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.
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…