i'm still looking for a replacement to the r/python community that was [tyrannically] taken down by mods who hid a poll to do so under some vaguely named sticky post

that was the most useful place to find new python projects on the internet and i'm still peeved that the mods didn't propose any new place for the users to go

June 7: 'Should r/Python participate in the June 12th Blackout'

https://imgur.com/a/A2gfdmd

when they re-opened only mods could post, and it was a daily discussion thread

then there was a sticky, a poorly named one, where apparently there was another poll about what to do with the sub.

next comes a day when they plan to shut the sub down and the comment section is filled with people saying they didn't know this was happening and that the sticky was vaguely named.

so, no, i'm not referring to the june 7th post

* June 11: 'r/Python Will Black Out on June 12 at 00:00 UTC'

* June 12: 'By community vote, r/Python will Return to a Blackout'

* June 16: 'An Update about our Community' (text started with links, 'Here is a summary of the changes which prompted the recent Blackout. Here's our announcement for doing the Blackout....' and then 'Hence we wish to take another poll of community feedback...'

* June 28: 'By community vote, r/Python will Return to a Blackout'

Looks like the volunteer r/python mods were doing their best to keep everyone involved in the decision-making and informed of the outcomes while also juggling that volunteer activity for a for-profit company with their paying jobs and real-world responsibilities.

i'm confused about your post, is this 4 topics? was this all one long title? what was this except exactly as what i described it as?

and that's my point, it wasn't as transparent as it should have been

and if they want a blackout, so be it, but propose another place for people to aggregate. why destroy a community over this pettiness that's all but gone away since it happened? why does the same end result that happened in CrossValidated need to happen there too? what good does this do in the world?

its all passive aggressiveness when communication can literally solve everyones problem, especially when this was the issue with the reddit admins to begin with! why are they acting like the reddit admins by refusing to communicate properly? its all so ridiculous

It was one of many posts that the r/python volunteer mods made, giving everyone a chance to vote and discuss. Was it "hidden" as you say? I don't know - I don't think so, it was a vote-by-comment instead of reddit poll to reduce fakery, and it required some context so everyone knew what they were voting on.

Archive here: https://archive.is/WI5Ei

Good luck in your search for a new community. Perhaps drop in the discord server and see if anyone has suggestions for you. Link is on the sidebar of the archived page.

and if you archived the post later to include all the comments within, you'd see all the comments saying they didn't even know this was coming

and i probably won't need to find another community i'll just wait until these mods are dethroned by the admins

Here's an old, but handy guide to using internet forums (Posting And You): https://youtu.be/1t2mblcFQ-Q

then when an announcement was made about them shutting the sub down (post blackout), the thread was filled with people complaining that this wasn't a fair poll and that most weren't even aware it was there

Activity seems to have died down now that some larger Reddit apps have announced they're building dedicated Lemmy clients. Connect for Lemmy is pretty good already, Sync is coming out with an app in a few weeks, and there are other apps out there as well.

if you're going to take the "pain" of moving away from the network effect of your existing walled garden, surely it would better to move to something with a better governance model, like a federated solution? Lemmy is far from perfect but I have found it to provide a lot of what I looked for in Reddit's absence.

[I only really use Reddit on mobile, and so with the absence of decent mobile apps Reddit is effectively shut down for me]

In a similar fashion, the code is AGPLv3 so you can run your own instance in both cases

https://rings.social/comments shows the latest comments and I plan on adding a similar feature (new?) to the /r/popular multi-rings

[1]: https://rings.social/r/news

What does Rings offer over Lemmy?

Rings gives an API compatibility layer for Reddit that should make the transition from Reddit to Rings easier - if the app developers decide to switch their app endpoints.