We experienced the #RedditBlackOut and we want to give the power back to the users.
We just granted €3000 to @LemmyDev and €333 to @ernest to support the new #threadiverse who already has hundreds of "subs" and thousands of users.
This grant is part of our engagement with the @copiepublique initiative that gathers companies who pledged to share profits to grant #FLOSS and #digitalCommons.
We are going 9 days strong on the #redditblackout glad there are people still doing this. IT should send a message to the world that the little people have a voice. of course u/spez isn't listening thats why people are dumping reddit in droves! Reddit will die in a fire and i'm here for it! delted my 6 year old account on the 13th and i'm not going back. Period!
Steve Huffman: "Apollo threatened us, said they'll 'make it easy' if Reddit gave them $10 million. This guy behind the scenes is coercing us. He's threatening us."
Luckily, Apollo developer Christian Selig had proof that Huffman lied.
While the media coverage (and many written subreddit positions) focus on the API changes, it's the justified anger at Huffman's dishonesty that fuels many of the redditor protests.
I'm planning to self-host a Reddit like instance for myself, but I'm between Lemmy and kbin . Essentially I want to host my own data, and jump into discussions from other communities.
With a limited search results, people praise for #kbin, and bash #lemmy developers about their world and political views, however Lemmy is written with #rust, and Kbin with #php .
I just want to migrate to what people will be using to.
According to users on #lemmy#reddit is now restoring users deleted and edited comments. We expected this but what I didn't expect was to find an FAQ from Reddit stating that they cannot ever restore deleted comments.
Thinking through the Reddit crisis, I'd recommend that @ernest and @dessalines contact the creators of the most popular reddit clients and work together to piece a bridge that would take the calls that were made to #reddit and translate them into API calls that would go to #lemmy and #kbin
Having those clients run in the same way against the #fediverse equivalents would reduce friction for end-users and potentially help a lot of moderators who rely on them.
Oh, wow. A subset of Reddit users are no longer satisfied with just a blackout, and now they want to go scorched-earth: "Reddit is a lost cause. It's time to raze it." #Reddit#RedditBlackout#Razit
A quite convincing one is that Reddit is trying to become the western TikTok. TikTok is a tad suspicious and in danger of being restricted, so Reddit may be seeing a business opportunity.
Also Reddit in its current state is not well monetizable, and so may not be worth very much to Reddit Inc.
This means the blackout may fail, as the company may not care very much about discussion.
One of the best things about #Reddit was the vaste amount of human knowledge, unfiltered opinions and shared experiences. A huge part of Reddit has already been archived at the Internet Archive. If you miss the answers but don't want to go back you can find many archived subs by just replacing the name in this URL:
I'm several layers of distraction away from what I was intending to do, but I just wanna mention that https://tildes.net/ exists as a potential Reddit alternative. Haven't looked at it very long myself but I wanna check it out later. #redditblackout
Not for nothing, but @minnieo is doing some AMAZING digital organizing for the #RedditBlackout and the #RedditMigration and anyone who cares about either, or the Fediverse writ large, should follow and learn from her.