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Pop!_OS officially supports Lemmy as Reddit alternative (www.reddit.com)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by mmstick@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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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.

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[–] gravalicious@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

YOU WON'T TRICK ME INTO CLICKING A REDDIT LINK

[–] mmstick@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

I quoted the contents of the Reddit post here so you don't have to.

[–] Valon_Blue@sh.itjust.works 3 points 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.

[–] unix_joe@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 years ago

Cool, subscribed.

[–] albsen@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

If you want to follow from within your instance search for this: !pop_os@lemmy.world the ! Is important.

[–] glibg10b@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Here are a few links to the community (thanks System76!). Community links on Lemmy haven't been streamlined yet

[–] OneDimensionPrinter@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.)

[–] heartlessevil@lemmy.one 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Last I checked their tiling WM features only work with X11 and not wayland

[–] humdrumgentleman@lemmy.world 1 points 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.

[–] Zoness@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

This is great to hear!

[–] Octorine@midwest.social 1 points 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.

[–] Goose@feddit.uk 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

That's cool. I can't seem to access it from this instance I'm on though? We are federated with lemmy.world.

So I tried https://feddit.uk/c/pop_os@lemmy.world - am I being an idiot?

[–] trillian@feddit.de 1 points 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 0 points 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

[–] mmstick@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I get the same issue when trying to access the community from there. https://lemmy.ml/c/pop_os@lemmy.world works fine though. And https://beehaw.org/c/pop_os@lemmy.world only synced the first few posts before they blocked it. If they haven't blocked lemmy.world, then perhaps their server hasn't synced with it in a while.

[–] mochi@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

beehaw has defederated lemmy.world.

[–] albsen@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] silent_clash@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Relevant defederation thread (their reasoning is kinda dumb imo)... https://beehaw.org/post/567170

[–] xavier666@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] dimspace@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] UrbenLegend@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I may be wrong, but wasn't it a pre-emptive measure because they were afraid of the open registrations on lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works?

[–] mochi@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

So basically, shit reasoning. They defederated because something might happen. A lot of things might happen. That's no reason to not do things in life.

[–] petriborg@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Happy to hear it

[–] kerneltux@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Glad that you're going this route, just sub'd.

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