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Just a note:

At a glance

the first option is invite only the second redirects to another site, so might want to update in case that redirect stops the third is barely active and has a bunch of test posts the fourth I haven’t looked at yet, but it seems active. Not sure where it will lead.

I didn’t realize at first I had to create an account for each of those if I want to post, didn’t quite get the concept that you don’t have one universal username to log into all. That’s kind of annoying.

I see another person is struggling with the app, for a couple others it’s not working well on the browser of their phone. Since most people use phones/tablets these days I think adoption by the general population is going to be a problem.

From posts at reddit it seems a number of people from the OG sub are upset/frustrated that the sub has closed, or they were really struggling with it going dark, because it was a vital support system for them. It seems also people feel like the whole thing has been poorly communicated to them as to what the plan was, was it temporary or permanent, and when it might return if it was temporary? I’m still not sure what’s going on myself.

And the wiki and posts from the old reddit were important information people wanted to access. Fortunately my other support subs stayed open, there was some discussion among mods and community and the consensus was even if they wanted to protest, one in particular understood the nature of their support and realized going dark was a bad idea. I also noticed some subs went restricted so people could at least find old posts, because they realized that people need that place to go to or the information.

Additionally from my impression of trying to use lemmy myself, I think most people aren’t technical enough so they’re going to struggle with lemmy. I’m having a hard time with it myself and I’m somewhat technical, but I’m also tired and overwhelmed and burned out. This is something I could probably spare energy for if I weren’t dealing with perimenopause and other life things on top of it. I also feel like if there are communities that I can use easily with considerably less friction, I would rather be there.

I think for the users who can’t easily adopt lemmy (and I understand that, especially as someone overwhelmed and struggling with perimenopause/other stuff), it would be nice to at least have access to information from the wiki and old posts. Maybe reddit is wrong, but it seems like closing the sub is punishing the users rather than reddit itself. Would it be possible to at least switch the old sub to restricted?

Sorry if this is a bit rambly, I haven’t had much sleep and basically I am in the midst of catching up on what is going on and trying to process it all.