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In that case, yodspeed my dude
*sigh* Do I have to go abandon Fedora now too? I really hope they don’t pull a CentOS on that one
Yeah I originally created an account at beehaw.org before coming over to lemmy.world. The main reason I moved was because I wasn’t a fan of the fact I couldn’t freely create new communities over there (and I don’t think you can create communities on other instances?), but also just ~vibes~.
To be fair, this is actually kinda great to see - it’s one of the strengths of this federated system. The folks that run these instances are being pretty generous already to just let us talk and share whatever the heck we want, and it’s perfectly reasonable for a host to want to be selective about who they let use their resources.
A lot of sudreddits are vowing to go dark indefinitely in response to this it looks like. Many were already, but the official position on /r/ModCoord is an indefinite blackout for all but critically important subs.
I’ve also found this to be true with Julia devs
Source: am Julia dev
I’ve made 4runner@lemmy.world and tundra@lemmy.world if either of those are vehicles you drive!
A year ago, I viewed the Fediverse as an unnecessary, complicated framework created by a handful of well-intentioned individuals as a solution to a problem that wasn’t really there.
Today, I view it as a necessity.
This past year has been a hard lesson for me to stop placing trust in massive, centralized web services like Twitter and Reddit and to start federating more of my online activity. There’s going to be growing pains, but Lemmy has been pretty good so far and it’s definitely going to be worth it in the end.
I’ve honestly been pleasantly surprised so far.
Like, the communities over here are clearly tiny compared to the ones we’ve been used to over on Reddit, but they’re also large enough that they have enough interesting content to keep you browsing. In some ways, the environment here feels a bit more welcoming right now than a lot of Reddit due to there being a lot of pretty high-quality content from folks that clearly want this place to succeed.
That said, there’s still some growing pains. Some of the instances are pretty sluggish, there are bugs that need to be worked out (this isn’t to knock on the devs - I’m thankful this works at all!), and the number of niche communities is still vanishingly small.
Also /r/justrolledintotheshop
Ahhh, been trying to figure this out all day! Thanks for this
/r/fountainpens was one of the best! That said, I’ve been impressed with how active !fountainpens@sopuli.xyz has been so far
Between this and Twitter, I feel like “enshittification” is really the word of the past year. It’s incredible to watch these massive social networks completely turn on their users in the name of profit.
“I love all my children equally.” - Lucille Bluth
earlier that day…
“I don’t care for GOB.” - Lucille Bluth