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The official community is hosted at [email protected]

On June 12th, we joined the Reddit Blackout to protest against the loss of third party clients that will happen on July 1st with Reddit's API pricing changes. There is open source software which relies on these APIs to function, as well as various third party clients that improve accessibility and UX over Reddit's desktop and official mobile app. Some of them have better moderation tools to make managing a subreddit easier.

Many rely on our extensive history of support requests and answers on the platform for troubleshooting day to day issues on Linux and Pop!_OS, so we are going back to a public status. A better way to protest may be for users to migrate towards open source decentralized alternatives.

So during that downtime, we've started a community on an open source Reddit alternative, Lemmy, which also happens to be written in Rust. Those who'd like to be on an open platform can join us here as an alternative to Reddit.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

That's cool. I can't seem to access it from this instance I'm on though? We are federated with lemmy.world.

So I tried https://feddit.uk/c/[email protected] - am I being an idiot?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It works from over here on kbin.social

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Maybe give it a while? Sometimes it takes a while to populate across servers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I get the same issue when trying to access the community from there. https://lemmy.ml/c/[email protected] works fine though. And https://beehaw.org/c/[email protected] only synced the first few posts before they blocked it. If they haven't blocked lemmy.world, then perhaps their server hasn't synced with it in a while.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

beehaw has defederated lemmy.world.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Really, how do I check on this? I'm on Lemmy.world and follow multiple topics on beehaw at the moment.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Relevant defederation thread (their reasoning is kinda bad imo)... https://beehaw.org/post/567170

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not dumb. The current moderation tools were not enough for the mods to stop the incoming spam from lemmy.world. If things improve, they will de-defederate again.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

but.. the modlog is public.. there wasnt a huge swathe of users banned or modded by beehaw

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I may be wrong, but wasn't it a pre-emptive measure because they were afraid of the open registrations on lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

So basically, shit reasoning. They defederated because something might happen. A lot of things might happen. That's no reason to not do things in life.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I think you need to search for the community first on your instance to start the sync. So just paste the link into the search field (the search will probably come up empty), wait for a few seconds and then try to load the community.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I discovered that if the subreddit hasn’t been accessed from your instance before, then you have to copy and paste the link from the original instance into the search bar, then it’ll start showing that community