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Pop!_OS officially supports Lemmy as Reddit alternative (www.reddit.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by mmstick@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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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.

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[-] gravalicious@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

YOU WON'T TRICK ME INTO CLICKING A REDDIT LINK

[-] mmstick@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

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

[-] gravalicious@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Lol, thanks mate.

[-] unix_joe@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

Cool, subscribed.

[-] Valon_Blue@sh.itjust.works 1 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.

[-] OneDimensionPrinter@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

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.)

[-] Zoness@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

This is great to hear!

[-] Goose@feddit.uk 0 points 1 year ago

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/pop_os@lemmy.world - am I being an idiot?

[-] mmstick@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I get the same issue when trying to access the community from there. https://lemmy.ml/c/pop_os@lemmy.world works fine though. And https://beehaw.org/c/pop_os@lemmy.world 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.

[-] mochi@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

beehaw has defederated lemmy.world.

[-] albsen@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

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

[-] silent_clash@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

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