I’m a mod of a moderately sized subreddit (~15k) with lots of people who use Reddit only to interact with that community. We’ve been trying to disseminate information about our official Lemmy, Kbin and Raddle alternatives, but adoption has been slow to nonexistent. So I’m probably going to stick around in both, if for no other reason that to moderate said subreddit.
They explicitly told me in Matrix to not write that, so I just wrote two paragraphs summarizing the two posts they linked in the application guide.
None of the Mod posts regarding the Blackout mentioned Lemmy as far as I‘m aware
Rumor has it they banned a lot of mods and communities for encouraging exactly that to their subscribers, so it was considered quite risky.
Hm, that’s definitely not true. Just ask the admins to remove that user and let you try again.
I know of several different groups working on this, from the main developers of Lemmy to people hacking together browser plugins to make this possible already now (i.e. interacting directly with different instances using your account from another instance). I think we will start seeing some of the first of these released in the coming week or two.
My presumption was that with over 200 instances, maybe over 1000 in the near future, all the old data should be collectable in theory without loss. But you’re right, there’s no guarantee of this.
Oh lawd, I bet there will be a dozen instances for different political inclinations that all have each other blocked lmao
All the users and communities registered there will cease being able to connect to the rest of the network, but the data should still be cached on all the other servers.
Do as you please. It’s not like Reddit had any etiquette for crossposting, except for subreddit-specific rules.
I finally got Mlem to work after fighting the iOS updater all night, and it’s honestly much nicer to use than the web interface. It feels extremely reminiscent of Apollo for Reddit.
Yeah, unfortunately the .ml in the TLD of the biggest Lemmy instance is not at all coincidental. On the other hand, it seems that a huge proportion of migrant Redditors have a preference for neutral servers with more Libertarian approaches to administration like Beehaw. At least Lemmy itself is FOSS.
I oppose dehumanization in all its forms, and despite being Ukrainian I have always been mindful of the humanity in this war.
With that said, the overwhelming majority of the “orc” comments that I’ve seen are directed not towards Russian civilians, but towards Russian combatants. Indeed, on that note Russians have been calling Ukrainians much worse things from day 1 on Russian social media, so if anyone is being dehumanized (and this is coming someone who reads Russian better than Ukrainian) I’d say it’s more so Ukrainians by the Russian side, but I digress.
Name calling aside, I think it’s incredibly dishonest to term the rooting and supporting for Ukraine as “jingoism” when that word describes what has been happening in Russian society for the past year far more appropriately. The American invasion of Iraq was bad and jingoist rhetoric was used to justify it, yes, but the exact same has been happening in Russia to a far more extreme degree during this war.
How can you ignore that while denouncing mere name-calling on social media and passive support in the war from the side of the West?
“Common narrative” in regards to the war in general or Bakhmut specifically? Because @FaceDeer@lemmy.ml sure as hell is right about the former…
How do you know?
No, it wouldn’t. The Beehaw server is located in the United States. External communities aren’t retrieved via your machine, but via their server.