts folks? Especially interested in hearing about this idea from the mods [@tchambers](https://kbin.social/u/@tchambers) & [@Shortcake](https://kbin.social/u/@Shortcake)
Hello yet again, /r/PICS! Things have never looked better (or sexier) here, have they? Honestly, the moderation team wa
Great work by the mods. They maliciously comply with reddit by posting an open letter reminding subscribers to tag NSFW appropriately on their content and especially point out that if folks forgot to do this then this will force them under reddit's own existing rules to go NSFW.
Keep up the good work r/pics, this last one had me wondering if you were actually r/maliciouscompliance !
After deleting my account, which was permabanned, on old dot reddit dot com it still shows up with the user suspended message. On regular reddit dot com on a desktop browser, it instead shows up as blocked. I can continue to view the profile, but then it just says something went wrong and no content shows up. (Because it's not there, it was deleted!) Great job reddit, you can't even handle deleted accounts properly! A sort of follow-up to [https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/85486/Permaban-roll-call](https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/85486/Permaban-roll-call)
u/Awkwardtheturtle somehow posting an update on her reddit ban ... on reddit itself if i'm reading the pic correctly. Not sure how that's possible, maybe someone saw an edited post from her?
According to The Information, Reddit’s revenues were up 38 percent in 2022, but that’s down from the “more than doubling of revenue” it saw from 2020 to 2021. That said, The Information says Reddit still earned “about $670 million” in revenues last year. I don’t know if getting back the $10 million in “pure infrastructure costs” CEO Steve Huffman told me that it takes to support third-party apps is going to make all that much of a difference.