Pop!_OS officially supports Lemmy as Reddit alternative
The official community is hosted at !pop_os@lemmy.world
On June 12th, we joined the Reddit Blackout to protest against the loss of third party clients that will happen on July 1st with Reddit's API pricing changes. There is open source software which relies on these APIs to function, as well as various third party clients that improve accessibility and UX over Reddit's desktop and official mobile app. Some of them have better moderation tools to make managing a subreddit easier.
Many rely on our extensive history of support requests and answers on the platform for troubleshooting day to day issues on Linux and Pop!_OS, so we are going back to a public status. A better way to protest may be for users to migrate towards open source decentralized alternatives.
So during that downtime, we've started a community on an open source Reddit alternative, Lemmy, which also happens to be written in Rust. Those who'd like to be on an open platform can join us here as an alternative to Reddit.
YOU WON'T TRICK ME INTO CLICKING A REDDIT LINK
I quoted the contents of the Reddit post here so you don't have to.
Cool, subscribed.
If you want to follow from within your instance search for this: !pop_os@lemmy.world the ! Is important.
It would be cool if the "! links" linked to the community in comments. Maybe someone in the community could code that ?
The man, the myth, the legend! Seeing you here makes me feel happy.
Happy to hear it
That's cool. I can't seem to access it from this instance I'm on though? We are federated with lemmy.world.
So I tried https://feddit.uk/c/pop_os@lemmy.world - am I being an idiot?
I think you need to search for the community first on your instance to start the sync. So just paste the link into the search field (the search will probably come up empty), wait for a few seconds and then try to load the community.
It works from over here on kbin.social
I get the same issue when trying to access the community from there. https://lemmy.ml/c/pop_os@lemmy.world works fine though. And https://beehaw.org/c/pop_os@lemmy.world only synced the first few posts before they blocked it. If they haven't blocked lemmy.world, then perhaps their server hasn't synced with it in a while.
beehaw has defederated lemmy.world.
I discovered that if the subreddit hasn’t been accessed from your instance before, then you have to copy and paste the link from the original instance into the search bar, then it’ll start showing that community
Here are a few links to the community (thanks System76!). Community links on Lemmy haven't been streamlined yet
This is great to hear!
Oh my god oh my god oh ky god auto tiling by default? Ooooooh cooool. I'm so in. Gone are the days of endlessly experimenting with xmonad and never truly being happy with the results. (It's been a while though.)
Glad that you're going this route, just sub'd.
I may not have enjoyed using their distro, but I'm really happy to see this. They're really popular in the desktop Linux market and it may help to get more users over here in the Fediverse.