No worries. It’s all good. 😁

That’s Eric S Raymond (ESR) not Richard Stallman (RMS). ESR was an early and influencial voice in Free and Open Source Software (FOSS), advocating for a distinction between Open Source and Free Software, acknowledging the GNU Public License (GPL) would not work for all parties, some flexibility was need.

RMS is a GPL purist and against any form of compromise. Both made a huge impact and helped make the world and internet better. But they both contributed in very different ways.

Use a URL shortener like bitly.

https://bit.ly/3CqHoSB

I figure why wait for the building to fall, get out while I still can.

This is the way.

Well, that…plus popcorn.

I’m liking the Fediverse, and enjoying Beehaw/Lemmy/etc. I’m still learning this new world, but I’m loving it so far!

Everyone who used RIF should go BUY A COPY NOW, while you still can (if you haven’t already).

Show the Devs your love, and your thanks.

You can also email the devs to say your thanks in words. But your $2.99USD will be just as important!!

RIF was my way to get to Reddit. I will miss it terribly. So long, and thanks for all the fish.

My melancholy is tempered by the Fedirverse, Lemmy, and particularly, here at Beehaw! 😄

This feels like a better and nicer home, anyway. I’m sad for the loss, and this smaller community won’t have what the scale of Reddit’s user base could bring…but the nicer and happier community here has its own virtues.

It reminds me of the best of Slashdot, among other small and very valuable online communities of yore. 🙂

I don’t see a battle here, personally. I think this is just a downhill slope to armagedon. We’re watching Rome burn. We will likely see a continued increase of users flocking to Lemmy sites/nodes as more people become aware of what’s going on and its impact. Reddit will get UGLY, possibly on an exponential slope,.

Pass the popcorn. This is going to be one hell of a show.

(don’t get me wrong, it SUCKS. But we can’t do anything about Reddit’s foolish choices. We can only make the most of this opportunity for our new community here in the Fediverse. </imho>)

Same. RIF is / was my app. It’s a shame in some ways, but this place is better in many other ways. I’m happy here and look forward to seeing the Fediverse grow!

Fuck reddit, VCs, and greedy assholes.

I’m excited too, but we should all be chipping in with a little donation to help keep the lights on.

Posting content and comments are good, but a bit of cash to help our new community succeed is critical.

I shall be donating regularly, myself.

Slashdot, one of the first predecessors to reddit, had ratings good comments like, “insightful”, “informative”, “funny”, “redundant”, “off topic”, and more.

I always thought it was much better than just I’ll or down vote.

https://slashdot.org/faq/metamod.shtml

Wow. That was quite the read. Thank you very much for sharing that, it definitely clears up a few things that I had sort of intuited, but not really articulated in my own head.

What does it take to spin up an instance and federate? Can I just grab a docker image and go with some cloud Linux instance? What resources are we looking at for what headcount of users / level of engagement? (ie, posts and or connections per minute, etc)

This is the way it will go down.

It’s a shame.

Thank you for all the amazing things that you and the other founders have done!!

I only ever lurked on reddit, but here I feel welcome and relaxed enough to actually comment. Heck, I might actually post something somewhere! 😁

When the reddit bombshell dropped, I was sad and resigned to losing something. Beehaw has turned that completely around.

Now, I’m excited to be part of this blossoming community and eagerly look forward to something much better than reddit ever was. You and the others who at the groundwork are fantastic people!

Keep up the great work! I plan to be a part of this amazing thing, doing what I can from my little corner to help out.

I mostly live in the state of exhaustion, though sometimes I get to visit the land of dreams.

Eventually, I expect to move permanently into the undiscovered country…

…I’m just not sure when.

Good. Though I expect it won’t change a dammed thing. The Amina know what they’re doing, this is a purge of thoughtful culture do they can promulgate the drivel that facilitates ad revenue generating doom scrolling.