Like many other subs (apparently over 5000) /r/joplinapp is going dark for the duration of the blackout.

The HN thread about it (or one of them): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36283249

One of the top comment puts it nicely:

The cheek of Reddits management is incredible. They’ve taken hundreds of millions in VC money hired an army of developers and yet delivered nothing to improve the user experience. All we seem to have have got out of is new reddit, a terrible, slow facebook like version of the site and an absolutely terrible mobile app. Where the hell did the money go? They use the time, labour, creativity, stories, humour, talent, wisdom, advice, skills of their users to try and make themselves billionaires whilst delivering a hopeless piece of tech in return, thats only been made useable by others people writing software to make the site bearable, Reddit Enhancement suite, Apollo, RIF. And yet here they are ready to make it rubbish again to get their filthy lucre. The more I think about it the more infuriated I get.

  • Daeraxa@lemmy.mlEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

    Fully support it, the other project I’m involved with (/r/pulsaredit) is going dark today as well.

  • JoplinEnjoyer@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    Please consider creating an official Joplin forum on an instance that doesn’t block other servers…

    I want to be able to talk about Joplin and share user tips but I literally can’t subscribe to this forum from my home server because Sopuli blocks it. 😢

    • laurentOPMEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      Hmm, yes that’s not great, we wouldn’t want the sub to be part of a gated community. Is it possible to move subs to different servers? Actually I’m not admin here, it’s @graphito@beehaw.org so it would be up to him

      • graphito@beehaw.orgEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        Responded to the user above. I understand that fediverse as a whole might look gated within itself but there’s a good reason for that. As of now, sadly, there’s no viable way to ensure quality of content without instance blocks

        The underlying protocol fediverse works on (activitypub) allows to move subs to different servers and I’d be happy to hand this community over to the instance of your choosing once the suitable candidate is found

  • laurentOPMEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    The blackout has ended without much results unfortunately. I agree with many comments that 2 days was insufficient, and now sticking to it for longer without any coordination is not useful. It should have been an indeterminate number of days until things change, but I doubt that’s going to happen now.

  • aboutscientific@beehaw.orgEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    It is great to see a community forming for Joplin on Lemmy, even if getting used to the fediverse, lemmy-style, can be rough around the edges. Still, I was able to use both Mastodon and Lemmy on another instance to follow the discussion - that’s truly nice!

  • OverzeetopEnglish
    11·
    2 years ago

    Well, I’m going to drop in a quick thank you to whomever mention this Lemmy instance in the r/Joplin sub. I wouldn’t have known this was here without it. 👍