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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.

  • Valon_Blue@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    151·
    2 years 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.

    • budaEnglish
      5·
      2 years ago

      It would be cool if the “! links” linked to the community in comments. Maybe someone in the community could code that ?

  • Octorine@midwest.socialEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

    The community link isn’t rendering correctly for me on Jerboa. The c/ isn’t attached so if you try to click on the link it tries to send an email.

    • becEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Workaround for now is tapping OP’s profile and then the link to the community in the info, in case anyone needs

        • albsen@lemmy.world
          3·
          2 years ago

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

            • albsen@lemmy.world
              1·
              2 years ago

              Thanks for sharing this link. That clarified it nicely. I think its a bit odd considering they literally stopped approving new accounts at the same time as defederating. But again, they seem to have a clear vision in mind for all of this and that’s fine. On the flip side, this disqualified them from any large support community that might want to migrate over as the reach is going to be limited. Mastodon has the same issue with people asking to defederate the main instance all the time…

            • xavier666@lemm.ee
              55·
              2 years 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.

              • 💡dim@lemmy.world
                2·
                2 years ago

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

              • CjkOvPDwQW@lemmy.pt
                21·
                2 years ago

                Lol they wanted to be one of the biggest instances, and now are complaining because they are big. Thats basically it

    • trillian@feddit.deEnglish
      2·
      2 years 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.

    • Hikiru@kbin.social
      32·
      2 years ago

      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

    • JohannesOliver@kbin.social
      1·
      2 years ago

      You are not. Generally a search in the Communities list would be enough to sync it up. Something odd on that instance.

  • OneDimensionPrinter@kbin.social
    4·
    2 years 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.)

      • humdrumgentleman@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 years ago

        I can’t speak to this on actual Pop_OS!, but I run an Arch-based system with GNOME Wayland and gnome-shell-extension-pop-shell-git installed from the AUR. It generally works well.

        That said, I’m transitioning to the Forge GNOME extension, as it provides similar functionality and doesn’t break for a few days following each major GNOME release.