Lemmy is like email: There are multiple providers such that no provider has total control. Think of gmail, outlook, or protonmail - they can all send email to any email address - the difference between them is who has control of your data.
Presumably, if someone squats on a lemmy community*, we could simply use another homeserver**, or contact the admins of a homeserver, who are much more likely to take action than reddit admins.
Edit: [I am worried about Lemmy in concerns to privacy](https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/110522257089980041)
*community - the equivalent of a subreddit on lemmy
**homeserver - a server that provides lemmy or other federated apps
In that case, all us cool kids should just migrate over there anyways, and leave the corporate echo chamber of reddit for their corporate shills to advertise to each other.
No corporation learns their lesson indefinitely. Even if we win the current struggle, we'll just have to replay it again in 6-12 months
If anyone needs a free VPS for setting up their Lemmy server, DM me as I have a plan.
If enough people are interested, I'll go ahead and write a tutorial of sorts.
There's no threat so Reddit won't take the shutdowns seriously. [Lemmy needs to be explicitly mentioned](https://www.reddit.com/r/Save3rdPartyApps/comments/141ga7o/lemmy_should_be_mentioned_more_in_the_shutdown/) and Premium subscriptions need to be canceled.
It's essentially a boycott demonstrating people are very unhappy with Reddit about this decision. Personally I'm not gonna use the official Reddit app, so while I probably won't be off Reddit entirely, my usage time is gonna go down by 90+% since it will only be when I'm on the computer and need to look at something specific/ask questions.
I mean why are you on this subreddit at all if you don't care about 3rd party apps? Do you go to climate change marches holding a sign that says "I don't care about climate change"? (Rhetorical question, you really don't have to answer.)
Here's that attention you ordered, I guess. Here I am, another human being responding to you. I hope this satisfies your need to be acknowledged. Go do something else, or stay here and repeatedly mention how you don't care about the thing we care about.
obviously cause im seeing people talking about a blackout and wanted to know what they were talking about. Didn't read the rest of your comment since the first paragraph looks like you're going into some stupid strawman.
Honestly, I do not personally use the 3rd party apps as far as I know. I think the bigger issue is that MODs use the 3rd party apps to make moderating more streamlined. It is likely that some of their current workflows/processes aren't even possible outside of the 3rd party apps since Reddits proprietary apps are apparently hot garbage.
I'm not a super user or anything so my tiny traffic won't affect them but most of my normal subs are participating in the blackout so I guess I will too lol.
Reddit will look at the metrics of traffic on their site after the blackout and consider demodding the mods that agreed to this over changing course. From there, it's up to the communities to respond accordingly i.e. completely shit on the front page of the site. Let the paid interns try to keep up with the free modding labor these CEOs took for granted.
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Tildes is a bit better from a UI perspective. You have to get an invite from /r/tildes but they've been handing them out as fast as they're able for people requesting.
seriously. what good is a protest if they just have to wait a couple days for it to blow over?? don't give them ANY options, EXCEPT meeting our demands.
My state’s sub here was all “pwn the libs, COVID fake, tfg messiah!” I started posting thoughtful questions and opinions and got a lot of dv’s for a month or so. Then others started doing the same. It’s still lopsided, but the weight is distributing. I’d imagine if that can happen on Reddit, it can happen anywhere else.
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It hurts to delete what might be useful to someone, but due to Reddit's ongoing entshittification (look up the term if you're not familiar) I've left the platform for the Fediverse. If you never want your experience to be ruined by a corporation again, I can't recommend Lemmy enough!
So many people will just open their 3rd party app one day and it won't work.
They'll see what happened and then just never come back.
Reddit replaced digg because of all of us... we will simply go elsewhere.
Yep. I came from the mass Digg exodus and I'll just not come back. It's been a good long run but it will honestly be for the good. I waste so damn much time on this site I'm honestly welcoming it a bit.
Are we finally going back to old school BBS forums with this change? If so I'm all here for it! It's not that I support Reddit's greed, I just missed the times when the internet felt like a small space for your niche hobbies.
Expansion + fragmentation and consolidation. We've done it before. It seems cyclical.
From BBSes to Fidonet to AOL to Usenet to internet forums to link aggregators to what Reddit's become (originally starting as a link aggregator). We've definitely gone through a few rounds of expansion of places for discussion then consolidation of large numbers of topics into fewer locations.
Don't get me wrong, I've enjoyed all of those various eras, having been through them all, but I do appreciate the simplicity of being able to use Reddit for most of my forum discussions while being able to discover new things on the regular that I wouldn't if information were scattered again like it was in the internet forums era.
If they know how long the shutdown is gonna last, they can have an idea of how much it's gonna backfire on them. However, if the shutdown lasts indefinitely...
Reddit would need to see a serious drop in ad revenue for this protest to even do anything and that'll likely take longer than 2 days. On top of that we also need as many people as possible to stop using the site completely - Large subs shutting down won't mean shit if people carry on using Reddit anyway.
Probably multi-stage. 3rd part app death will be one but there's also also the old.reddit.com potential death that will push additional people off. From there, I suppose it depends on how it goes with moderation. Poor moderation could definitely drive more people away. Not sure if it would be a mass exodus or more a gradual migration.
The subreddit blackout over Covid misinformation was effective, but it was for a whole week. I do think a week is much better, because then you get the attention of nearly everyone, even those people who only login every few days.
The admins have the control over the site. They can overrule that and force new mods in key subreddits, as they have done before with Kotaku in Action.
https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/13/17568598/reddit-employee-gamergate-forum-kotaku-in-action-creator
Hell no. Not yet. Honestly, 2 days will be hard for me, but I will do it in the name of solidarity. Lets see where that gets us first. They aren't as deaf as other sites, lets give em a chance...
There is an inherent threat in the message the mods sent the admins. We can find somewhere else to go, together with unity as a community.
where, tho? hell, don't get me wrong, if RIF is gone, so am I, I just want to know where we're migrating, cause this is my social life, my dude
I've heard of this Lemmy thing: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy I didn't get around to learning much more about it, but it sounds promising.
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Lemmy is like email: There are multiple providers such that no provider has total control. Think of gmail, outlook, or protonmail - they can all send email to any email address - the difference between them is who has control of your data. Presumably, if someone squats on a lemmy community*, we could simply use another homeserver**, or contact the admins of a homeserver, who are much more likely to take action than reddit admins. Edit: [I am worried about Lemmy in concerns to privacy](https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/110522257089980041) *community - the equivalent of a subreddit on lemmy **homeserver - a server that provides lemmy or other federated apps
Can I make one Lemmy login and join multiple servers, or do I need to create individual usernames and passwords for every server?
Correct me if I am wrong, but do Lemmy admins have any jurisdiction in non-official communities?
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Thanks for clearing it up, I was worried for a moment 😅
In that case, all us cool kids should just migrate over there anyways, and leave the corporate echo chamber of reddit for their corporate shills to advertise to each other. No corporation learns their lesson indefinitely. Even if we win the current struggle, we'll just have to replay it again in 6-12 months
it has a long way to go before it could sway more than small amounts of users.
If anyone needs a free VPS for setting up their Lemmy server, DM me as I have a plan. If enough people are interested, I'll go ahead and write a tutorial of sorts.
I am building my own, and they can suck ass. Mean time I join Lemmy or find better ways to occupy my time.
There's no threat so Reddit won't take the shutdowns seriously. [Lemmy needs to be explicitly mentioned](https://www.reddit.com/r/Save3rdPartyApps/comments/141ga7o/lemmy_should_be_mentioned_more_in_the_shutdown/) and Premium subscriptions need to be canceled.
Not just Lemmy but Kbin as well
Y'all go ahead, imma stay here. The fuck is this blackout shit??
It's essentially a boycott demonstrating people are very unhappy with Reddit about this decision. Personally I'm not gonna use the official Reddit app, so while I probably won't be off Reddit entirely, my usage time is gonna go down by 90+% since it will only be when I'm on the computer and need to look at something specific/ask questions.
Some * people. I couldn't give less of a shit lol
Okay?? Fuck off then, why are you here?
Cause you replied....
I mean why are you on this subreddit at all if you don't care about 3rd party apps? Do you go to climate change marches holding a sign that says "I don't care about climate change"? (Rhetorical question, you really don't have to answer.) Here's that attention you ordered, I guess. Here I am, another human being responding to you. I hope this satisfies your need to be acknowledged. Go do something else, or stay here and repeatedly mention how you don't care about the thing we care about.
obviously cause im seeing people talking about a blackout and wanted to know what they were talking about. Didn't read the rest of your comment since the first paragraph looks like you're going into some stupid strawman.
Honestly, I do not personally use the 3rd party apps as far as I know. I think the bigger issue is that MODs use the 3rd party apps to make moderating more streamlined. It is likely that some of their current workflows/processes aren't even possible outside of the 3rd party apps since Reddits proprietary apps are apparently hot garbage. I'm not a super user or anything so my tiny traffic won't affect them but most of my normal subs are participating in the blackout so I guess I will too lol.
Yeah strikes and protests shouldn't have an end date they'll just wait out a couple days
I think of it more as a warning shot
Reddit will look at the metrics of traffic on their site after the blackout and consider demodding the mods that agreed to this over changing course. From there, it's up to the communities to respond accordingly i.e. completely shit on the front page of the site. Let the paid interns try to keep up with the free modding labor these CEOs took for granted.
We strike for two days and if they don't comply, we strike longer. That how I thought this goes.
Start working on parallel platform now.
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There isn't anything like it that I know. We need some cross posting apps
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I just went on those sites and their UIs suck. Why do the side bars have to be blank? It's literally the same problem with new reddit, but worse.
Tildes is a bit better from a UI perspective. You have to get an invite from /r/tildes but they've been handing them out as fast as they're able for people requesting.
Ugh. I could make something way better but dont have time. Wish I could get funding
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I'm sure they already have some canned back down offer that's still going to be terrible but seems better by comparison
seriously. what good is a protest if they just have to wait a couple days for it to blow over?? don't give them ANY options, EXCEPT meeting our demands.
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My state’s sub here was all “pwn the libs, COVID fake, tfg messiah!” I started posting thoughtful questions and opinions and got a lot of dv’s for a month or so. Then others started doing the same. It’s still lopsided, but the weight is distributing. I’d imagine if that can happen on Reddit, it can happen anywhere else.
Original comment/post removed using Power Delete Suite. It hurts to delete what might be useful to someone, but due to Reddit's ongoing entshittification (look up the term if you're not familiar) I've left the platform for the Fediverse. If you never want your experience to be ruined by a corporation again, I can't recommend Lemmy enough!
"Be the change you want to see"
We *can* cocreate a more equitable world, online and irl. 💪🏽
So many people will just open their 3rd party app one day and it won't work. They'll see what happened and then just never come back. Reddit replaced digg because of all of us... we will simply go elsewhere.
Yep. I came from the mass Digg exodus and I'll just not come back. It's been a good long run but it will honestly be for the good. I waste so damn much time on this site I'm honestly welcoming it a bit.
Right? Let's make sure that reddit understand their mistake and find somewhere else to read it
13 year user here, will be gone after the shutdown. Not sure how that makes me feel?
Vindicated maybe? Even good apples fall when they shake the tree. Everyone will find each other elsewhere
Are we finally going back to old school BBS forums with this change? If so I'm all here for it! It's not that I support Reddit's greed, I just missed the times when the internet felt like a small space for your niche hobbies.
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Thank you, I had no idea of Lemmy. At least I have a place to head to while this slow car crash happens.
Expansion + fragmentation and consolidation. We've done it before. It seems cyclical. From BBSes to Fidonet to AOL to Usenet to internet forums to link aggregators to what Reddit's become (originally starting as a link aggregator). We've definitely gone through a few rounds of expansion of places for discussion then consolidation of large numbers of topics into fewer locations. Don't get me wrong, I've enjoyed all of those various eras, having been through them all, but I do appreciate the simplicity of being able to use Reddit for most of my forum discussions while being able to discover new things on the regular that I wouldn't if information were scattered again like it was in the internet forums era.
If they know how long the shutdown is gonna last, they can have an idea of how much it's gonna backfire on them. However, if the shutdown lasts indefinitely...
Reddit would need to see a serious drop in ad revenue for this protest to even do anything and that'll likely take longer than 2 days. On top of that we also need as many people as possible to stop using the site completely - Large subs shutting down won't mean shit if people carry on using Reddit anyway.
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Probably multi-stage. 3rd part app death will be one but there's also also the old.reddit.com potential death that will push additional people off. From there, I suppose it depends on how it goes with moderation. Poor moderation could definitely drive more people away. Not sure if it would be a mass exodus or more a gradual migration.
The subreddit blackout over Covid misinformation was effective, but it was for a whole week. I do think a week is much better, because then you get the attention of nearly everyone, even those people who only login every few days.
Honestly, it could be good for everyone as well. A couple of days of just no reddit might help a lot who are addicted to it stop using it.
We this sucks and I will miss reddit, at least I will get hours and hours back.
The admins have the control over the site. They can overrule that and force new mods in key subreddits, as they have done before with Kotaku in Action. https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/13/17568598/reddit-employee-gamergate-forum-kotaku-in-action-creator
Until boost returns I will not
Should the subreddits remain shut down until Reddit also becomes federated?
Hell no. Not yet. Honestly, 2 days will be hard for me, but I will do it in the name of solidarity. Lets see where that gets us first. They aren't as deaf as other sites, lets give em a chance...
Redditors when they don't like what a private company does to a service they own.
I agree
Agreed. From RIF
No problem. Bye, Reddit, until further notice
always nice to see community band together against a common foe lol