Where I work in software development, we were about to undertake writing a pretty large application from scratch. Mostly, the company was a Java plus Spring shop with a few exceptions. One team wrote almost exclusively Python, for instance. But as far as I knew, there wasn’t any specific policy requiring the use of any particular language.

So as a team, we pushed to write our new project in Python. It was originally my idea, but my team got on board with it pretty quickly. Plus there was precedent for Python projects and Python was definitely appropriate for our use case.

The managers took it up the chain. The chain hemmed and hawed for months, but eventually made a more official policy that we had to use Java (and Spring).

I don’t think the lemmy.ml admins have been coy about it.

If you go to the lemmy.ml home page, at the bottom of the right column is a list of admins.

The first admin’s profile banner is a picture of Mao. And the second’s profile pic is a photo of Fidel Castro. The other two don’t have profile pics that are explicitly authoritarian communist and I haven’t had the patience to look through a whole lot of their posts or anything.

Just a couple of Reddit threads (via libreddit.hu) on the topic: one and two. Unfortunately what they link do doesn’t appear to be in the wayback machine as far as I’ve been able to tell.

We might be able to answer the question better if you named the “other platforms” you’re referring to. It doesn’t seem like an unusual amount compared to, for instance, how much communist/transgender content Reddit had back when Reddit wasn’t as evil as it is now. (Who knows what Reddit’s like now. I haven’t been back since the two-day boycott over the API pricing.)

All that said, some of the communist content here is tankies. (That is, authoritarian communists who spout CCP or other authoritarian communist regimes’ propaganda.) Some of the Lemmy instances (like latte.isnot.coffe and lemmy.ml) are run by tankies.

That said, a lot of the communist content here is grass-roots anarcho-communist advocacy by people like me who ideologically lean that way.

Trusted computing is back in a new form. :\

Maybe the thinking is that whatever that server was raided for may have been federated to other servers, making them also targets for FBI raids.

Edit: Looks like the admin was raided for participating in a protest and the Mastodon instance wasn’t the target at all, in which case why did they take that data at all?

What I’ve been hearing is that Infinite is planning to switch to a paid model and has basically negotiated an extension while they make the code changes necessary to start using the paid API model. But that extension will run out at some point and then to continue using Infinity, you’ll have to start paying.

Lately, when I’m looking for answers and my googling gives me a Reddit link, I pull up the actual reddit page in The Wayback Machine. Admittedly my sample size is small but it hasn’t failed me yet.

Some day, though, if Reddit goes down completely or otherwise becomes unavailable to search engines, it will be much harder to find Reddit content by Googling for it.

The other thing I think is a hidden gem of useful info on Reddit is the wikis. It seemed that even sites like Libreddit (when it worked) didn’t provide access to those.

There is The Archive Team. They still seem to be actively archiving Reddit (probably via web scraping, not any particular API.) I’m not sure if/how the results of Archive Team scrapes are made available to others, though.

Interesting. I’m not sure how that works with an Open Source app. Will the API key be in the source repo? Will there be a server that Infinity routes through that adds the API key to the request? Will future versions of Infinity be proprietary? I’ll probably look into it at some point.

I meant that I loaded up Infinity specifically to check and see if Infinity still worked or not. Not to access any particular Reddit content. But Infinity still worked for me after I first saw this thread.

Edit: Ah, and I just realized I might have misunderstood you, not the other way around. Sorry about that.

I’ve now been tricked twice into breaking my Reddit boycott just to check and see if Infinity still works or not, and it still does.

Maybe Infinity just has enough fewer users than something like Apollo that Infinity hasn’t reached the request limit to where it’s been shut off yet.

(I don’t actually mean I was tricked. ;) )

Given the lows to which Reddit has stooped lately, I wouldn’t be surprised to see Reddit respond to that by filing a lawsuit against the mod seeking nine figures in damages.

Which makes me hope even more somebody does it.

As one of the folks who came from Reddit when everyone else did, sorry. :(

It makes sense that any mass exedous from some other community will greatly change the destination community, and much of value will be lost in the process.

So, is there anything I can do to help preserve and embody what I’ve helped destroy? I’ll definitely keep in mind what you’ve said here about “toxicity, entitlement, and stupid challenges,” and I’ll learn more about federation and keep an open mind. Any other advice how we former Redditors can help keep what made Lemmy great before hordes of Redditors flooded it?

Any advice how we can help even enrich the Lemmy community and make it better than we first found it?

I don’t want to go back to Reddit. And I don’t want to be a pariah or paracite here. And I accept that those who were on Lemmy have wisdom to share that newcomers can benefit from.