I think what's jarring is the contrast with how relatively nice everyone's being over here, while Reddit hasn't changed. I had a quick look back at some reopened subs but I don't have much of a desire to go back right now.
Also, this was never really about the APIs specifically for me, that brought it to a head, but really it's all about the way Reddit has been heading for the last few years. A lot of people who are back don't seem to appreciate that.
I'm finding it's much better to sort posts by "hot" than "Active", it seems to more heavily prioritise newer posts. I'd really like to make this my default but I can't work out how to do it - does anyone know if that's possible?
Believe it or not there was once a lot of good will towards Reddit.
The whole point is that you can't access them.
So I can still see beehaw communities here and comment on them but if I do they won't show up to beehaw users?
If that's the case then we really need some indication/warning sign that the instance is defederated, or else people will be talking into the void if they don't keep close track of which instances are/aren't defederated.
Apache OpenOffice hasn't had a major release since 2014 whereas LibreOffice, its de facto successor, is actively developed and modern.
Unfortunately OpenOffice still has name recognition which leads casual users to still download it as a replacement to commercial office suites, despite being very out of date. It's kind of become a bit of an embarrassment to open source software and really should be discontinued, but a small handful of developers insist on keeping it on life support.
See this open letter https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2020/10/12/open-letter-to-apache-openoffice/
Ah, I'd been staring at that page for ages and missed it. Thank you.
If they have zero users, they’ll eventually stop the Fedora project
That would be a very sad loss.
I'm planning that I would only go there for pragmatic reasons - i.e. if I had a specific question that could only be answered by a specific sub. I'm not going to go there for fun any more (because it isn't).
Nope you can't access them to discourage people from using Reddit, that's the protest.
Fewer than I thought though, I would have thought the whole thing would have evaporated by now.
As a power user, who uses spreadsheets every day professionally, OnlyOffice isn't full-featured enough for my needs. LibreOffice is the only free software that's adequate for my job.
That's because America has woken up. Given that the blackout was planned for 2 days I'm actually quite encouraged that there are still 6500 after then. Even many of the ones that have opened have opened pending further discussion on the next steps. I'm not optimistic about the overall outcome for Reddit, but the more people that can be driven to alternatives the better.
As a Dvorak user, Dvorak is pretty terrible for single-finger typing since the focus is on hand-alternation. If I had the choice I'd probably choose this.
There have been layouts developed for single or limited-finger use and I think it's a shame they never caught on.
Try not to believe everything you read by random people online, Red Hat pays people to work on Fedora, you have no idea what you're talking about.
First of all you've swallowed the myth that Fedora users are beta testing for Enterprise software. That said discouraging people from voluntarily beta testing is bad for the community and fundamentally against the spirit of open source.
As a long-time Fedora user I think Red Hat's backing is good for Fedora because it means they have a solid source of funding. Apart from the resources that gives them, that way they can be entirely user-centric and not be tempted to sell user data, run ads or anything else against the users' interests.
There's a lot of hearsay going on around Red Hat at the moment, some of it has grains of truth, some of it has been distorted beyond fact, I'm sorry that you're a victim of it.
You haven't even made a case to rest.
As I've said above, it's not OpenOffice you want, it's LibreOffice, please don't download OpenOffice. https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2020/10/12/open-letter-to-apache-openoffice/
Not how open source works, you don't get to choose who benefits from it, it's for anyone who wants to use it. Ubuntu is downstream of Debian is it not?
Remember what I said about hearsay? Everything in Fedora is FOSS, everything in RHEL is also FOSS (because it's in CentOS Stream). All the code is released, not behind a "paywall". All that Red Hat have done is make it more difficult for companies to sell a 1:1 "bug for bug compatible" RHEL clone - those are the "free loaders" being spoken of and who they're targeting, not the Linux community, it's people like Oracle (who incidentally are also the ones fanning the flames of this drama).
I'm no fan of Canonical, but even with your description you're really sensationalising things there as well. The point is by supporting Debian you're inadvertently supporting Canonical - I don't think that's a problem myself but it seems you have double standards.
Interface is better than "new" Reddit, not as good as old Reddit + RES.
Also: if I click on a link on another instance (for example https://lemmy.ml/c/asklemmy when I'm signed in on lemmy.world), I'm not signed in to lemmy.ml so I have to manually search for it in lemmy.world to post there - is there a common solution to that?
I presume they could but then those subs would be unmoderated which would be a huge legal risk.
I know the lemmygrad.ml instance claims to be Marxist but I don't think they're generally taken that seriously (and not to be confused with lemmy.ml) - is that what you're confusing? Apart from that, the federal nature of Lemmy means it doesn't really matter what the creator's political beliefs are.
It happens to me with books, and also equally often with podcasts.
My theory is it happens when something else has (often subconsciously) hijacked the language processing part of my brain. E.g. if I'm reading and there's another conversation going on in the background that I'm slightly interested in. (The reason I mentioned podcasts is because this revelation happened to me when I discovered that I can do a sudoku puzzle while listening to a podcast but not a crossword.)
In my mind, it only needs to be a fraction of the size of Reddit to be potentially successful. I've been using online forums since the 90s, back in the day there were some forums with great long-lasting communities that had only a couple of dozen regular members. Sometimes a smaller forum is better than a larger one. Granted it's different since forums generally specialised in one topic, but don't forget the days where you didn't need to be a huge all-encompassing platform to be successful, especially when you're not trying to make money from it.
I hate to say this because it may be elitist, but it's been on my mind since joining yesterday: the fact that Lemmy is relatively unknown and relatively difficult to sign up to acts as a good filter at the moment. It's like the early days of the internet where you had to be a certain kind of nerd to have a computer and a modem. It's been great, like the old days.
This seems to be really dated, shouldn't really be promoting things like OpenOffice now.