Most people here are probably already aware of the situation on Reddit. This is a thread to discuss it here.
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New poll is up. I’m going to unsticky this thread tomorrow because I’d rather talk about flashlights than Reddit.
Personally, as much as I loved Reddit, I think there needs to be a move away from centralized platforms that can keep pulling this shit time after time. Hopefully there’s a way to ensure the contents of r/flashlight are archived for posterity, but I don’t think I’d be terribly inconvenienced if it was, for instance, permanently locked.
The community is the people, not the place, and I’m happy to be seeing familiar faces here already.
Has anyone tried archiving r/flashlight on archive.org yet?
Hi, everyone! I’ve really missed r/flashlight. This does feel something like home, though. Glad to be here!
IMO, it would be best to leave r/flashlight in restricted mode forever, so people can still see the useful info. Then officially announce the transfer to Lemmy (or kbin), and just rebuild the community.
At this point, completely opening r/flashlight again will make the community look weak, in the eyes of the R3ddit the company. In my honest opinion, of course.
I have now been on Lemmy for approximately 90 seconds! Layout feels an awful lot like Reddit, seems like it’ll be relatively easy to navigate. Are there apps that work well here, or is web-based the best way to go? I thought about downloading the Mastodon app and trying to access this community from there, but I honestly don’t have a solid understanding of the entire decentralized Fediverse thing.
Either way, thanks for creating a backup community Zak!
There’s Mlem (iOS) and Jerboa (Android), but they’re not very mature and the web interface seems like the way to go right now.
Appreciate it. I just got Mlem from TestFlight, will check it out in a bit. One of the most recent patch notes seems to imply that they hope they fixed the issue of accounts being deleted between logins, so I might hold off for juuuust a little bit.
for iOS, Mlem. Its very beta though
Nabbed it through TestFlight, will take a look at it later. Thanks!
Just a note of support from the soon to be ex mod of r/edc!
Welcome. I should probably put /c/edc@sopuli.xyz in the sidebar to encourage some intermingling.
Are you one of the ones responsible for burning that sub down?
The sub hasn’t been burned down. It’s engaging in the extended protest. There’s a difference.
… basically the same thing at this point. Especially since you pretty much threw up the “taking my toys and going home” approach. Hopefully your next mods will be more competent and logical.
It’s been 48hrs. Is r/flashlight coming back or has the mod team decided to make the blackout indefinite?
It’s reopened as restricted with a poll about what to do next.
I think you might end up with an echo chamber over on Reddit, as people will likely stick to a single platform
Just got signed up.
Nice, I was waiting for some activity here!
I’m actually impressed with Reddit’s management stupidity of not only shooting itself in the foot with that idiotic API fees thing, but then to actually sawing off the whole foot by sticking to it. I just posted a comment to that effect on an r/AskReddit topic to that effect: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1470boa/comment/jo2y3qm
I guess the so-called “management” doesn’t care because it doesn’t see losing users and communities as a problem: as long as they can make some profit in the short run, the long run be damned – and even if they end up losing money in the short run too, the worst that can happen to said “management” is pulling the rip cord on their golden parachutes and going on to some other promising company to eff it up like they’re doing with Reddit, rinse and repeat… “other people’s money” (and interests) and all that… :-(
Thanks again @Zak for prodding us to move to Lemmy with your decision to black out r/flashlight and your awesome blog post – initially I was pissed at the blackout, but now I support you 100%.
I strongly suspect Reddit shareholders want to IPO and cash out with no regard for what happens to the company afterward. That means pumping up metrics like app installs and ad impressions without regard to the long-term impact. They probably underestimated the speed and severity of the backlash.
Best way to punish these creeps is to shove their precious IPO to the curb – hit 'em where it hurts. I for one haven’t logged into Reddit since the SNAFU began, between IRC and BLF and Lemmy (in that order) I have all the fun I need, and Reddit be damned.
'Sup Lemmys. Just made an account here.
I actually hated the move from digg to reddit, mostly because I thought digg having post previews was so much better for readability and avoiding clickbait than reddit. But now Lemmy has them!
The interface is a bit of getting used to, but I’m already noticing lots of nice features.
Like, did you know you don’t need a multi-billion dollar company in order to make a functional mobile site? Crazy!
Good stuff
I appreciate your work getting the community over to Lemmy!
💯 Lemmy is 🔥. People need a place to go, and with subreddits closing down, this is the perfect time and place for folks to express themselves and have fun.
@Zak, agree with above. Thanks for being our awesome mod no matter what platform that may mean.
Is there any plan to port some information over such as popular emitters / buying guides? Also, is it possible to have it quickly accessible in the sidebar (kind of mimicking the ‘About’ section of our Reddit?) it looks like posts can be favourited/saved. I’m still learning the ropes here so apologies if I’m missing it.
Is there any plan to port some information over such as popular emitters / buying guides?
Probably. One thing Lemmy doesn’t have is a wiki, but some of those things work as regular posts.
There’s a sidebar and it works much like it does on old.reddit.
The whole API thing is a non-issue to me personally other than the effect on moderators because I never used the apps. Tried Reddit’s app once and found it pretty basic, almost crude, so stayed on the PC Browser side of Reddit.
I mainly use old.reddit.com on a PC, but this decision tells me that Reddit takes its users for granted, especially the volunteer moderators and content creators who actually make the site valuable enough to attract other visitors. Building communities on top of somebody else’s for-profit walled garden was probably always a mistake.
Building communities on top of somebody else’s for-profit walled garden was probably always a mistake.
This right here.
