pumpkin

Trust in admin(s).

You're trusting the person running your instance to do a good job, to provide good hardware and keep it running, to ensure it isn't de-federated from other instances, to provide Lemmy software updates, to not ban you or vanish one day.

Really, I don't know who my admins are, I've read a few posts and they seem pretty good, but I've not seen them before. But really, this is what it will come down to in the long run.

I agree actually, when I was joining Lemmy a few days ago I looked at a few instances and they all asked me to write a blurb why I wanted to join that instance. I get it and I think that's a good way of curating a community but I wanted to switch to Lemmy right then, not in a few days when my application is reviewed.

I ended up on sh.itjust.works which didn't ask for any of that and just gave me an account, but I think quite a few people like me won't want to wait until their application is approved.

How come you went back to tumbleweed?

From the Lemmy Github:

• Lead singer from Motörhead.
• The old school video game .
• The Koopa from Super Mario.
• The furry rodents.

I haven't really, I've always been a bit scared off by the alpha warning on kalpa

I prefer lichess, i like its analysis tools and the dev seems awesome.

Another normal amount of old checking in

I'm a opensuse tumbleweed user on my desktop and laptop. I also have an ubuntu home server.

I really like tumbleweed, but I have been thinking of switching to an immutable distro like guix or nix. I've tried guix several times and found it pretty good, but never stick with it due to its lack of KDE plasma support. Maybe I should give nix a try.

I'm wondering if there's anything motivated users of Lemmy can do to help out and make the transition for folks easy.

I want Lemmy to succeed and fir people trying it out to like it and stay.

Fix the deletion of comments so that the content is removed rather than just flagged as deleted.

Varsågod :)

To some degree, you're right, reddit probably won't change regardless of what mods do. If they really are feeling the blackout, as you'd say they'll probably just replace the moderators and open the community back up, rather than reverse their decision.

However, I feel like it's reddit doing the disservice to their users, not mods who are taking action by protesting. Ultimately, and if reddit do replace the mods and try and continue as normal, then it sends a stronger message to the community that reddit doesn't care about or respect them and it's not a not a good place to continue being.

In the dynamic between reddit the company running the site and the users, there is limited power users have against reddit which holds a lot of power, but protesting like what's happening now one of the main tools users have.