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@Calanthesrose that sucks. Totally feel for you. Someone backed into ours while we were asleep and we didn't have cameras.
What are you doing to help your community?
I've joined the new equivalents of the coule of major communities I was very active in, and have been trying to contribute to conversations instead of just lurking. I know when I joined it was a little disheartening to see so little activity/content. If newcomers are going to stay, there needs to be both!
How do you go from lurking to contributing?
That's a good question. I make it a point to comment on any post I find slightly interesting, and to try and make it a discussion-based comment, not one that just dead-ends immediately.
As far as as posting goes, I'm still working on that one. Reddit was a source of a lot of news and such for me, so I'm slowly getting new sources for that to share.
I think for a lot of people, it's easier to contribute here because the overall user base is so much smaller and it feels like you have a voice, whereas on Reddit even fairly prominent community members could still get drowned out on their community's subreddits by all the noise.
Spreading the word?
I've been talking to friends about my recent shift into the Fediverse and why it's a good concept and how my experience has been. They seem interested in the concept, but aren't bothered by Reddit's actions, so they probably won't jump ship. Not going to be pushy about it, just want people to know how cool the concept is, you know?
Also, what's for breakfast?
Just woke up, so I'm still deciding. Most likely eggs and toast!
@dystop I hate that this happened to you in the first place, but that malicious compliance was...
- chef's kiss *
Millennial here. Lucky enough that about 1/3rd of our friend group (and four family members) are somewhat privacy focused and moved to Signal. But getting the rest of everyone to move to better E2E messaging is rough.
This is exactly it for me. Trust is easy to lose, and difficult if not impossible to regain once it's gone. And that's precisely what Reddit did.
@OasisStorm I was just watching a video on this earlier today. CurseForge states they have completed investigation and cleanup of any infected .jar files in mods hosted on their platform, but people with existing installations of mods should definitely be investigating and remediating any .jar files on their machines. My wife and I will be looking into this since we regularly play modded Minecraft with several other couples.
@AlataOrange Bacon reader was my first 3rd party apps for Reddit and really what made Reddit great for me in the first place. Thank you and the team for doing work that brought me to Reddit!