That’s a recent quote from Reddit’s VP of community, Laura Nestler. Here’s more of it: This week, Reddit has been telling protesting moderators that if they keep their communities private, the company will take action against them. Any actions could happen as soon as this afternoon.

  • @Secret300
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    971 year ago

    I’ll never understand the people who are hell bent on trying to get reddit back. No matter what they won’t have a say in anything that happens, own anything, or even have a voice. I’m glad people are finally moving to an open source alternative.

    • @maple
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      171 year ago

      Like others, I’m also here from Reddit Is Fun. I was a reddit user for over 16 years (with a 15 year old account). For over half of that time, RIF was my exclusive conduit to Reddit as the desktop site became increasingly unusable. Now that RIF is gone, I won’t be going back.

    • @marswarrior
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      171 year ago

      I think only linux users moved over here… maybe

      • @EyesEyesBaby
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        271 year ago

        Windows user checks in. But I’ve got to admit, just as with Mastodon, the sign-up process (and finding communities across servers) might scare some people that are not as familiar with computers as most people that are on here now.

        • @luffyuk
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          141 year ago

          Honestly, signing up was a horrible experience.

          • JenneyFromDaBlock
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            131 year ago

            I signed up yesterday. It was not bad at all. No blood oaths or anything.

            • @Corran1138
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              31 year ago

              I had swear the First Ideal. The storm light is kinda fun though.

              • @bandit6789
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                21 year ago

                Journey before destination, Radiant.

              • @bandit6789
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                11 year ago

                Journey before destination, Radiant.

            • @666happyfuntime
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              31 year ago

              Yea… Username and email verification? Nothing wild

            • @Gushers
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              11 year ago

              It took me a few tries over multiple days to sign up successfully

          • @EyesEyesBaby
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            91 year ago

            I had to try 3 servers before I could sign up. Most people would’ve given up.

          • @sotolf
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            21 year ago

            Really? I don’t know, I just went to a page and wrote in my data, just like registering on any other page.

            • @InundatedWithDragons
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              21 year ago

              It took me about 12 attempts over a few weeks to sign up. It always got stuck at the “submit” and would just load endlessly, but never send the confirmation mail.

              Different computers and phones and browsers and happened across multiple servers. …I can totally see how that drives away a lot of people.

              • @ohlaph
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                11 year ago

                undefined> drives

                That was my experience today. Finally got through, but it took several attempts.

        • @marswarrior
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          71 year ago

          might scare some people that are not as familiar with computers

          That’s true.

      • @666happyfuntime
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        141 year ago

        I’m here from reddit is fun , I’m on Android and going to try on my windows PC in a minute

        • @maple
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          21 year ago

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        • unerds
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          21 year ago

          What app are you using?

          • @Treebeard189
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            21 year ago

            Connect for lemmy and honestly it actually seemed to be working faster than the mobile browser somehow. Not to mention looks better. Also downloaded Jerboa and will try that tomorrow, give each a full day.

            • unerds
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              61 year ago

              Ya that’s what I’m on and It’s been so buggy for me.

              Other apps are saying lemmy.world is using an outdated server version.

              ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

              Part of me acknowledges that buggy social media is good as I’ll be less inclined to use it

              • @we_were_never_here
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                41 year ago

                lemmy.world is outdated, they’re having issues updating. Next attempt should be at today (July 1st) 2000 CET I think

      • @Secret300
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        81 year ago

        I know a good bit of them did a while back. I think it was in r/opensource or r/linux but a couple years ago they posted about lemmy and I checked it out but I didn’t move over to lemmy. I love open source but it’s hard to move over to another platform when it doesn’t have a user base. Back then it didn’t but now I’m all in

        • @marswarrior
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          21 year ago

          I heard about it before as well, but didn’t dive in until a week ago. A lot of people are in the same boat :)

          • @rckclmbr
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            11 year ago

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            11 year ago

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            11 year ago

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          • @rckclmbr
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            11 year ago

            Yep checking in. It helps that I have the app on my phone, in the same spot I habitually opened reddit from. As long as there’s content to interact with I’ll probably keep coming. Although I do already miss the niche communities like /r/velo, /r/cycling, /r/bayarea but I get you can only get those when you have massive amounts of people

      • @moosh
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        71 year ago

        I’m here from Apollo. Currently testing out Memmy, Thunder, and now wefwef. Tried Mlem and Liftoff too but I don’t like them as much.

      • Flying Squid
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        61 year ago

        I’m using an iMac right now.

        • @marswarrior
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          31 year ago

          You got a terminal, I know macs have access to unix tools. It’s proprietary but still cool in my opinion.

          • Flying Squid
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            41 year ago

            Yep, and I used UNIX back in the day, so I’m pretty comfortable around a terminal. I don’t use it too often, but it’s nice to have available when I need it.

      • @Redditiscancer789
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        41 year ago

        Windows user here, most I dabbled in Linux was setting up Ubuntu on rasp pi.

        • @marswarrior
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          71 year ago

          You can install Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) and play with it while logged into your windows PC.

          When you install WSL 2, you download and enable a virtual machine platform feature in Windows, which includes the lightweight Linux kernel that is integrated with the WSL 2 environment. This allows you to run a full-fledged Linux distribution on your Windows system, enabling you to execute Linux commands and use Linux tools and utilities.

          https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install

    • @ABCDE
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      131 year ago

      Invested time… And this place is pretty far behind a usable replacement in terms of content alone.

      • @rckclmbr
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        281 year ago

        I was an early user of reddit, and it had a lot of the same problems this place had. There were no “smaller subreddits”, everything was small. But the quality of content was good, so I stuck around. It really takes a lot of effort to build a community, it doesn’t come for free. I hope you stick around and help 😀

    • @ABCDE
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      31 year ago

      Invested time… And this place is pretty far behind a usable replacement in terms of content alone.

    • @xT1TANx
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      21 year ago

      Dude I have communities I still want to be a part of there. It’s not easy to just walk away. I have now but when the NFL season starts it’s going to be hard to not go back unless there is a good alt here.

    • @ohlaph
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      21 year ago

      Long live OSS.