Is this a joke?

Good news! It works! You can indeed use old backups, and it (so far) works without issue

And it is glorious!

Everything is gorgeous :)

It’s like coming home after a long trip.

I have found a bug though. Logging in to sh.itjust.works seems to cause crashes that other instances don’t (so far). Lemmy.world, ttrpg.network, and sopuli.xyz haven’t crashed at all so far. Haven’t tested any others yet since I want to take a bit to just enjoy the app.

Seriously, Dawson, thank you for this :)

Edit: found a very minor thing in the comment markdown menu. The >!spoiler!< markdown on lemmy is different than reddit uses. The >! Doesn’t work here.

Spoiler is weird on lemmy. It’s

::: spoiler

Text

:::

Supposedly. However, it doesn’t actually work at all in most apps.

The reddit >! Works in sync, but not elsewhere.

I dunno, I was up and running in five minutes. You pick an instance, you sign up, you verify the email, and you’re good to go. What server doesn’t matter much, barring it closing unexpectedly and without warning. There’s not enough users to need more than a handful.

Redundancy is never a bad thing

Yeah, I just got one of those too lol.

I’m not seeing a problem with that statement

This is the perfect chance to have practiced your chocolate skills by dipping the cookies in chocolate.

You can, it’ll just be a struggle.

If you stand firm, you can get enough people to recognize that there are viable alternatives, and once you hit a decent number of friends and family, it takes over on its own.

Just a curious passerby, but how hard is it to set up an instance? Is it “switching to Linux mint” easy, more “arch goes brrrr” difficult, or “keep away before you break everything” difficult?

“Hi, I’m sorry, but we charge an extra api fee for reddit employees”

“You have an api for a coffee shop”

“Yeah, its the Asshole Prevention Insurance, since the ceo is a giant, gaping asshole that likes to spew his filth all over things, and we want insurance that nobody from there does the same thing.”

Oh, you just don’t know the right crazy people.

A quote from someone I know irl, “he’s lucky I don’t live there. I would find him and curb stomp his albino hamster looking ass”.

But even the craziest people I know haven’t suggested that kind of thing about employees.

He’s the one that has to worry about a project mayhem castration, not the employees lol.

Definitely interested, if beehaw is willing to open a new community while also adjusting to the influx.

Shit, I’ll moderate it if it will help it happen. I’m still not up to speed with lemmy, but the r/cptsd community is too damn important to not migrate (I lurked there, but it has pulled me through some very bad times)

If beehaw isn’t ready for new communities yet, we can find a spot somewhere, I’m sure. Or start using the one on lemmy.ml (or wherever it is)

I dunno, the way they’ve (board members, ceo, admins involved in trying to spin things, etc) been acting, it’s pretty obvious they don’t want the engaged, active users back. They want to turn it into an ad server and user tracking hub like facebook.

Maybe if they can spez, build a new board of directors, and walk back everything they’ve done totally, I might be willing to use it passively but directly (as in reading things there via my app of choice, but not interacting) rather than only indirectly via search results when the only hits are there.

That ain’t gonna happen. If they don’t do that, my last act will be to find replacement mods for the places I’m responsible for, and then I’m gone totally. I’d have done it already, but I’d have to use reddit to recruit anyone at all, and I’m not willing to do that until the protest is over.

Hell, I’ve thought about just doing enough mod actions that admins would have to break their own rules to oust me, and leaving them locked. But I don’t like shitting on communities of people just because the site has gone to shit.

Yay! A ratty!

And a particularly adorable one at that :)

Yup, we’re set up over at https://sopuli.xyz/c/edc

It’s getting some okay activity so far :)

Reddit still pulls things to r/all, even if what’s there is some abandoned sub. It’s why some subs went restricted instead of private, so they can make posts about the protest and the issue behind it that will still be surfaced.

A lot of newer users don’t bother going past r/all, so there’s going to be some activity constantly since not everyone knows what’s going on.

Hell, I made three posts about it all on r/edc, and I’m still getting people asking why they can’t post. I’m not moderating during the two day blackout at all, but I get the notifications.

Which is fine. The protest has never been about getting people to stop using reddit. It’s about the moderators standing up and making the point that it’s the users and mods that made reddit worth anything to begin with. And it was. Reddit side? The admins that handled day to day activity helped a ton when they could, but reddit beyond that was just servers and software. Without content, that’s useless.

How does one use this?