Believe it or not there was once a lot of good will towards Reddit.

There’s an argument for having them spread out, so there’s not a sinole point of failure.

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).

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.

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/

Nope you can’t access them to discourage people from using Reddit, that’s the protest.

The whole point is that you can’t access them.

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.

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.

Fewer than I thought though, I would have thought the whole thing would have evaporated by now.

I presume they could but then those subs would be unmoderated which would be a huge legal risk.

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which leads casual users to still download it as a replacement to commercial office suites, despite being very out of date.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/

This seems to be really dated, shouldn’t really be promoting things like OpenOffice now.

Good on them to have stuck to their principles. For what it’s worth I messaged the mods over there asking them nicely to give us a link here. You can only ask.

The thing about that is everyone believes the way they don’t pronounce it is the posh way.

Where I grew up, calling it skon would get you labelled posh.

Ah, I’d been staring at that page for ages and missed it. Thank you.

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?

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 now think a duck would be the funniest. Obviously, the ultimate “middle-finger” to the old regime.