postmarketOS has posted to their Mastodon: “So Reddit has sent us this nice “either you open up your subreddit or else” letter too. We will keep the subreddit private, let’s see what their “next steps” look like.”…
This is interesting because it’s not like a fan discussion sub or shitposting place, but an actual support platform and community resource for a third party open source project.
In the past these used to be on IRC which works much like the Fediverse does now. Servers were run by people and you made channels, like communities work on Lemmy now, and you signed up an account that was unique to the server too.
When problems happened with the people running that server that weren’t resolvable to both parties satisfaction the third party project and it’s community simply packed up and set up a new channel on another IRC server or started their own. The ability to do this with a Reddit-like discussion forum has been missing until now and that really excites me about the Fediverse’s potential.
spez definitely thought he can get away doing twitter bullshit, not knowing that the Reddit community is an entirely different beast
It seems the model where they encouraged volunteer moderators to be in charge of their own corner of reddit is coming back to haunt them. I assume this is why lemmy is so vibrant right now. Most internet users are sheep but the people fleeing reddit are the sub-section who actually do stuff on social media, not just consume. I wonder if reddit has realised this and is offering salaries to key people it has identified who were previously unpaid mods to stem the exodus.
I wonder if reddit has realised this and is offering salaries to key people it has identified who were previously unpaid mods to stem the exodus.
I doubt that. They seem to be stern on that downward spiral path.
Steve Huffman just wants to sell the company and get that sweet sweet golden parachute. He probably knows his time as CEO is not long.
Definitely a money grab by incompetent leadership and staff
Imagine if they now lose more money from having to pay mods compared to the gains from forcing people onto their own datamining app…
Wouldn’t that be a nice world to live in?
It makes sense for open source projects to favour open communication platforms, this is a positive move forward. I always think it’s a bit disappointing to see projects rely so heavily on things like Discord.
I keep meaning to give postmarketOS a try, development seems to be advancing quickly. Does anyone have any recommendations for supported hardware? Ideally something on cheaper side available used.
There is a dedicated sublemmy: [email protected] you might find something there
