Most people here are probably already aware of the situation on Reddit. This is a thread to discuss it here.

  • FiFoFree@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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.

  • Ced ᴸᵉᵈ@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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.

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    1 year ago

    Hi, everyone! I’ve really missed r/flashlight. This does feel something like home, though. Glad to be here!

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        1 year ago

        The sub hasn’t been burned down. It’s engaging in the extended protest. There’s a difference.

        • HenryWinklersWinky@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          … 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.

  • friftar@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Long time user of the sub, checking in on the new hot platform as promised in my last post there.

    Not sure I quite understand the whole instances stuff yet, but it seems useable enough for my needs.

    • Zak@lemmy.worldOPM
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      1 year ago

      Looks like you have the basics figured out.

      For those who are new to federation and want to see what it looks like, note that friftar’s account is from feddit.de while this community is from lemmy.world.

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        1 year ago

        Just reading the descriptions I found was really confusing, but actually seeing and playing around with it, it’s decently intuitive.

        Also, it’s great to see some of the old names on here already! Hoping some more of the legends move over instead of just leaving the community entirely.

      • dmenezes@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        For those who are new to federation and want to see what it looks like, note that friftar’s account is from feddit.de while this community is from lemmy.world.

        From what I’ve seen so far (less than 15mins here yet :-)) it looks like old FIDONet did in the 80s, but without the 9600 USRobotics modems exchanging bundles of messages all day :-)

        • Zak@lemmy.worldOPM
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          1 year ago

          I suspect you’re visiting feddit.de directly and then you can’t post because you don’t have an account there. If instead you visit this link to a community hosted there from the server you’re logged in to, you can post.

          There’s definitely some room for the software to improve its user experience surrounding that.

  • voodoo_three@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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!

    • Zak@lemmy.worldOPM
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      1 year ago

      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.

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        1 year ago

        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.

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    1 year ago

    It’s been 48hrs. Is r/flashlight coming back or has the mod team decided to make the blackout indefinite?

    • Zak@lemmy.worldOPM
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      1 year ago

      It’s reopened as restricted with a poll about what to do next.

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        1 year ago

        I think you might end up with an echo chamber over on Reddit, as people will likely stick to a single platform

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    1 year ago

    Checking in! I initially signed up for kbin and just got a lemmy account too. There’s very little, flashlight related going on at kbin at the minute. I know the site’s struggling with traffic. The UI seems odd.

    First impressions here it feels more like home!

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      First impressions here it feels more like home!

      Ditto, exactly my impression so far. Perhaps when r/flashlight comes back we can start to encourage people there to move to here massively and just tell Reddit to go eff itself in the lake…

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    1 year ago

    Oh man! I was hoping this community would come over! Glad to have the flashlight community here!

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    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%.

    • Zak@lemmy.worldOPM
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      1 year ago

      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.

      • dmenezes@lemmy.world
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        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.