Agreed, it feels like it’s a strong signal they don’t take privacy seriously.
I think Qwant does too, right?
Wow, I am surprised they would go this far if I’m honest. Are they actively trying to piss off literally everyone?
From the Lemmy Github:
I’m a opensuse tumbleweed user on my desktop and laptop. I also have an ubuntu home server.
I really like tumbleweed, but I have been thinking of switching to an immutable distro like guix or nix. I’ve tried guix several times and found it pretty good, but never stick with it due to its lack of KDE plasma support. Maybe I should give nix a try.
To some degree, you’re right, reddit probably won’t change regardless of what mods do. If they really are feeling the blackout, as you’d say they’ll probably just replace the moderators and open the community back up, rather than reverse their decision.
However, I feel like it’s reddit doing the disservice to their users, not mods who are taking action by protesting. Ultimately, and if reddit do replace the mods and try and continue as normal, then it sends a stronger message to the community that reddit doesn’t care about or respect them and it’s not a not a good place to continue being.
In the dynamic between reddit the company running the site and the users, there is limited power users have against reddit which holds a lot of power, but protesting like what’s happening now one of the main tools users have.
Another good link to follow the blackout is: https://reddark.untone.uk/
I used to pretty much just lurk when I used reddit, I’d maybe post a comment every few months, but really I’d just lurk. I’ve easily past the number of posts and comments I ever made to reddit during the many years of using it daily. Initially I wanted to make an effort for Lemmy to succeed, obviously it has less people so as your post is suggesting, I was trying to do my part. I found I really enjoy posting here though, the community is really great.
Really appreciate these links! I’ve been curious to see what he’s been saying but didn’t want to give them any traffic.
Nothing. I don’t like how they treat their users and I dont trust them. It’s not like they were great and this came from nowhere. Reddit has been getting progressively worse for a long time.
fortunately, we have alternatives and don’t need reddit.
Lemmy calls them “communities” but since Lemmy federates over ActivityPub which can have lots of different implementations and Lemmy can speak to them, they can have different names. For example there is kbin which calls them “magazines”, another implementation might call them something else.
There are two mobile apps, one for Android and one for iOS. Check here: https://join-lemmy.org/apps/
Just looked it up since I was sure I had read they had their own. On their wikipedia article it says:
so I guess it’s both bing and their own thing.