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.

  • laurentOPMEnglish
    2·
    1 year 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·
      1 year 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