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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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[–] gravalicious 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

YOU WON'T TRICK ME INTO CLICKING A REDDIT LINK

[–] mmstick 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I quoted the contents of the Reddit post here so you don't have to.

[–] gravalicious 4 points 1 year ago

Lol, thanks mate.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Happy to hear it

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I may not have enjoyed using their distro, but I'm really happy to see this. They're really popular in the desktop Linux market and it may help to get more users over here in the Fediverse.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Good stuff. Welcome to the Fediverse, Pop!_OS!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Here are a few links to the community (thanks System76!). Community links on Lemmy haven't been streamlined yet

[–] albsen 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you want to follow from within your instance search for this: [email protected] the ! Is important.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It would be cool if the "! links" linked to the community in comments. Maybe someone in the community could code that ?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (6 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?

[–] mmstick 6 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] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

beehaw has defederated lemmy.world.

[–] albsen 2 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] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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

[–] albsen 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for sharing this link. That clarified it nicely. I think its a bit odd considering they literally stopped approving new accounts at the same time as defederating. But again, they seem to have a clear vision in mind for all of this and that's fine. On the flip side, this disqualified them from any large support community that might want to migrate over as the reach is going to be limited. Mastodon has the same issue with people asking to defederate the main instance all the time...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 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.

[–] dimspace 2 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] 1 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] 2 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

Lol they wanted to be one of the biggest instances, and now are complaining because they are big. Thats basically it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It works from over here on kbin.social

[–] [email protected] 2 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

You are not. Generally a search in the Communities list would be enough to sync it up. Something odd on that instance.

[–] [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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The community link isn't rendering correctly for me on Jerboa. The c/ isn't attached so if you try to click on the link it tries to send an email.

[–] mmstick 1 points 1 year ago

It wasn't actually a link, but I've made it a link now so the mobile app won't do this.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

The man, the myth, the legend! Seeing you here makes me feel happy.

[–] kerneltux 3 points 1 year ago

Glad that you're going this route, just sub'd.

[–] Zoness 2 points 1 year ago

This is great to hear!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

As a pop os and system 76 user this is awesome.

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

Oh my god oh my god oh ky god auto tiling by default? Ooooooh cooool. I'm so in. Gone are the days of endlessly experimenting with xmonad and never truly being happy with the results. (It's been a while though.)

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

Last I checked their tiling WM features only work with X11 and not wayland

[–] humdrumgentleman 1 points 1 year ago

I can't speak to this on actual Pop_OS!, but I run an Arch-based system with GNOME Wayland and gnome-shell-extension-pop-shell-git installed from the AUR. It generally works well.

That said, I'm transitioning to the Forge GNOME extension, as it provides similar functionality and doesn't break for a few days following each major GNOME release.

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