This is fantastic. I hope the fediverse instances can keep up with the load. lemmy.dbzer0.com is struggling right now and instances are not syncing with each other.
I understand the importance of maintaining history, but I'm curious about what historical info is there that you think is worth saving? News about sites/trackers will be available elsewhere. We'd just be losing the Reddit-local community comments.
In my opinion, the main thing that would be useful would be bringing info over from the wiki, or stuff that should have been on it. Guides and such.
Unfortunately the info would need to be migrated manually right now. There's a decent number of posts across the fediverse right now looking for people to make a bot or script to copy content from reddit over to the fediverse. Apparently no suitable tools exist for automating it yet, and I'd imagine the Reddit API changes are just going to complicate efforts as the tool would probably need to use web scraping rather than the API.
Hi all, just came over from Reddit. Nice to see that the community is continuing :) Feels like the piracy scene has been hit a few times now with Rarbg finishing and the API changes, I will carry my duty and try to share the word where the community is at! Perhaps this is just a good fresh start and people like oldfart will find a new better platform to share their treasures on. :)
The lemmy developers seem to be tankies, not neo-nazis. But the software is FOSS neutral from such politics, so anyone can fork and continue improving it. Also this is an anarchist-flavored instance.
To add to this, in case people didn't know, Lemmy isn't centralized.
While there are Lemmy instances that are pro-CCP/STALIN/DRK, there are also instances that have entirely different values, from wholesome (Beehaw) to unregulated (Lemmy.world), and too many others to list (and I'm not really that well versed in them all either, tbh).
Point being, this community has absolutely nothing to do with Tankies aside from there being some Tankies heavily involved in creating the software backend for Lemmy to exist in the first place. (Or so I've heard; I haven't personally looked into this since I don't really care what they're doing over there since it has nothing to do with me or my use of Lemmy.)
You're worried about supporting communists/nazi's, but supporting reddit that is largely funded by a Chinese Conglomerate and has a CEO that used to moderate a borderline child porn sub wasn't a problem? Kind of an arbitrary line to draw, don't you think?
Yes, it's unpleasant. Nevertheless, Reddit allows writing about the Uyghur genocide and dropped a nuclear bomb on Russian disinformation when it banned Russian domains
CEO that used to moderate a borderline child porn sub wasn’t a problem
I didn't know about it until this API crisis
Realistically, all large social networks have disgusting practices. But when I use open source software, I don't want to have any ties to Nazis and communists
when I use open source software, I don’t want to have any ties to Nazis and communists
Open source means it's open for everyone to use and work on. Everyone is an all inclusive term. People with different views than you can also know how to code and develop. There are people contributing to Lemmy of multiple races, backgrounds, and political beliefs.
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