The official community is hosted at !pop_os@lemmy.world

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.

        • albsen@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

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

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              1 year ago

              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.

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                1 year ago

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

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                  1 year ago

                  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?

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                    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.

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      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.

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      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