AccidentalRenaissance has no active moderators due to Reddit's unprecedented API changes, and has thus been privated to prevent vandalism.

Resignation letters:

Openminded_Skeptic - https://imgur.com/a/WwzQcac

VoltasPistol - https://imgur.com/a/lnHSM4n

We welcome you to join us in our new homes:

https://kbin.social/m/AccidentalRenaissance

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/c/accidentalrenaissance

Thank you for all your support!

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[–] 348 points 3 years ago* (42 children)

Argh, why make 2 communities? >_< Pick one damnit :D

I'm going to the blahaj one

Anyway well done for recognizing the ship is rapidly disintegrating.

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  • [–] 103 points 3 years ago (13 children)

    I was thinking the same thing, it's counterintuitive to the whole point of Lemmy lol

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  • [–] 30 points 3 years ago (6 children)

    it's counterintuitive to the whole point of Lemmy lol

    Actually no, it is not. Having multiple smaller communities works to the benefit of users in the Fediverse. One server might be down, and people in those communities can find another community on a different instance to continue discussion until the community of their instance choice comes back up.

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  • [–] 88 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    I got a response from them on Reddit:

    We didn't know which platform would take off, and we were nervous that because Kbin and Lemmy are so similar one platform might shut down in some sort of consolidation down the road. Also when we made them, each had very serious drawbacks for our media (Lemmy needs a lot of clicking to access the media, while kbin turned any media that wasn't in a 3:4 aspect ratio into a funhouse mirror.) So each of us took a community and somewhere down the line we'll re-evaluate.

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  • [–] 39 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    Yeah, kind of a strange choice to split like that. Are they intending to start crossposting to both communities?

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  • [–] 61 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    Maybe they didn't realize lemmy and kbin can all visit the same community?

    I subscribed yesterday. Will have to check which one it is!

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    [–] 214 points 3 years ago (16 children)

    For everyone who told us that they’d never taken a single art class and they could mod this place better with their eyes closed… Well, consider this a golden opportunity! It’s going to be tricky doing it with your eyes closed ever since Reddit’s painfully botched rollout of “disability friendly” mod tools in their disasterpiece of a mobile app has caused nothing but crashes and bugs, but you seemed so confident in the many (many, many, many) times you’ve expressed this opinion that we can only assume you know something about modding that we don’t!

    Is such a fun line.

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  • [–] 37 points 3 years ago* (9 children)

    test comment.
    edit of test comment
    edit from culprit browser
    edit with only one add-on deactivated

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  • [–] 90 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (4 children)

    Oh my god that was annoying! But yes. Now, I am okay.

    Firefox wasn't letting me comment, reply to comments, or edit my comments. I even dragged my home instance's moderator into helping me debug which I feel terrible about. (Especially because I originally described it as a federation error, only later realizing that the glitch was happening on reddthat as well as federated instances.)

    After various debugging attempts, he told me to deactivate my extensions... which I hadn't tried for some reason... and it worked instantly. My Bionic Reader Firefox extension in particular turned out being the source of the problem. And now I feel like I've wasted my mod's time trying to debug something that he had no control over, but other than that? I'm okay.

    Thanks for asking.

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    [–] [B] 193 points 3 years ago (12 children)

    Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !accidentalrenaissance@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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    [–] 169 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (37 children)

    This is the sort of action I love to see. Reddit thinks they own the moderators who are working for free. They want slaves. Fuck them.

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  • [–] 119 points 3 years ago (14 children)

    From the very start, ever subreddit should have challenged Reddit and called their bluff. Go ahead, replace the mods for thousands of subreddits. If a few dozen are changed, that's no problem. Whatever. But thousands? Good luck.

    The whole protest seemed so half-hearted from the start. You don't go on strike with a set end-date in mind. You go on strike indefinitely until demands are met or a satisfactory compromise is made.

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  • [–] 92 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (3 children)

    I will say that the short blackout was enough to get me onto the Fediverse. I didn't even use the apps that would be affected by the API shutdown, so I never would have noticed the controversy without the blackout.

    But once the blackout was announced, I recognized how far reddit was willing to go in service of harvesting its users' data. And after that point, I just didn't feel good on the site anymore. (Granted, I first created an account on Mastodon because the people calling for blackouts never mentioned Lemmy. But still!)

    Between Facebook's notification system repeatedly failing to direct me to comment replies, Twitter DDoSing itself, and reddit turning into the Eye of Sauron (which, again, I would not have even noticed happening were it not for the short protest), it seemed like the perfect time to exit the sinking ship of corporate social media.

    Meaning they did something. Maybe they didn't avert the reddit apocalypse, but they still did something.

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  • [–] 27 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    There was never a chance for compromise. This was about money; a premature, over blown, knee jerk, pie-in-the-sky hope to cash in on free expert input based on decades of good will interactions performed for free by people who cared about their subject matter.

    I deleted every comment I'd ever made and left pretty much immediately. They can eat their own shit.

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    [–] 106 points 3 years ago* (17 children)

    Oh damn, that's us!!

    We'd wondered where the nearly 1.9k subscribers came from completely out of nowhere!

    So, yeah, a lot of people are hating on us for creating one of Kbin and one on Lemmy, but we had our reasons: Basically, neither handled images very well and we saw that these two services did basically the same thing and that typically leads to the weaker project getting cancelled down the line, so we decided our safest bet was just to make one of each, just in case. Better safe than sorry.

    We might consolidate them later, but for now just pick whichever you like best. :)

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    [–] 94 points 3 years ago (25 children)

    !accidentalrenaissance@lemmy.blahaj.zone for us lemmy folks

    ...why did they make two comms though when kbin and lemmy work together?

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  • [–] 72 points 3 years ago (23 children)

    Maybe because, like me, they don't understand the difference

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    [–] 91 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    That's pretty daring of them to do, they're risking their severance package by so publicly making their former employer look so bad. Oh wait...

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    [–] 71 points 3 years ago (29 children)

    I'm so happy to see this community join us here, especially not being a mega-community with the same icon. We know the one on here.

    I feel the more niche communities migrations will have a bigger impact. That something like politics or whatnot wouldn't. Like even Fuckcars is here, because Fuck cars.

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    [–] 68 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Welcome to LemmyVille it’s nice here we have

    • dietary advice
    • antique meme
    • screenshot
    • bean

    I love accidental renaissance one of my favourite subs x

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    [–] 60 points 3 years ago (21 children)

    For those of you browsing from lemmy.world here is how to access it and stay logged in:

    https://lemmy.world/c/accidentalrenaissance@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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    [–] 59 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    Okay, those are some mods I can respect.

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    [–] 56 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    Feel kind of honored. One of the posts that the founding mod pulled over was a pic of my dog.

    https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/564838

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    [–] 51 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    I wish every single subreddit would follow suit.

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    [–] 43 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Their heart was at the right place... But they didn't really understand federation huh. Splitting their communities like that is asking for less engagement and more user confusion. Just create it on Lemmy, interact with it using your Kbin user, and then it will federate and you can still provide the Kbin link if you so desire.

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    [–] 32 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Is blahaj.zone getting hugged to death? Link don't work

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    [–] 29 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    This has been awesome. I’m finding out about communities I’ve never known about but starting with Lemmy to follow. Thanks Reddit for making all of the worst decisions all at once.

    I REALLY like it here the most. After a couple weeks, I’m barely missing it over there (I really miss Apollo, not Reddit, thank you to Voyager for providing a similar experience).

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    [–] 27 points 3 years ago (21 children)

    It’s clear that people prefer Lemmy over Kbin, for some reason. Over 2k users in the Lemmy community vs. only 900 on Kbin.

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    [–] 27 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (7 children)

    Test

    😂 You all are funny

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    [–] 24 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Good on them, I was subscribed to that subreddit for the longest time and I'm glad to see they've made the transition. I'd love to see r/AskHistorians make the transition too, as that's an amazing subreddit with great information.

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