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.
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?
You are not. Generally a search in the Communities list would be enough to sync it up. Something odd on that instance.
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.
Really, how do I check on this? I’m on Lemmy.world and follow multiple topics on beehaw at the moment.
Relevant defederation thread (their reasoning is kinda bad imo)… https://beehaw.org/post/567170
Thanks for sharing this link. That clarified it nicely. I think its a bit odd considering they literally stopped approving new accounts at the same time as defederating. But again, they seem to have a clear vision in mind for all of this and that’s fine. On the flip side, this disqualified them from any large support community that might want to migrate over as the reach is going to be limited. Mastodon has the same issue with people asking to defederate the main instance all the time…
It’s not dumb. The current moderation tools were not enough for the mods to stop the incoming spam from lemmy.world. If things improve, they will de-defederate again.
but… the modlog is public… there wasnt a huge swathe of users banned or modded by beehaw
I may be wrong, but wasn’t it a pre-emptive measure because they were afraid of the open registrations on lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works?
So basically, shit reasoning. They defederated because something might happen. A lot of things might happen. That’s no reason to not do things in life.
It works from over here on kbin.social
Maybe give it a while? Sometimes it takes a while to populate across servers.
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
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.