A fellow mod informed me that about it as I was laying in bed. Reddit sent a message to the mod team and after 1 hour demoded me. I didn’t even had time to see it, never-mind respond to it.
Looks like we rattled reddit enough to start shooting. There goes all that fancy talk about our protest not affecting them much.
Just FYI for now. It’s late here so I’ll see how we proceed tomorrow.
Well here I am, screw Reddit. Didn’t much like supporting the corporate greed and corruption anyway.
That pinned New Users Guide is a big help. Was a bit confused at first, but I think I get the instance and location thing now. It’s actually pretty ingenious. Don’t know if any of you are old enough to remember the BBS days when a bunch of them interconnected on FidoNet, reminds me of that. Very cool, like an old idea anew.
This instance (lemmy.dbzer0.com) seems to be in Germany and I’m in the USA so it can get pretty laggy on me. Need to find a USA instance. I tried signing up for lemmy.one and beehaw.org which are USA, but they have a vetting process where I had to fill in some questions and wait for a reply. That’s kind of weird. Those are good ones right, non toxic? This one let me sign up instantly so in any case it should do for now, or later if not’s too slow for me.
Lemmy.one seems very non toxic.
I just got my authorization for lemmy.one. It’s close to me so it’s super fast, was having real problems with the local instance here, not the operator’s fault, just my relative location. Anyway I’m all set to browse the fediverse with Lemmy, reminds me of the old days of the internet, before everything was monetized. Reddit did me a favor by blowing me out.
Same for Beehaw. They’re working really hard to keep everything kind, to the point they defederated with communities with open sign ups that were sending lots of low-effort/mean/troll comments.
Just run your own instance. If you can run a Plex server, you might have enough technical chop to run Lemmy in a spare computer somewhere in your closet.
I’m on beehaw and they’re great, the team is truly worried with the community and maintaining a non toxic place. They defederated with lemmy.world because of it, and they upset a few people, so keep that in mind (I just have a second account to stay around with the chill comunnitymies in .world)
I also didn’t gey any message letting me know I got in, so just try to log in after a few days and see if it goes through.