I’ve not done this yet, but what data do reddit delete if you go down this route? Do they attempt to anonymize the data or do they actually expunge any content you’ve contributed?

This is huge, I don’t have statistics but surely the most popular third party app.

I really hope reddit is hurt a lot by this move they’re doing. It feels like it’s probably too late for them to walk it back and that’s probably a good thing. As much as I really enjoy a lot of the communities over there, I don’t think it’s healthy they remain on reddit, they clearly don’t have the best interests of their users now, if they ever did. I know they’ve lost me and a lot of people who are moving over to lemmy, but I do hope a lot more follow and this hurts them.

Yep. Fuck him and reddit. I hope they realise their mistake and also realise it’s too late and they’ve fucked up.

/r/sweden /r/languagelearning /r/svenska /r/girlgamers and /r/witchesvspatriarchy

Opensuse Tumbleweed.

I use it because I want a up to date stable system and it seemed like a pretty good option. I’ve been on it for a few years and really like it. I have tried to switch to Guix several times with however never quite stuck, mostly due to its kde plasma support. I think it’s getting better recently though which is nice. Maybe I should try switching to nix instead which offers a lot of the same sorts of things but with mature kde plasma support and a wider package offering.

The short answer is no, you dont.

Think of this like email, you sign up to a mail provider (gmail, yahoo, fastmail, etc) or even if you’re feeling up to it run you own email server with you own domain. You can then use that account to send emails to anyone regardless of which provider they picked and anyone can send you email too.

Lemmy (and ActivityPub, the underlying protocol) works the same. ActivityPub under the hood even uses the same concept of an inbox and outbox. You pick your provider and you can comment, post, etc. to anywhere regardless of which instance the other users or community is on.

If you see a post on another instance (e.g. Beehaw) you can just comment in the webui or app and it’ll just work.

There are two mobile apps, one for Android and one for iOS. Check here: https://join-lemmy.org/apps/

ActivityPub is similar to email in a lot of ways but has some key differences. One of them is it’s based around an “activity” feed where users can initially “create” posts/comments/etc. It also supports other activities though such as “update” (edits) or “delete” which are propagated across instances which have the content.

It should be that you can post a delete activity and the origional object (comment/post) is replaced with what ActivityPub calls a “Tombstone” which is basically just a place holder, this delete activity should be then federated across to other instances.

Reminder to folk to erase the content of their comments too, reddit shows up a lot in google searches thanks to the content people post. It’d be good to take that away as best we can. I’m going to be deleting mine later today too.

Some have, some haven’t.

Two which haven’t are /r/sweden and /r/languagelearning hopefully they’ll come soon.